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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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Council Tax
No reason they should let people like you and me off- pensions aren't reduced etc. Plus, you keep telling us you've got more money than you know what to do with.
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OT:Clueless Asda Tesco the Supermarket you can Trust (if you don't want onions)
Checking the web and Asda are the only ones of the major players who open their sheds at 6.a.m. 6 - 10 every day except Sunday. Tesco Metros do but they're smaller. Choosing an Asda shed was a tossup...
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The olden days....
While events have stopped us doing some normal things, we aren?t just watching daytime TV etc. There is no reason we can?t, for example, still go for walks. We are planning on several days out taking...
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Telephone sanitisers
They left on the B-Ark. SteveW
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Masks
Suppose that makes a change from all the dead horse flogging these days.
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Re: OT Panic buyers
The Co-op has loads of teabags at £4 a small box. I'm sure heroin is cheaper. Owain
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