Here we go again - M&S woes

Rest assured that, once M&S are selling something, the Top Shop generation have moved on to something else .

I`ve been wondering about the whole jegging/legging thing. Am I too old to wear them under a (very) long top? Sometimes I think it would be so comfortable but then I wonder if people would just think "why is that wifey wearing a dress and trousers". Dilemma! Shopping in M&S tomorrow............

Don't forget to remove the paper hankies before they go into the washing machine

After regularly being rude about M&S, I have been shopping there in trumps this autumn. Mind you, it is the dull unexciting items I have been buying, 4 pairs of jeggings, in different fabrics but 3 of them are black and 1 pair cavalry twill colour. A particular feature of them is that they all have pockets, for paper hankies and house keys.

I had been warned by at least two people that there was a charge for using the toilets on board! Obviously an urban myth, but i must have deprived her of a bonus when i declined her offer to charge me £60 to change our seats. The flight crew may prove to be nicer and may be charm personified.
To bring this more back on track, I have usually found M&S staff in store and on the telephone to be very pleasant and helpful.

Ryanair charge for everything they can but I was amused on my last flight with them when during the pre-flight safety talk the cabin crew announced where the toilets were and that they were FREE!!

With Ryanair as others have said you MUST check in on-line unless you want to be charged an extortionate amount. Other airlines have different rules.

Things must have changed in the couple of years since I last used Ryanair Rose but when I last checked in at an airport checkin desk in January there was no charge. That was Flybe.

Anya they charge £70 per person to check in at the airport.
Have done it, messed it up and when I phoned to try to alter seats was told it was £15pp to cancel what I had done and £15pp to check in again!! £60 in total!
When I very nicely asked how much it was now to use the onboard toilets she told me she had had a trying day, that I was rude and she put the phone down.
Really looking forward to these flights!

Rose I've only once tried to check in online (with Flybe) and it was a horrific experience I don't wish to repeat. I just queue up at the check in desks now.

As they're always under trousers or jeans nobody really sees them and a quick tug usually enables me to "pull up my socks" as my mum used to tell me to do!

Soutra how do you get the knee highs to stay up? I remember walking along a road and feeling my knee highs rapidly creeping down until both were a bundle at my ankles. I had to step out of them and continue.

As if rosequartz!! I got sympathy but that was all!

However despite my earlier criticism I did msnage to find some inexpensive nut adequate cord jeans and a navy blue Paddington Bear duffle coat- oh and industrial quantities of opaque tights and knee highs for the winter .

Oh dea, Soutra, hope you mend soon. Did they put it in the accident book?
Not what you went in for. I hope they gave you a really nice ready meal to take home so that you didn't have to cook.

The revenge of M&S or Marks strikes back!
M&S food hall last night, I managed an unrehearsed and undignified nose dive which has resulted in a ballooning left knee, a swollen (staved?) right ring finger a jarred wrist and a nasty bruise just below my collar bone
No broken bones but bruised dignity and generally feeling a little stiff and fragile today. Was it something I said?
The staff were very kind and helpful for what it is worth

I remember St Margaret's - the label in my vests when I was a child.

You can still buy Ladybird childrenswear via the Woolworths online site I think. DGDs wear Ladybird from the online shop.
www.woolworths.co.uk/kids-clothes/ladybird/e/b/12472,4294958353.end

A bit off the subject but yes Ana, Ladybird was at Woolworths. I remember going to Chester to do some shopping and discovered that Woolworths was having a closing down sale. I bought so many things (including Ladybird clothing for my grand children) that I couldn't go to any more shops and staggered back to the train with all my booty.

No, I don't remember St Margaret's, although I certainly do remember St Michael! (And Ladybird - wonderful quality and good value childrenswear. Was that Woolworth's?)

A bit off the point, but reading these threads made me remember, many years ago, St Margaret's was a M&S brand, along with St Michael. Does anyone else remember those dresses and blouses with St Margaret on the label? Of course, back in those days M&S goods were made in the UK, and proudly advertised as such. Quality you could depend on. Hmmmm.

Rose I've flown to Ireland several times with Ryanair and they're no worse than any other airline.
Anya
Beginning to wonder, though, trying to check in online (extremely frustrating) - why should it cost £40 to sit next to someone who made a booking at the same time, both on the same ticket? I won't tell you what DH was calling them! I thought if I checked in both at the same time the seats would be together, but no, they are 11 rows apart.

I have flown with lots of airlines, more longhaul (and Easyjet who are wonderful in comparison), and haven't come across this before.

Thanks, tiggy I will do that!

Liz46 I had the same problem today in Staines with things on the wrong hangers. So annoying to have to keep finding hidden labels to check sizes isn't it? Marks used to be so good at that sort of thing. However on a positive note I found some dark linen trousers in my size reduced from £38 to £14 and they took another 10% off at the till. Result!

Take your own butties rose and also buy a drink AFTER you have been through security. Sometimes in airports if you buy a newspaper you can have a bottle of water free - bargain ! Food and drinks on board are very expensive.

I had £100 gift card from. M and S which my son gave me and I spent £70 in the food hall and £30 on a shirt for OH. Nothing I liked in the womenswear. Which is a bit sad. Surely I come into the demographic they should be targeting? (Older, a bit of disposable income, willing to spend on unnecessary clothes etc.....) . This discussion now seems to include Ryanair which I travelled on last week. No problems; on time and now they give you an allocated seat so no rushing to grab seats etc. what's not to like?

Just back from a visit to M&S Liverpool with my daughter. I was looking through the trousers for my size and she warned me that the sizes on the hangers were incorrect. I checked and she was right. Quite a lot of them were on the wrong hangers so we had to look for our colour label on the actual garment.

My daughter did pick out a couple of things that I would not have picked out for myself and I am pleased with them. I have a rather smart, casual purple jacket, black trousers and also a dark coloured dressing gown as I keep spilling drops of coffee on my white one when the cat jumps on my knee.

I had a £8 of vouchers from using my M&S card in Asda so, in the end, my bill came down from £85 to £60. Not bad.

Rose I've flown to Ireland several times with Ryanair and they're no worse than any other airline.

Thank you"!
That was one worrying aspect, papa, they won't accept middle names so the name on the ticket is slightly different to the one on the passport.
Going through Bristol who are always jobsworths at security!
I will warn DH not to moan or make a joke about his trousers falling down without his belt....
Can you take your own butties or will they be confiscated?