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Merv is back ... alive and well

by Mervyn and Trish » 16 Oct 2020, 15:37
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Okay, update from the sickbed!

One or two have noted my absence from the forum for chunks of the past couple of weeks. Did the rest of you not miss...

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I know l'm treading where l shouldn't here but to my mind if David were to make the recent topics box bigger to include WA, LOTP and TWA you would...
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20 Oct 2020, 11:32
Help needed

by jacksparrow » 18 Oct 2020, 09:41

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One of my community activities includes being the editor of a Parish magazine. I am struggling to find a suitable front cover for the December issue...

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I don’t do cheap & tacky
Unless they are chocolates :thumbdown:

I'm surprised the Mods have allowed you to get away with that comment David ;) :)

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20 Oct 2020, 11:14
Last One to Post Wins

by david63 » 18 Jan 2013, 21:53
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It's a lovely day for a flu jab in a pub with no beer :thumbup:

Got mine this Thursday. Unfortunately they don't provide beer at the surgery :(...
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20 Oct 2020, 09:52
Word Association

by david63 » 19 Jan 2013, 09:02
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Another golden oldie :)

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20 Oct 2020, 07:08
Three Word Story

by david63 » 19 Jan 2013, 22:34
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And a glass

(hi BM :-))

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19 Oct 2020, 19:04
Current Affairs

by Stephen » 29 Jun 2016, 15:30
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I see Corbyn is under more pressure. Yes, he is no leader but I do feel a bit sorry for the bloke with all the pressure he's under at the moment.

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If reports are right good old Boris is going to cut and run by Spring as he can't manage on his £150k salary.

Will you be arguing that he should get...
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19 Oct 2020, 10:35
Strictly 2020

by david63 » 04 Sep 2020, 10:34

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Anyone else underwhelmed by the list of celebrities this year - in fact has anyone even heard of most of them?

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What was amazing is that most, if not all of the contestants said they got the partner they had hoped for.....see there are bigger fibbers than...

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18 Oct 2020, 12:14
Life After Brexit

by david63 » 31 Jan 2020, 21:32
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Now that Brexit is behind us it is time to start a new page

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If Boris really is true to his word

Warning OXYMORON alert

I really don't think you should be calling ' OL ' a poxy moron :angel:
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18 Oct 2020, 12:07
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 16 Oct 2020, 08:38

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The Children's Off Topic Thread

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Okay here it is for the hooligans among us who can't resist going off topic. On the Official Off Topic Thread, where the only sin is to stay on...

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POLICE ........Covid rule breaker :)

Calm down Stephen - its only virtual :crazy:

.... and it'll be virtually impossible to spot us coming into...
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14 Oct 2020, 16:57
Football 20/21

by barney » 04 Sep 2020, 17:04
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For those of us who are interested in the beautiful game.

Gills season kicks off tomorrow at 1.00 pm with a Haribo Cup game against Sarfend....

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Just to show that no one can watch the Derby vs Watford except those with, in this instance, SKY.
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14 Oct 2020, 13:52
Alphabet Quiz

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You know how it goes :D

How about cruising destinations?

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Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 09 Oct 2020, 07:53

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Happy Birthday johnds

by Stephen » 04 Oct 2020, 07:57

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Have a good day John :thumbup:

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Happy Birthday John…I was going to send you some keefy chocolates but Foxy has put me in a bad mood all day so I’ve sent them to Theresa...

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05 Oct 2020, 07:36
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 02 Oct 2020, 05:52

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I went into a library and asked if if they had a book on coping with a small penis,

It's only just in, said the librarian.

Yeah, that's the one,...

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02 Oct 2020, 14:51
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 25 Sep 2020, 08:48

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A married couple are travelling by car from Victoria to Prince George .
Being seniors, after almost eleven hours on the road, they were too tired to...

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26 Sep 2020, 11:11
Oxymorons

by Ginny-T » 21 Jan 2015, 09:42
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Saw this on another site a few years ago.

A couple of my favourites are:

Plastic glasses
Baggy tights

What about anyone else?

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30th Sept 1967, the start of BBC's new pop music station, Radio 1, with Tony Blackburn playing The Moves, Flowers in the Rain.
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Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 18 Sep 2020, 09:00

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A professor travels to Africa to live with a primitive tribe:
He spends years with them, teaching them all about the wonders of science, mathematics,...

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24 Sep 2020, 09:36
Flu Jabs 2020

by david63 » 18 Sep 2020, 11:21

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Yesterday I went for my flu jab and I have to admit that it was the easiest I have ever encountered.

