Crazyface
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BoooooooooooooooooooI do if they promise no Karaoke!
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Crazyface
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BIL is still paying this. Refuses all help to sort it. His wife is very frustrated as she knows but even she cant get him to change! He's loaded btwMy FiL, 88, is going to move house next Friday. It's all a bit overwhelming for him so I and my wife are helping out with the nitty gritty of it. My wife got onto Sky today to start the house move, should be simple process. As she was doing this she discovered he is paying £150 for the full Sky package including broadband. Absolute theft. No idea how long he has been paying that. We try to help but he wont let us, 'you think I'm stupid, don't you?' Mmmmmmmm. Anyway, she got it down to £89.
The irritation, not new on here, is that Sky having been ripping him off for however long it has been
Pin-seeker
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Crazyface
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HMRC taking till December to calculate my tax from last year, so up to April 25.
(but I got my refund £££) I'm now just waiting for one more thing from a government department. How slooooooooooow are they
(but I got my refund £££) I'm now just waiting for one more thing from a government department. How slooooooooooow are they
Crazyface
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Not really......he's still got to fork out £10K for a gearbox!!!!!!! I assume he's plenty money?
Crazyface
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Sarcasm??
jim8flog
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Just got into bed, all snuggled with my book. Wife gets in and I casually observe duvet is wrong way around.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the pattern is going sideways, not lengthways."
Pause.
Out she gets and yanks duvet off.
"It's not really important is it??"
"Yes, our feet won't fit in".
Gets in.
Gets out, yanks it off again.
"What's the matter now?"
"It's upside down now, the buttons are up our end".
Thinks to self: "Only got yourself to blame you dozy t***"
I had to smile at this - assuming a double duvet they measure 200 x 200 cms
I was trying to sell a BNIB incorrectly delivered duvet one person decided not to buy it because she had measured her very old duvet in imperial and the size was not the same.
Slime
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Not a bit of it.
jim8flog
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Post boxes where the slot is too small for letters/cards...
(And no, my cards weren't very big - they fit in another postbox further away. The slot was just too small).
When I was young, like most, I did a paper round, on one MOD estate full of officers quarters all the letterboxes were the same size i.e way to small for even one paper and most houses had several papers delivered , usually all the biggest and thickest ones, Sunday with all the supplements were a real pain.
It's a big day on the drink for many people. My wife's family used to live in Alnmouth. In our younger days that was a big drinking day in the village. Boxing day and New Year's day were the two biggies.
Red devil
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Me too. Love a Boxing day pintme
Probably my favourite day of boozing over Christmas.
Pin-seeker
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Football bets on,few games of killer pool
Arthur Wedge
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It was the first car I can remember my dad having when we came back from Malta , the Chrysler Alpine after was a dream compared to it
Slime
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It was the first car I can remember my dad having when we came back from Malta , the Chrysler Alpine after was a dream compared to it
No, no, you must be mistaken!
The Austin Maxi was a great car, way ahead of it's time.
GPH 141N was a sandy coloured MKII 1750 with a vinyl roof and Wolfrace wheels.
TRV 973K was a dark blue MKII 1750.
UPG 19M was a white MKII 1750 with a beautiful Motolita steering wheel.
Best not talk about ROG 16G which was a
brown MKI 1500 with a horrific cable gear change!
