Brew
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Helloooo, Philistine here. Chulla #1 sorry but for me that's probably the most boring music I've heard in a long time. The Mahler #7 is so depressing it's music to jump of a bridge by and the Proclaimers #24, irritating beyond endurance.
The Bolero I've liked since my Grandad played it on a windup gramophone before T&D were even thought of. The 'orange juice' clip I listened to all the way through and quite enjoyed it (not heard a brass band version before).
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Not sure how it works now it's a few years ago and the plethora of competition may have driven prices down. All I can say it was surprisingly easy to do it myself.
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I was put off using a specialist when they were quoting 30% as a fee.
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Seems regret of not being able to play an instrument is quite common so can I add to it? I would love to play a piano or violin but unfortunately I couldn't carry a tune if it was in a bucket. I have a full 88 key keyboard, a flute and a mouthorgan, can't play any of them no matter how many YouTube videos I watch.
Same with painting. I have dabbled with acrylics, water colours and produced what I'm told is a passable picture. But they're not originals as such, they are paintings copied from photographs. Seems I have zero creativity.
The list goes on but my biggest regret is managing to choose six numbers that never appear on the winning ticket.
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Yes, my other half and I have both had PPI refunds and no we didn't use a professional to do it. There are plenty of sites on the internet offering advice, some even have letter templates. All it took for us was a letter to the companies and an offer came back within a few weeks which we accepted, all pretty much straight forward and quite simple.
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The American M O A B (recently dropped on Nangarhar ) was a development of the Barnes Wallis WW11 Grandslam and Tallboy bombs issued to 617 squadron. It weighs slightly less than the British Grandslam. How the explosive power compares I don't know.
I may be accused of being a conspiracy theorist but I suspect it's more for the benefit of North Korea than to have any useful effect in Afghanistan.
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I was there from the first day and left 59/60/ Kenyon house (Kenyon was chairman of the education committee that oversaw the building of the school, the seventy first and largest comprehensive in the country at the time).)
Several outstanding memories though few of them good. Being 'slippered' for walking round the cross country course (my best friend was fat!) then kicking the crap out of Sid Boltons shins during the teacher pupil rugby game in retribution.
Mr Wallace my English teacher had the most beautiful italic handwriting I've ever seen.
Anyone remember Mr Rogers? (Maths) Seriously scary. Skeletal physique and an unpredictable nature. A classmate called Goodwin asked him if we were to continue the stick of the figure 9 below the line the way he had written it on the board. Rogers literally went mental. He had what I can only describe as a leather truncheon about two feet long and went for Goodwin with it. He didn't call him to the front of the class, just attacked him where he sat. The class was in total uproar as Rogers forced the kids head down onto the desk and just went wild thrashing him. Two teachers pulled him off and we never saw him again, I think he died.
I was only caned once. The next time a teacher tried it I snatched it away and broke it into three pieces, did again when he replaced it. Strangely enough nothing was ever said about it.
One thing I'm curious about, was the school motto always 'Towards Fulfilment'? I seem to remember it as one word originally - 'Forward'
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Old red phone box door handle, pic is turned 90 degrees.
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It's a no eyed deer
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I did this but it's not an easy calculation.
Some factors to consider:
How much will the pension reduce by
How many years will it take to reach the 'break even point'
How long will you be around to collect it
What effect will it have on any survivor pension
How much will inflation (it's higher than interest rates for the foreseeable future) erode the benefit of having a 'nest egg'
Will the full pension take you into a higher tax bracket.
There are other things to take into account but much depends on personal situation
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Skeggy - Smell of out of date chip oil, brown Windsor soup sea, cold wind and family groups on the sand huddled up trying to stay warm. Just some of my abiding memories.
Mablethorpe - Ghost town with a slightly sad air about it
Cleethorpes - The only holiday I ever had as a child. Grandma took my younger brother and my self to stay in what was called a chalet. A wooden hut with no running water or drains. Grandad thought it hilarious when Gran locked and bolted the door to keep out the smell when the men came to empty the toilet. I was about 6 so it can't have made much of an impression if that's all I can remember.
