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Late Payment Charge

I have an account with Empire which is now KandCo on 20 week interest free terms. I pay regularly on the due day, or just before, via their website. I then get confirmation by email of the payment. I...

abstibus

'Sniper' bids

Has anyone any suggestions as to how to frustrate these on e-bay? (I tried to post a question earlier and it disappeared). Thanks...

Spreeny

steam cleaner

I've recently bought a hand held steam cleaner but the instructions advise not to use an extension lead with it, but that's the only way I can use it in in the bathroom because the flex on the steamer...

EDDIE51

TV voting shows

Why do we never hear how many votes each person gets in these shows, like X Factor and the rest? The company must know how many votes each got so why do they not tell us ? Gives support to the idea...

jd_here

London Underground

Can anybody give me advice please on the price of a day travel pass, off peak, for London Underground. How far in advance can I buy it, and am I able to use my Senior Railcard. Try as I might I am...

Animals4me

Blocking emails.

I keep getting emails in arabic....I don't open them for obvious reasons but they are coming direct to my email and not to my spam box.I move them to spam and then delete but this is tiresome and was...

david21

Walking dead

Hello all, Is Walking dead repeated on the FX channel at any point,missed fridays and i've had a look through the scedule and website but cant see anything about a repeat during the week.......Thanks....

fishing81

TiVo box from Virgin

We have Sky sat with a magic eye to view in the other room but also we have a Virgin cable connection in one room but was wondering if Virgin have a similar system where you can view in two rooms as...

stoofur

Christmas Joke Appeal. Help!

Hi everyone. Every year I would email a daily joke email over the Christmas period. A kind of Joke Advent Calendar. This year I was not going to bother. But I have had a demand from the recipients...

stoofur

Music in Masterchef

Does anybody else think that the music in Masterchef is really over the top? There was one the other day and the music was more emotional than the end of Saving Private Ryan!

impact5

I hope you understand what I'm talking about

What is the name for the phone system whereby you can use headphones and mic, for landlines and walk about , and can anyone tell me where to buy them

kitty1950

Text message from BT sms text message service on my landline phone.

I had a phone call at 4am this morning on my landline phone, when I answered it i heard something like `this is a message from BT text messaging service', then it went on to offer options so I...

joggerjayne

Copying "bookmarks" in Firefox

Hey, techies ... x Is there a way to copy all my bookmarks (in Firefox) onto an external hard drive, and then plug the external hard into a different lappy ?? J x...

smurfchops

Mudeford to Christchurch Harbour

Are there any good restaurants and cosy pubs in Mudeford, if so where, and how far is it to walk to Christchurch Harbour, is it an easy walk ?

divegirl

Freeview HD

Hi, I am thinking of getting rid of Virgin as my cable provider and was wondering what I would need to do to get a Freeview HD box up and running? Is it just a case of having the appropriate ariel...

what..the?

Night latch lock on Garden gate?

I want to install a night latch on a small gate up to the house. I then have key to access personally and an intercom for visitors they talk to me over the video audio relay and I can press a button...

Gromit

Banks, Bailouts and Bonuses

The banking bailouts cost us £850billion. We are paying for that with cuts to wages, jobs, services so we can make payments on the huge loads we had to get to save the banks. Now it is reported...

flipnflap

Royal Family doing interviews

I watched Wills n Kate doing an interview today. i know they, and especially he, have done quite a lot of interviews now, but it doesn't ever seem right to me. I can't recall ever seeing The Queen...

vulcan

are there too many abbreviations ?

This afternoon I was sitting in the clinic waiting for my appointment with the doctor. A young man,early thirties came in and said to the receptionist, Can you tell me where the I T department is ?...

moggie 939

Mobile Broadband - poor signal!

When we moved recently (only a few miles) I lost my excellent mobile broadband signalon o2 so that now, although I can still get online ok, it is difficult streaming on iPlayer for instance as it...

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