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Are there wireless doorbells with 'Quinetic' type pushes?
Can you get 'wireless' doorbells with Quinetic type pushes? I.e. a push button that doesn't require any battery? We want to put a button out on our front gate so delivery drivers can more easily keep...
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Mothers Day
Boris says the best single present for mothers was to stay away. So following this official advice I phoned my Mum and asked for the chocolates back that I dropped off on Thursday (I was supposed to...
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All you chemists out there (quinine)
They say say chloroquine has an effect on co-vid 19 but I tried to research whether quinine bisulfate would work. Whatever way I phrase it every answer only mentions chloroquine and nothing on quinine...
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Fussy cat
How do you tell your fussy cat,no more chicken because of covid-19 ? because whenever I go to the supermarket the shelves are empty.
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Re: European "Union" shows its true colours now push comes to shove
1, are these masks dodgy? I see a lot of bona fide looking adverts around but most either don't exist or are sub standard crap. Brian
 
poly bags
A cashier will not use a "customer bag" today, to bag groceries. They will only use a "clean" store-provided bag. If the bag is "free again", so much the better. In addition, Plexiglas shields have...
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jumpers
Not any knowledge that the private hospitals have allowed anyone to jump any queues during this current problem. One could see these people who pay for private healthcare as reducing the load on the...
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OT: ten bangs
I overlook the M18. At 3.08am I was walking the (nocturnal) dog around the back yard when I heard a loud bang, like a shotgun. Looking in the direction of the motorway I saw a small cluster of orange...
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super new tv
Not your super new JVC shirley ?.
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icebreakers
Dunno about this one... Can someone give me a list of hopefully enjoyable generic topics, I can use to spring someone elderly into conversation, without mentioning the current elephant in the room?...
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It never rains but...
With the nice weather today, I could finally got round to sorting out some small leaks in the joints of the conservatory gutters. It took a couple of hours but hopefully they will be ok. After...
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OT: Google's covid19 Information & Resources
covid-19 - Google Search
 
No pubs - end of the world
And lots of other places where people socialise.
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Panic buying
It is becoming serious, there is no tonic water left anywhere hereabouts, what to do! On a serious note why are all the pharmacies heaving? what are the doctors doing to write so many prescriptions?
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Close coupled bog...
I'm having my first experience of a close coupled cistern/pan, must have escaped them until now. There's a foam 'doughnut' between the two, I presume i'm fastening the cistern and pan together until...
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