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Very interesting, can you share the details ? I’s just the sort of thing I’d like to set up in my workshop.

They need electricity from the grid to operate. How or why I don't know, but that's what I was told about mine. Anyway, I bought a wind up radio but every time I turn it on it says "You're a bit fat ain't you?"

My experience with Currys is thus: 18 month old Samsung TV develops a fault (black lines across half the screen). Go into Currys, they refuse point blank as it’s “over 1 year old”. Letter to Currys head office. I point out to them that under the Consumer rights act 2015 they are liable for up...

Not far off. It was a town council election, I came third but I kept my deposit (only just).

When I stood for election in the 90s, one highlight (in my case the only one) was having to review the spoilt papers with the returning officer. These are the ones that she thought were a vote for someone but not a simple mark in the box; people put rings round or underline their choice and the...

Holding my nose and voting Lib Dem purely to get the woeful Caroline Ansell (C) out. It helps that the LD candidate is a local bloke and will be a good MP.

I was leafletting a council estate in 1997 for Labour. I put one through a letterbox, a bloke came out, waved the leaflet and shouted “You can stick that up your arse”. I gave him a jolly wave and said “I’ll put you down as undecided shall I ?"

I quite agree, she’s bottom of the list but I believe everyone should have a home, no matter how contemptible they may be. (and apologies if you thought I was calling you a heartless psychopath. I was referring to those in government who can end homelessness but don’t)

Because I’m not a heartless psychopath

“Ipswich, isn’t it, Paul Mariner, ’81 EUFA Cup, Little Mickey Mills, John Wark, Escape to Victory, FA Cup, Alan Brazil, Brazil nuts, Bobby Robson"

A more preferable outcome would be taking every penny she has to pay towards compensation for those wrongly convicted, leaving her living her remaining days in a council flat on nothing more than a state pension.

We got a puncture in Fougeres. Managed to limp to a Le Kwik Fit and tried using schoolboy french to explain our dilemma. Very pleasant and patient young man said “would it help if I spoke english ?"

Kavos, Crete ? Shome Mishtake shurely ? Kavos is in Corfu

Berlin if you’re into Cold-war/WW2 stuff

Back in the 80s I went to Crete. The resort, hotel, food and company was good. What was less good was crashing a motorbike into a local fisherman on a moped, getting arrested for careless driving and finding out that, due to Greek law at the time, I had to be held in custody until I had to go to...

I’m actually quite glad the season is over. It felt to me like RDZ’s style had been “found out” and teams had figured a way to counter it. Losing March and Mitoma (and Adingra for AFCON) left our attack rather threadbare and bereft of ideas. The lack of a plan B when plan A wasn’t working was...

Anything can go wrong in any system. That’s why you should keep essential spares so that when something fails it can be swiftly replaced. However when the accountants get their hands on things they decide that it costs too much keeping spares everywhere so they move them to regional depots...

If you haven't got a shedload of money then, thanks to Brexit, forget it. In Greece you need something like a €250k property, €4k per month income and private healthcare. I had planned to move to Spain when I retired in 2019 but with Covid and Brexit that's gone out of the window.

No, which is why we’ve come up the mountain to avoid it you stupid git.