Grab a chair, kick off your shoes, chill and chat.
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Fri May 12, 2023 9:34 am
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Last post by RobertArthur
Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:17 pm
Best wishes for 2024
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MAD87 »
Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:15 pm
I wish all forum members a good Christmas - or whatever they celebrate - and a healthy and happy 2024.
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Last post by Chappers51
Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:58 am
Savings
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hughnique »
Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:21 pm
I have a savings account in the UK but as we all know the interest rates are pretty poor, 2% at the moment. Anyone got any financial tips for...
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Last post by elsie
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:47 am
Christmas lights.....
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glazedallover »
Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:59 pm
Well it's not quite space invaders but it's jolly good fun smashing all those lightbulbs at the top of the page ! :D
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Last post by Blaze
Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:40 pm
Regaining voting rights in the UK
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Blaze »
Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:15 pm
From the House of Commons Library website :
The Elections Act 2022 received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. It includes provisions to removing the...
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Last post by Headers
Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:20 pm
COP 28 : tons of kerosene for bullshit !
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Biloute »
Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:35 pm
Organizing Cop 28 to set global climate goals in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) is a bit like creating a nursery for lambs in a den of wolves... But,...
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Last post by niemeyjt
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:43 pm
No Fires
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hughnique »
Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:56 pm
Having had a major clear out over the past couple of months and disposing of anything useful at the charity depot, I am left with a few sacks of...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:18 pm
What does your car say about you?
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niemeyjt »
Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:34 pm
It seems that my 20-year-old Volvo with over 400K on the clock says I am of low social status, poor mating material and socially submissive.
. . ....
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Last post by L Austin France
Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:00 pm
Smartphones
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DaveW »
Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:13 pm
There is constant discussion on the forum on the pros/cons of said beasts. Let’s be realistic modern day life is going to force you that way, maybe...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:27 pm
How do folks manage?
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L Austin France »
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:57 pm
Without a dishwasher that is.
Ours packed up last thursday & a new'un sourced, collected & fitted by lunchtime the following saturday.
Getting the...
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Last post by MAD87
Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:36 am
It really galls me
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L Austin France »
Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:04 pm
In town pedestrians have a right of way across marked crossings & knowing this step out onto them with no warning & without looking to see if there's...
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Last post by Loup-garou
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:13 am
Doctolib scam
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Blaze »
Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:17 pm
I've just had the fright of my life !!!
I booked a mammogram by phone on Monday for April next year (yes, the delay is long), which was confirmed by...
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Last post by Blaze
Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:38 pm
Gender neutrality gone mad
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Blaze »
Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:02 pm
The journalist who wrote this article should have been jumped on by whoever authorises articles to go to print in the Swindon Advertiser :
A DRIVER...
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Last post by Blaze
Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:36 pm
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Last post by BishyB
Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:56 am
Bats in the belfry !
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Blaze »
Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:01 pm
I suddenly realised that a bat was following my mouse pointer around .... perhaps he's hungry !! :lol:
🎃 🎃 🎃
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Last post by MAD87
Wed Nov 01, 2023 2:46 pm
Ukraine war
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Hotrodder »
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:38 pm
Are we prohibited from discussing it here? Just wondered. The topic seems to have been missing on main stream media for some time now. There is...
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Last post by RobertArthur
Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:14 pm
Snail Mail
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Blaze »
Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:55 am
I was amused to see this article on the BBC website about the problems of snails in a postbox in Lewdown, Devon....
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Last post by Nomoss
Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:31 pm
Wine Wars - the next round
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niemeyjt »
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:52 pm
It seems some French wine growers are unhappy with their Spanish counterparts. What a waste - not to mention pollution risk.
source:
translated:...
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Last post by Spectrum
Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:20 am
EDF charges (too much)
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L Austin France »
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:31 pm
At the end of last year (2022) EDF refunded us approx. 30% of the monthly prelevements we'd paid.
This year they've upped the same 2022 prelevement...
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Last post by MAD87
Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:55 am
Why oh why
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DaveW »
Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:09 pm
Has every plastic bottle manufacturer changed the screw off lid so that a piece remains holding it on. I first noticed this on milk bottles and it...
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Last post by Blaze
Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:13 am
British, English or what?
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hughnique »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:29 pm
My dear other half, came in to the world to English parents working in what was the Gold coast, now Ghana, in 1951, , she has a Ghanaian birth...
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Last post by MAD87
Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:19 pm
vide grenier/boot fairs
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Hotrodder »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:29 am
RA 's story on another thread reminds me. On Sunday we took advantage of the dry weather and had a pitch at our (almost) local vide grenier. A small...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:44 am
My lucky day
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RobertArthur »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:04 am
If I were a musician, I could have picked up my guitar and rephrased this song : C'est le plus beau jour de ma vie, j'ai retrouvé mon chapeau. In...
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Last post by Bayleaf
Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:25 am
Sea level
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RobertArthur »
Tue Oct 03, 2023 7:10 pm
At three hundred metres above sea level and yet walking at the bottom of what was once a sea.
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Last post by ajm
Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:13 pm
Boules keeps you young.
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L Austin France »
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:37 pm
Just back from my monday session at the local boulodrome where the members do nothing but laugh, joke & mickey take.
I'm no spring chicken but far...
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Last post by Polly
Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:58 pm
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