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:lol: :lol: Not wishing to labour the point but I DO have mobility problems (2 mobility scooters to help with that) and impaired vision (only one eye and the other one not too good) so, keeping...
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I'm not the Carrie who made the mosaic Grandad. Don't want to steal someone else's thunder.
That solves that quandary then, I never saw you as artistic 😜
We have been talking about London recently and with a couple of hours to kill this morning I put this slide show together from visits we made a number of years ago to 3 visitor attractions. I have...
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Cheers for that info A-four :up
I suppose the one that truly fits its appearance is 'The Gherkin'. I think it is great when architects take off the blinkers and come up with something really...
Never could stand it or it's supporters.
My uncle once dragged me to watch Llandudno play sum unpronounceable welsh village. It rained.
Anyhow, that place near where I was born Sandbanks,
where all...
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I think a few quotes are in order.....if only to demonstrate the intelligence of those at the top of the beautiful game. Clearly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I have a long history of banks and visa-versa.
From having a Coutts account to robbing a few, having met the head of HSBC and given them all a lots of money,
It cuts both ways....
Today I went to...
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The thing I remember about Coutts & Co was, when cards were introduced to verify cheques
if one was asked for 'one's card all one had to do was stare at the said assistant and point at the...
So after a couple of fires the 'Shed arises from the ashes...
Now I am beset with a quandry, Shall I call it A Gazebo, an Arbour, or my favorite, a Pergola
which translates as 'an erection in a...
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No, as it was also my flammable store including paint, varnish, thinners ect, it went up like a torch.
It never even spread to the jacuzzi roof, but did leave me with lots of metal tools with no...
Gardening one of the jobs that 'must be done . I'm a crap gardener if it grows great,
if it dies buy something else.
'Life's to short...
Anyhow Aida bought 4 shrubs from the shrubbery planted them,...
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I have put some photos of a creeper growing around my gazeebo,in my gallery, have been told its called a Pandoras but I have never heard of that before. If anyone has the time to look can you...
I love my lawn, small but well maintained.
I learnt to love lawns having been made to mow ours every week since a small child.
So, out with the scissors, the shears & the braun......and
In with the...
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I can well imagine, my mates and I did a similar thing with a push bike and a small engine pressing on the back tyre, I still have the scars :lol: :lol:
Today 'Juma holy day The scales fell from mine eyes...
I, have been awaiting delivery of my new fireback design, for..... three days now overdue.
Seems like my 'fixer got hit by an 8 year old on a...
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So an interesting day, the fire goes well but!
I set fire to the jacuzzi again...
And the newspaper around my trout caught fire, next!... 8)
'such is life!
This week-end, 22nd -23rd September, Open House takes place throughout the U.K., it is without doubt the world biggest architectural festival, and this is its 27th years. This festival has grown ever...
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But if he practiced an ''open door'' policy towards releasing information to the forum as a whole, then A-four looses his clique. :lol:
Bought some beeswax whilst I was in Turkey, couldn't find it here, and have made some beeswax polish. Just tried it out and love it, I had a coffee table that was unpainted just raw finished wood and...
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Old fashioned treatments such as beeswax polish, with or without lavender, are still better than many of the more modern answers. There is also so much more satisfaction in using them too.
I was invited to the Classic Car Show at the Excel center the other evening.
Stunning exhibition of extremely expensive modes of transport.
Bruce paid £1200 in 1965 for this Lotus Cortina last sold...
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Unfortunately the Law is an Ass and always has been. :td
I abhor violence and undoubtedly the train driver suffered an injury - but it was not the cause of his death.
For sometime I've thought it would be a good idea if we could build up a collection of paintings of Egyptian scenes. Finally, I'm going to start a thread for this purpose. Please post pictures of...
Bought a memory card for my phone so that I could store more photos on it before I downloaded them, with it came a micro adapter, I can't find any slot to insert the micro adapter into my PC, so is...
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If your phone and computer have Bluetooth you can also use this method to transfer photographs across. Once you've got the hang of it, it's a simple method - I can say this with confidence because I...
I have been given, carrot, beetroot, turnip and pea seeds, has anyone any idea when I should plant them. On the packet it says March to July for all of them but is it too hot here now?
For anyone who enjoys listening to Podcasts I came across an interesting one while I was installing a new App on my phone, the one I used was called ‘ Overcast ’ and it has a free version in the App...
Bought some lovely material and want to cover a headboard with it, the headboard is to be affixed to the wall, but how? Don't want to screw through it to attach it, thought of hooks in the wall and...
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I think that carrie is clever enough to find this info herself without the need of Sue's help.
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