This year our GP is not doing the jabs at the...

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It seems that at least one Dorset Surgery is using a Pub and another an Airfield ... any other odd locations ?

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21 Sep 2020, 09:06
Bird watching

by Onelife » 23 Mar 2020, 22:04
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I'm not suggesting you go out bird nesting but today l watched two wood pigeons building a nest in our yew tree, we've had blue tits visiting a nest...

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21 Sep 2020, 07:48
One to watch

by Stephen » 22 Mar 2020, 10:19
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For those in self isolation or anyone wanting to watch a feel good film I can thoroughly recommend getting the DVD titled 'Fishermans Friends'.

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That was the lodger :D
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18 Sep 2020, 13:44
The BBC

by screwy » 12 Jun 2020, 12:41
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Is it now time to Defund the Beeb. It seems clear to most people that it has lost its ‘Impartiality’. It has been getting away with sub standard...

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Interesting selective reporting in the papers of BBC top salaries.

Daily Mail headline - Zoe Ball gets £1m pay rise after losing 1m listeners....
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17 Sep 2020, 19:05
What happened to

by Whynd1 » 16 Sep 2020, 19:10

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Was just wondering if anybody ever followed the blog by George Williams.
He and his wife used to cruise with P and O and he wrote a few books about...

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He wrote really interesting cruise reports like SueKersh - gosh I miss reading them too - if I’d been to any of the ports she visited it would bring...

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17 Sep 2020, 18:27
Holy condoms, how much is covid costing us?

by Kendhni » 15 Sep 2020, 17:40

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I was just looking for a number for another post and one of the links I came across shows the BoE has issued £300bn of QE to help get us through...

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Half if not more of the people going for testing probably don't need it. And if you think you have got Covid going by the symptoms just isolate...

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16 Sep 2020, 11:28
Renting

by Onelife » 24 Aug 2020, 20:54

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I know its difficult for young people to get on the housing ladder but I didn’t realise renting would be as difficult.

Our daughter has just secured...

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It used to be based on the rateable value of the property but that method may have been replaced.

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14 Sep 2020, 13:58
Happy Birthday Jan Rosser

by Stephen » 13 Sep 2020, 08:14

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Hope you have a lovely day Jan

X :thumbup:

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Excuses excuses excuses.

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14 Sep 2020, 11:35
The bomb squad

by Whynd1 » 14 Sep 2020, 09:32

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On tonight on channel 4 at 8pm.
This features our friends son Sgt Hughes.

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I found this info on him.

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14 Sep 2020, 10:17
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 11 Sep 2020, 06:20

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12 Sep 2020, 12:47
Mask wearing

by Kendhni » 09 Sep 2020, 07:57

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Just read this story

As someone with severe asthma I fully back the pilots decision. Anybody can find and print off bits of paper like that, the...

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I was talking to my cousin yesterday who lives in one of the Manchester hotspots and she was saying that the main problem is with Asian males who...

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10 Sep 2020, 09:22
Would you ?

by barney » 05 Sep 2020, 09:35

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Would you dob in someone who you knew had been to a country that compelled quarantine on arrival back, but didn’t ?

We discussed this this morning...

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Honest answer Barney…if it was family or close friends “No” but anyone else... such as Stephen, then Yes! Most definitely I would. :D :thumbup:

I...

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05 Sep 2020, 21:18
Working from home

by Kendhni » 05 Sep 2020, 08:23

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So what are peoples thoughts on all this working from home?

In my own case I have now been working from home for the last 6 months (the company I...

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A tad difficult to work from home when dealing with the IRA, Argies, Rapists,robbers and Murderers.

Get off your arses and get in the work...

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05 Sep 2020, 21:13
Mornin All ~~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 04 Sep 2020, 06:17

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05 Sep 2020, 11:39
Online Grocery Deliveries ?

by Manoverboard » 29 Aug 2020, 08:30

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With effect from tomorrow, Sunday, Sainsbugs will no longer deliver one's shopping in bags, bar meat and frozen, meaning that one needs to put out...

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Went out to the shops today for the first time in many months ... I am now 100% sold on online shopping (something I thought I would never say). The...

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05 Sep 2020, 11:11
Carding Mill Valley

by Onelife » 27 Aug 2020, 11:08

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Hi all...my daughter has asked me to post this link in the hope that some of you might be willing to sign the petition.

Carding Mill Valley sits in...

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Another from the National Trust website :wave:

Steady on Mob you’ll be signing the petition next ;) :thumbup: :wave:

Do you really think so ?...

