err indoors has just driven by several with no queue, one garage is rationing it to £30 per customer but there was no queue. I think all the panick buyers have now filled up everything they have. I...
… by a temporary visa system for foreign drivers? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58673567 I thought a certain Swift character known for his travels might have beaten me to this one ;-) At least...
"The British Retail Consortium" Which represents all the major food and retail chains in the UK. Has said it expects to see food shortages and more empty shelves by the end of this week. This is no...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58494641
Cue the usual deniers who are no different to anti vaxers with their views
Is it all still caused by volcanoes then ?...
Nasty taxes from the Nasty Party. Tory Party to increase Council tax to pay for social care. National insurance to increase for workers and employers, Planning to raid inheritence tax, Not forgetting...
My grandson asked me how to go about getting a pension organised. He is a self employed bricklayer and is on a high rate of pay. Has always been self employed.
As a “serious” question, I almost put this in “Politics.” Following on from the recent thread on “guilty homosexual crushes”, but this time it's hetero-political. I have to admit that I have the hots...
If an electrician fits a car charger outside your house, how complicated is it? Does he or she just drill through and connect to the nearest ring main, or do they have to run a new cable from the...
Is it acceptable for this government to ask us to make expensive changes to our lifestykes such as buying electric cars and scrapping gas fired central heating boilers among other things and...
Yet again we have another country burning to the ground.,And yet still we have people complaining they are not able to get on a polluting plane to go on their so called well earned holiday abroad....
A few weeks ago my immersion heater took to occasional cutting my power. Turn off the heater and restore the circuit breaker, wait a while, turn the heater on and all was fine. Then the situation got...
Do any of you know someone with an unfortunate name? A classic example is someone my Bruv knows whose first name is Clem and surname Royds (say it together n sounds like haemorrhoids!) I my self know...
A few days ago, I bought a ceiling light from one of the Moroccan shops in The Lanes. It's like a chandelier style. Bronze coloured metal, with seven chains. on each chain, there is a multi faceted...
I collect my Motor home on Friday, no hassle with booking hotels guest houses, flights, passports, testing kits, everyone that wants to will be trying to book staycations so prices will rocket that's...
The fluffy,cuddly advert using cartoon figures telling you what to do if you get a warning light in your vehicle, lets have an advert showing someone broken down on one of these insanely dangerous...
Can you do it? I've tried every way I can think of and can't (lockdown boredom). Give it a go - lie or sit on the floor and stand up without using your hands or arms (or anyone else's) and no aids....