Marshalls lunar paving

Patio flagstones (slabs), concrete flags, stone flags including yorkstone and imported flagstones.
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Nigel Walker
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Post: # 7072Post Nigel Walker

Anyone remember the Diarmuid Gavin display at Glee last year. It is in Marshalls new 2005 brochure.
Just been told by the local BM that it costs over £1500.00 inc vat.

I imagine there will be a massive rush to buy this bargain !!!! (just joking ) £1500 they must be joking.

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Post: # 7075Post the manager

yea saw it at glee couldnt miss it there stand was next to ours .any way i could do it cheaper with a good stil saw and a piece of chalk

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Post: # 7091Post Tony McC

Mr Manager - are we playing a guessing game? You keep dropping hints to your real identity, but won't drop the mask completely. If you wish to remain an apprentice for a while longer, that's fine by me, but if you cointact me by PM or email, I have it in my power to upgrade you to "Manufacturer", or even "Manager"!

1500 quid is a bit more than I was told. 1200+VAT was the price 'target' mentioned before Christmas by a certain nationwide stockist.

That's still 1190 quid more than I'd be willing to pay! It's not what to consider to be paving. It's a garden feature, like a bird bath or a water feature. It can't be easily combined with other paving; it's not infinitely extendable; it can't be used as a path or terrace - it's a one-trick pony, a "conversation piece", intended to be shown off to the sister-in-law or the neighbours in a pathetic attempt to engender envy. All that can be done with it is to have it plonked in some corner of the garden, perhaps with a linking path constructed using a non-matching material (because there are no matching materials). It's too small for a main patio, too expensive to use as a bin stand.

I've no doubt that it will sell, but it's never going to be stampede-inducingly popular. It'll appeal to the same eejits that buy Alan Titchmarsh trugs, Ainsley Harriott sausages (Prick with a fork, as it says on the package!) and Laurence Long-Sleeves curtains. It's all about buying into some false notion of celebrity rather than style, function and utility. We all know the adage about fools and their money!
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