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30 Aug 2020, 09:25
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 28 Aug 2020, 07:59

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28 Aug 2020, 20:18
Francis....

by Onelife » 25 Aug 2020, 14:54

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....certainly got out of bed on the wrong side this morning. It aint half blowing a storm here in them yonder hills of Shropshire…not much rain but...

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Francis’s brother Pee-ter has just arrived…it’s absolutely bucketing down hear in. :thumbdown:

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27 Aug 2020, 13:34
Football 2019/20

by barney » 27 Jun 2019, 14:32
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Right !
I've been down to William Hill and had my customary £10 bet on The Gills for promotion.

Unfortunately the odds for relegation are narrower...

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I’ve watched Gills v Cambridge since Reading.
Our first competitive match is the 5th v Southend in some cup or other.
One o’clock kick off?
A bit...
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27 Aug 2020, 09:18
Old class chums done good

by Onelife » 23 Aug 2020, 22:10

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I can't recall any of my year class mates going on to become household names whether that be in the arts, theatre, or sporting professions but I've...

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Alan Birchenall who went on to play professional
Football, Sheffield Utd comes to mind ,went to our school.

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24 Aug 2020, 08:53
Happy childhood memories

by Onelife » 21 Aug 2020, 22:25

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I have to say l enjoyed a very happy childhood and spent much of my play in the fields that were adjacent to our council estate. I can look back on...

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I lived in a back to back, 2 bed terrace with an outside privy and only cold water plumbing, near to a small council estate. However my council house...

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23 Aug 2020, 23:05
Such a Proud Mum 😂

by david63 » 23 Aug 2020, 08:27

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23 Aug 2020, 14:35
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 21 Aug 2020, 08:52

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Good one Ray :lol:

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23 Aug 2020, 08:08
Fruit trees

by Onelife » 20 Aug 2020, 06:15

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We have a few fruit trees scattered around our garden two of which are apple trees, one being cooking and the other being eating. When we moved in...

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You're beginning to display symptoms of MontyDonitis! :D

Can't get enough of Monty :thumbup:

Are you watching his two recent ( repeat ) progs...

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22 Aug 2020, 13:18
55 Years ...

by david63 » 20 Aug 2020, 15:58

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... for the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber.

The longest sentence that has been given - and that is before he will even be considered for...

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THE cost to the taxpayer of holding inmates in our crisis-hit jails is at a record high, a Sun on Sunday study reveals today. The bill is now £43,213...

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22 Aug 2020, 10:16
Late to bed late to rise.....

by Onelife » 20 Aug 2020, 06:50

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.....or is it somewhere in between?

I'm generally tucked up in bed by midnight and would normally rise around 7.30 which up until a few months ago...

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Establish a routine to know the day of the week .... kill a chicken day is Monday, put the bins out is Tuesday etc :angel:

...like chop your...

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20 Aug 2020, 10:03
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 14 Aug 2020, 08:36

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An 85-year-old man was requested by his doctor for a sperm count as part of his physical exam.

The doctor gave the man a jar and said, Take this...

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19 Aug 2020, 17:19
Fly Tipping

by Stephen » 15 Aug 2020, 12:01

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Did anyone else read the piece in today's Saturday Mail about the fly tipper who had his 400 tyres returned to his house/driveway from the farmer who...

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They drop it off in Devon? :angel:

Who sell it back to Darzet via boot sales :D

Tis true but we then export it to Felixstowe, wherever that is...

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16 Aug 2020, 16:30
V J Day

by Whynd1 » 15 Aug 2020, 11:29

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Many memories here today as we watch on television the VJ Day 75th commemorations.
My husbands favourite uncle was taken prisoner in Singapore and...

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According to antipodean chums this anniversary is not celebrated with the enthusiam one would expect given their close involvement with the Japanese...

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15 Aug 2020, 12:16
The Cerne Giant

by Stephen » 10 Aug 2020, 10:35

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Anyone know how Graham (The Cerne Giant) is. Haven't seen him on here for ages.

Hope the old chap is well.

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Lub you all :wave:

Good to see you. Lub you too. :thumbup:

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14 Aug 2020, 12:51
Coincidence or ...

by david63 » 16 Jul 2020, 08:50

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Yesterday afternoon a BT Openreach vehicle was seen going up our road and shortly after the broadband connection kept dropping, shortly followed by...

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Surely one should have an ' unlimited ' tariff rather than every single call being a unique charge
One does - but special numbers don't come under...

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14 Aug 2020, 10:44
Mornin All ~~~ :) ~~~

by Stephen » 07 Aug 2020, 06:47

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A man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever...

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