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In '58 I bought a 'doitup', a old nineteen hundred and frozen to death Triumph 3T 350cc motorcycle for the princely sum of £4.
No front brake, electrics mostly U/S and a non starter. The choke didn't work but a guy told me about fresh petrol, covering the carb inlet with my hand and kicking it up. Wow oh wow it worked - dead proud of myself.
Tried it gently down the garden, so far so good.... and Lanthwaite Rd is looking awfully quiet... err what if....
Of course it had to done. Up the road woohoo brilliant, turned round and got carried away, just a smidgen mind you but my brain is now firmly in neutral. At the T junction the top dressing chippings had been swept into a nice triangle. Motorcycles do not stop well with only a back brake and are even less effective on loose road material. No longer boy and machine in perfect harmony but we're now singing from different hymn sheets
Next door but twos' hedge however was extremely good at stopping errant motor bikes. Not so good at stopping the rider. Bike well and truly buried in privet hedge, yours truly base over apex on the front lawn and a really, really miffed neighbour holding what was left of a rose tree.
'If you don't tell me dad I'll repair the hedge, lawn and buy you a new tree.... honest'.
I replaced the damaged privet with some from our garden, put a bit of turf in the lawn and asked him what the rose tree was called so I could get a new one. 'It's a standard'. 'Whoa that's clever, you said that without moving your lips........ and my dads standing behind me isn't he'?
He had ratted me out whilst I was raiding our hedge for replacements.
Welcome to the 'not sitting down today' club
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I'm amazed that the 'rent woman' was never robbed. She looked to be late forties (older than me mam') and walked the estate with a satchel full of cash every week. There must have been dozens of rent collectors all over the city, did any of them ever have the money stolen?
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Wish I had that actual coin, I think it might be worth a bit more than a quid.... it's dated 2014!
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DC you're quite correct. As an ex electrical engineer I know that wattage has bugger all to do with efficiency. If your Dyson makes a good fan heater then it's an indication that it is not particularly efficient and is using a fair portion of it's consumption to generate heat, much like incandescent bulbs. Only 2% of a 100W lamp produces light, the rest is heat.
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In a blog last year, European Commission spokesman Marlene Holzner wrote: “Vacuum cleaners will use less energy for the same performance - how much dust they pick up. This will help consumers to save money and make Europe as a whole use less energy.”
The average power of a vacuum on the market in Europe at the time was 1,800 watts. This will have to be halved within the next three years, as the limit of 1,600 watts will be reduced to just 900 watts from September 2017.
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Knocking your duck off? Still common parlance round hear.
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From September 2017 the EU rule for vacuum cleaners will be 900 watts.
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Talking to a youngster this morning about ice cream. When I told her that we used by the ice cream in a paper wrapper and put a wafer on each side to make an 'ice cream sandwich' she thought I was pulling her leg. Just could not persuade her that an ice cream sandwich was a real thing.
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Cliff Ton,
Forum boards usually have two control panels, user and administrator
In the forum I manage deleting entire topics is done from the ACP (Administrators control Panel), two clicks and the entire topic is gone. .
I can't say that it would work here as this forum is built on a different platform but maybe worth looking at?
Edit:
One possible reason is backups, does it auto backup and if so at what time?
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Time is now 22:57 and it's slower than a very very slow thing. Two minutes 3secs to swap topics or go for 'unread content'
Earworms
in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
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Quite right Loppylugs and long may it remain so. I like my music (except jazz) in small doses. I usually lose interest halfway through a CD/LP even if I like the artist, by track 3 or 4 my mind is off chasing rainbows.
As I said I'm a bit of a Philistine when it comes to art 'n' culture but you know what they say: 'I may not know much about art but I know what I like' or 'Different strokes for different folks'