Just checked my receipts back to 2021 and every month is accounted for. I don’t know how SuperU’s computer customer account system works, but with so many customers and so many outlets, mistakes must happen from time to time.
They obviously don’t like us knowing stuff though, I always say yes to the age old question ‘vous voulez le ticket?’ with a firm yes but the printing is so small that I have to get a mag glass and stand under a floodlight to read it. 
We watched a TV programme last night - Nordic Train at Christmas.
It was really interesting and I made a mental note to check up on one of the companies that was mentioned - ‘Dale of Norway’ - https://eu.daleofnorway.com/ 
They make beautiful knitwear besides other items. Their factory is really modern and the quality of finishing on their jumpers is top knotch. Every jumper is hand finished and there are no lumpy seams because of how they work the item.
But it will be a while before I buy something from them. The prices are rather high but I suppose you get what you pay for. They also have a Sale section which gives a 50% discount. They do ship outside of Norway and the cost of 12€ is very good.
Take a look at their products. They’re really lovely.
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I did, & they are.
However, saying…
…is quite an understatement! Even at 50% off they are hugely expensive for someone like me who will snag such things on the first nail/splinter/goat horn that they come near.
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I’ve got three of these, the oldest one, which I’m wearing right now is fifteen years old; it was half the current price back then, but they’re still great value today.
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This is indeed good value. My wife knits me pullovers made from Icelandic wool Alafoss lopi. Wonderful wool that has become a lot more expensive these last few years.
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Probably due to the massive uptake of crochet and knitting 
I’ve just looked and actually its not too bad at €7.50/100 g. I’ve seen far worse for hand dyed and spun stuff!!!
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I have just finished knitting an Aran sweater in genuine Aran wool with wool from Kerry Mills.
I still have the pattern for a cable coat and hat in Lopi wool that I made for my daughter Sarah when she was two.
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My mum was always knitting Aran and Fair Isle Sweaters when we were young, they were indestructible except when we grew out of them.
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This was repeated again last night and I saw the Dale factory and how they make their jumpers etc so you can see why they are expensive.
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Mum did the same. They were passed down the five children,with me being the fifth at the end of the line.
In my early days in France, I was strapped for cash and counted every penny coming in and every penny going out, and I used Microsoft Excel to help keep a tally. Very useful, but didn’t think Microsoft Excel had the ability to rise to world championships. What’s that all about?
There is more to Microsoft Excel than meets the eye apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/06/experience-i-am-the-excel-world-champion
The introduction in the video sounds more like the beginning of a Dart’s match. Hate it!
I meant to type the word ‘better’ but accidentally typed ‘beeter’ which wasn’t spell checked by Microsoft Word.
‘Beeter’ doesn’t appear in my 1998 copy of The New Oxford Dictionary but does appear in the online version as an obsolete word last recorded in the late 1500s.
Are out-of-date obsolete words preserved in Microsoft Word for some reason?
Hhmm - Word spellchecks ‘beeter’ but not ‘Beeter’…?
OED’s only evidence for beeter is from 1578, in a dictionary by Thomas Cooper, theologian and bishop of Winchester.
ie. someone who eats beetroots, or grows them, or smashes them to bits. Obviously a sad loss to our modern day vocabulary.
I’m going to start using it, just need to decide to which category I fall into. 
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Claude AI tells me this – “The word beeter almost certainly appears as the English gloss for a Latin term, and given its form — an agent noun, “one who beets” — it most plausibly derives from the old verb to beet, meaning to kindle, mend, or replenish a fire (from Old English bētan). A beeter would therefore be someone who tends or stokes a fire, or more broadly one who repairs or makes good something.”
ChatGPT tells another story – “The form beeter in Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae (by Thomas Cooper) is not a distinct lexical item in its own right—it is almost certainly a variant spelling of better.”
In other words, simply a misprint, mind you it has certainly justified the thread title. 
Just stumbled across this thread.
I suppose that a person who was rather good at smashing beetroots to bits (pourquoi ?) …
… would be a ‘better beeter basher’.
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There may be a number of possible variants. 
You’re very welcome to suggest something better (but I’m too modest to suggest beat that).
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