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Elle, no I don't expect Rickie to win.
I suspect he is just approaching next weeks Open in a professional manner by playing similar links to the one he will be on next week.
He is playing in shirt sleeves, so must be enjoying our Scottish breezes! Not bad for a Florida resident.
Mind you I think the vast majority of the top golfers live in Florida!
I shall have to pick a lady to win the US Open which starts today. Either Lydia Ko or Paula Creamer?

OK, I shall now say 'thank you' to Chrisg, Rusty and Elle for your advice which,.........I did not follow !!!

Nothing against you, honest! Simply I either could not find one in Amazon, the other had delivery was much too late or, and that is an important factor, the price quoted was in £ only

Now, the Pound is strong, or rather the Euro has gone down (which is a good thing for business, eg for exporting French products, but of no help to me today).
Hence the price was not that competitive.

After a good look I went for an HP (again !) but of a higher standard, and it is a printer, a photo-copier, a scanner and a fax - really multifunction. I also bought a good reserve of cartridges. With my Premium Amazon account, delivery is free and I will receive it tomorrow ! Just what I wanted.

I am one happy lady!

Thanks again.



I therefore went for

Well done, Pigale!
Sounds just perfect!
And Amazon are a good company to deal with.
I hope you and HP will be very happy together!

ELLE and all,
Are you in the "how very dare you" camp?
And how does "very" get in there?
And does it actually make sense?

Seems to be a fairly new saying, to me.

Hi, Rusty!
It's not an expression I've ever heard before?
So I've just googled it ...apparently it's an expression that Brits are now saying (?!) when they are pretending to be offended! and it comes from the Catherine Tate show!
This is not a show that I have ever watched so cannot vouch for the veracity of that statement!
But seemingly the phrase is used by one of the characters, Derek Faye, in her sketch show?
Maybe someone who has actually seen the show can comment further?

You are spot-on, Elle and very funny CT is too!

I did not know it came from a TV show!
Always learning!
Elle, you did not tell me Martina Hingis is playing tomorrow?

Sorry, Rusty! I knew Martina and Leander Paes were through to the Mixed Doubles Quarter finals, but I haven't seen them play at all this year - and didn't even know when the match was scheduled!
So it's tomorrow then?
Have you been out with Miss L-Plate already? did you have a good time? (bacon roll or ice-cream?)
If you're free now, Maria is about to start her match against Serena.
I may not get to watch it as my granddaughter should be here in a few minutes.....!
Catch you later.....

Hi Pigale
I have that printer and it is very easy to use,I am finding Amazonis very good for almost anything last week I bought sandals. live mealworms. china butter dish.2 Kidl books and something to do with mu husbands milling machine all at 2.30am and on most next day delivery.I can even get them to collect if I need to return.Weather fine and dry just right

~Agreed Doglet, it's a superb company, No 1 in the world for online shopping.

I also sell on Amazon, so far only DVDs that, having watched them, I did not wish to keep. All good stuff.