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The incomparable Groucho Marx wrote: "I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Slightly different version from a far lesser mortal: The new tactic of expunging...
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We have some storage jars, Fresh&Easy by Leifheit - excellent vacuum lid when new, but a couple of years in, the rubber seal seems to have worn out, as they’re no longer a tight fit. Anyone come...
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Mrs B is flying Luton - Belfast. EasyJet are now saying she might not be able to use her photo driving licence, and needs a passport(!) And that she should 'phone the British embassy!' (She's Irish,...
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Mrs B will be in Ireland for a day or two. Our mobiles are SIM only, pay-as-you-go. Can she text/call me from Ireland (and me-her) just by putting 44 in, or do we have to use some other code? Ta....
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Just watching The Producers on TCM (cable). Hilarious as ever, but either I'm getting old (no question) or there were bits missing. I was sure there was a scene when somehow a neighbouring lot broke...
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Bought a dirt-cheap DVD from eBay. It’s the complete works of George Eliot, on Audiobooks, and they’re saved as MP3 audio files. Can’t put the disc into a CD machine (it IS a DVD), but on my...
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Talking of putting in spaces in compound user names, such as: book binder, tea cake 44, naomi 24, tora tora tora, sparkly kid, buen chico, pasta freak, lady birder, fender 62, mamya lynne, mushroom...
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Watching an antiques programme on the tele, I was struck by the huge amount of time, effort, energy and money that’s been put into the making of pointless objects. And still is! If all the people...
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Direct Line want us to pay them £250 BEFORE they’ll even look at our burglary claim! This is the excess. Is this legal? Is it normal? What choice do we have? BB...
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Anyone know an easy way of getting hold of free access to All4? We keep getting pushed down the path of free ads for £4-ish per month - all we want is free access! Ta. BillB...
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We are extremely low users of our Samsung phones. 1000 minutes yakking would probably do us for a year, not a month. We do text, but again not teenage-levels. Our data drawdown would be minimal -...
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Following our recent burgled shed incident, local old Bill says a noisy door alarm might help. Any recommendations? The shed is 35 metres from the flat, so we need some sort of remote off switch - not...
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How picky do insurance companies get about a shed break-in - they jemmied the padlock off the door and had it away with several hundred quids worth of tools etc. No receipts, of course, and the geezer...
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Is there anything on the market to stop mattresses shifting sideways off the bed? Something that clamps to the side of the bed, towards either end, which holds the mattress shifting. Ta. BillB...
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I've replaced the 'sweep' strips under our shower doors, and it helps prevent water from flooding out into the bathroom, but not quite all... Where the two doors meet, there is a bit of a gap, and...
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Most British writers (mainly the men) seem to have been awful husbands or partners, deserting them, having them locked up in asylums, whatever. None (if any) led 'ordinary' lives - caring for their...
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Why do so many starling hang about in Asda's car park (Wembley way)? They perch on trolleys, and are amazingly tame. What are they up to? BB...
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Or at least round here they are (fairly affluent NW London suburb). Won’t take this, don’t want that... Books? Only if they’re in as-new condition(!) When I think of the poverty in the world,...
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Took a bag full of unwanted medicines to chemist for disposal. Only to have ‘Trulicity’ rejected as it comes in preloaded hyperdermic syringes. They wont take anything with ‘sharps’ - we have...
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Mrs B challenges me to come up with a Philip Larkin poem which is happy, full of fun. I love Larkin, with his insights into life’s misery, but can’t think of any of his poems that fit the bill....

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