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Mira Sport Shower.

The incoming mains water filter has to be changed on this shower very often, or the heat regulation goes wonky. My old shower worked perfectly for years and didn't have a filter so far as I know. I'm...
12:20 Wed 26th May 20213 answers, last by The Builder 13:27 Wed 26th May 2021
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Wasps

I live in West Cornwall, and I haven't seen ANY wasps at all this year. Record numbers of bees and butterflies, but not a single wasp, why is that?
12:29 Tue 21st Aug 201817 answers, last by greenrook 12:04 Wed 22nd Aug 2018
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Posting A Newspaper Overseas

what's the best and cheapest way to send a small, lightweight local newspaper from the UK to Germany? Folded up, rolled into a tube, or what?
14:46 Wed 04th Oct 20176 answers, last by greenrook 16:30 Thu 05th Oct 2017
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What Chillies Are These?

Hi, I bought 2 very small plants from the Church plant sale, and grew them on, on the porch windowsill. They now each have about a dozen very small fruits, about an inch long and shaped like a tiny...
18:56 Fri 04th Aug 20173 answers, last by Old_Geezer 07:40 Sat 05th Aug 2017
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Mauricio Macri

It seems very likely that Macri will become President of Argentina. However, there is a deafening silence about his attitude towards the Falklands question. He seems never to have uttered on the...
02:50 Mon 23rd Nov 20151 answer, last by magpie 19:44 Wed 25th Nov 2015
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Telegraph Crossword 27917

Trollope novel in Churchill's retreat? Two words, t?e / ?a?d?n. The garden or Tea garden by the looks of it, but can't see why, perhaps someone else can? Thanks
19:46 Sat 26th Sep 20158 answers, last by greenrook 22:02 Sat 26th Sep 2015
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Clementine Tree From Pip.

Hello expert plant people. Just for fun, I planted some Clementine pips in ordinary compost and stuck them on the kitchen windowsill. 2 of them germinated, one grew very tall and leggy, and didn't...
00:58 Sat 08th Aug 20154 answers, last by Buenchico 21:16 Sat 08th Aug 2015
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Quote About The English

Who was it said 'the only thing worse than English art is English music'? I may have got it the wrong way round
12:26 Tue 21st Jul 20158 answers, last by Peter Pedant 23:15 Fri 14th Aug 2015
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American-Style T-Shirts

Some American staff people, like police and customs officers etc., wear a T-shirt (or undershirt?) under their uniform shirt. These T-shirts have a high neck which goes straight across the base of the...
10:22 Mon 27th Apr 20156 answers, last by retrocop 12:06 Mon 27th Apr 2015
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Cornwall To Lower Saxony

Hello All - has anyone any ideas about travelling from West Cornwall to the Hannover area without flying? My wife also refuses to do it by car, so the journey would have to be by coach and ferry and...
01:30 Sat 11th Apr 201510 answers, last by greenrook 19:55 Mon 13th Apr 2015
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England V. France

Just watching the Rugby from Twickers, I notice that the French players have a small St. George's flag on the middle of their jerseys. What's that about, a courtesy to the hosts or what?
19:03 Sat 21st Mar 20157 answers, last by greenrook 11:03 Tue 24th Mar 2015
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Is This Gold?

Don't know where to ask this, but there are always knowledgeable people in ChatterBank, so can anyone tell me how I can test an article of jewellery I suspect to be gold? The piece is filigree work,...
17:04 Mon 09th Mar 20155 answers, last by Peaspeculiars 20:20 Mon 09th Mar 2015
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Hedge Trimmer

Hello everyone, I have been given an almost-new hedge clipper with a short lead terminating in a 2-pin European type plug. Can I just extend the lead and fit a conventional 3-pin plug, and ignore the...
19:04 Wed 11th Feb 20154 answers, last by ToraToraTora 12:22 Fri 20th Feb 2015
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Hp Printer Misbehaving

Good evening, we have a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart C4280 printer, about 8 years old, always been reliable (moderate domestic use) but is now refusing to work, telling me there are paper jams, carriage...
18:43 Tue 27th Jan 20158 answers, last by TWR 18:28 Thu 29th Jan 2015
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Tesco

I read that Tesco are considering closing their pension scheme as a money-saving measure. What does that mean, that they will not accept new staff members into the scheme? Sorry to sound a bit dim.
15:36 Thu 08th Jan 201511 answers, last by Peter Pedant 20:13 Fri 09th Jan 2015
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Home Electrics

My son has just moved house, and there is a switched double socket in the utility room. Each of those sockets has a double socket thingy plugged into it, so there are 4 plugs serving the gas boiler,...
18:03 Wed 19th Nov 20149 answers, last by ivor4781 12:13 Thu 20th Nov 2014
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I Would Rather Sleep

I used to know a poem, in which an old countryman, a shepherd possibly, muses on the hereafter, and decides that if he doesn't wake, after death, to his sheep and his dogs and the life he's always...
03:49 Mon 04th Aug 20142 answers, last by scorpiojo 06:03 Mon 04th Aug 2014
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Old Film Starring Robert Culp

This is going back a bit, I saw a film where the Robert Culp character was a quiet family man in quite a nice suburb who for some reason had to turn vigilante, and revealed himself as a trained...
01:33 Fri 25th Jul 20145 answers, last by RobertCulpFan 00:23 Wed 13th Aug 2014
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Elder Tree

My 'Black Lace' Elder tree puts out a lovely show of blossoms every year, but these are not followed by berries, the fruits never form except for one or two tiny ones. I'm not bothered, it's grown for...
12:31 Thu 03rd Jul 20146 answers, last by greenrook 17:58 Sun 06th Jul 2014

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