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Need to sort out cheap transport down to London, whaddya reckon'll be best bet? buying a train ticket now (about a month in advance) or leaving it until closer to the date?

 

oh and the last things I bought were the Guardian, the Independent and the Times (Can't just steal them from the local coffee shop anymore :rolleyes: )

 

Use thetrainline.com. If you can select the exact trains and times you want you can get separate outward and return tickets for much cheaper than you'd pay for a return on the day or closer the time.

 

Use thetrainline.com to find out the train times and provider. Then go to the provider's site and buy them cheaper. thetrainline add a % on top. Saved about £15 on my last trip down south by getting my tickets direct from Virgin.

 

Edit: BTW, buy them early. Not only do you get a better chance of a decent seat (with plug if you are using a laptop) but the tickets are cheaper.

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I've used trainline before and they lost my registration, which meant I lost the £20 and had to buy the ticket on the day which cost me a fucking fortune, so it's likely I'd just check trainline for services and pootle to the station itself.

 

was mainly asking if anyone knew of a sneaky website which does even better deals and whatnot

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You don't really get that with trains, no. And booking early is definitely the way to go, either way.

 

EDIT: Although many operators - NXEC (ex-GNER), for example - only release their cheap tickets 3 months beforehand, say, so there are limits on "early" too.

 

Actually, the whole thing sucks baals.

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Cheers m'dears. Quite excited about the whole thing.

 

Getting onto Gumtree and the like for a house-share around Clapham/Streatham area, have the outside chance of a one bedroom flat in Primrose Hill for under £100 a week which is amazing but like I say it's an outside chance.

 

All this because of listening to one song at the wrong/right time.

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Cheers m'dears. Quite excited about the whole thing.

 

Getting onto Gumtree and the like for a house-share around Clapham/Streatham area, have the outside chance of a one bedroom flat in Primrose Hill for under £100 a week which is amazing but like I say it's an outside chance.

 

All this because of listening to one song at the wrong/right time.

Phew, we won't quite be neighbours. :rolleyes:

 

Good luck with it all though. If you need someone to guide you round the wacky world of soft furnishings at IKEA Croydon... :wub:

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Didn't you buy this fucker yesterday?

Or is it a daily subscription?

 

Erm, you're quoting yesterdays post Einstein. :rolleyes:

 

It's been a long day and after reading just one of the threads that fop has been posting in has done my head in!

And that's Albert to you sonny :wub:

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Cheers m'dears. Quite excited about the whole thing.

 

Getting onto Gumtree and the like for a house-share around Clapham/Streatham area, have the outside chance of a one bedroom flat in Primrose Hill for under £100 a week which is amazing but like I say it's an outside chance.

 

All this because of listening to one song at the wrong/right time.

Phew, we won't quite be neighbours. :rolleyes:

 

Good luck with it all though. If you need someone to guide you round the wacky world of soft furnishings at IKEA Croydon... :wub:

 

Martin, you know what else Gumtree is good for?

http://www.gumtree.com/london/guys-seeking...ting_206_1.html

I'd be careful!

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Cheers m'dears. Quite excited about the whole thing.

 

Getting onto Gumtree and the like for a house-share around Clapham/Streatham area, have the outside chance of a one bedroom flat in Primrose Hill for under £100 a week which is amazing but like I say it's an outside chance.

 

All this because of listening to one song at the wrong/right time.

Phew, we won't quite be neighbours. :rolleyes:

 

Good luck with it all though. If you need someone to guide you round the wacky world of soft furnishings at IKEA Croydon... :wub:

 

IKEA is where chavs-in-denial do their arguing, I'm all about the thrift stores me, mate. Nowt gives me a bigger boner than picking up a battered old rocking chair. :)

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Wanting to own the Seinfeld complete collection... been downloading some rips off torrents, but thinking might as well get the proper thing:

 

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£83 from amazon.. worth getting?

 

Awesome!

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IKEA is where chavs-in-denial do their arguing, I'm all about the thrift stores me, mate. Nowt gives me a bigger boner than picking up a battered old rocking chair. :wub:

Even by your standards, fucking hell man :rolleyes:

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IKEA is where chavs-in-denial do their arguing, I'm all about the thrift stores me, mate. Nowt gives me a bigger boner than picking up a battered old rocking chair. :)

Even by your standards, fucking hell man :rolleyes:

Suddenly I'm doubly glad we won't be near neighbours. :wub:

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IKEA is where chavs-in-denial do their arguing, I'm all about the thrift stores me, mate. Nowt gives me a bigger boner than picking up a battered old rocking chair. :)

Even by your standards, fucking hell man :rolleyes:

I may have been joking? :wub:

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IKEA is where chavs-in-denial do their arguing, I'm all about the thrift stores me, mate. Nowt gives me a bigger boner than picking up a battered old rocking chair. :)

Even by your standards, fucking hell man :rolleyes:

I may have been joking? :)

I realised that, you tit :wub:

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Don't try and cover your tracks now alex me lad, you bought it and that's that/

 

You're a mug and I'm some kind of subtle-joke king!

 

:rolleyes:

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Don't try and cover your tracks now alex me lad, you bought it and that's that/

 

You're a mug and I'm some kind of subtle-joke king!

 

:rolleyes:

I was laughing at the snobbery man Dave re: the IKEA comment. Fwiw I don't believe you've ever bought a rocking chair, let alone got a stiffy over it. As I know you say owt but your prayers :wub: I should have bolded the first sentence.

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So Dave's flatmate has finally got shut of him eh? :rolleyes:

I left that place fucking ages ago man, couldn't bear living with a bloke who's idea of haute cuisine was adding piccalili to everything. (also the girls who he met on internet dating sites were bigger, hairier and scarier than GM)

 

moved in with some mates for the short term.

 

 

(by the by, isn't it "Get Shot" of someone? :wub: )

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