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  1. 9 hours ago, SiC said:

    This story certainly escalates quickly!

    https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-03-24/man-loses-home-after-spending-thousands-on-novelty-private-number-plate

    Man buys a numberplate for his wife and pays £15k all from inheritance that he has been told is worth £30k.

    Wife dies.

    Tries to sell plate and finds out it's not worth anywhere near what he thought.

    He gets cancer.

    Loses home with everything in storage and now on benefits. 

     

     

    I mean poor guy but at the same time I'm always amazed how gullible people are. Why would someone be selling something at a massively cut price if it's "worth more"?

    To be fair that's about as close to a plate actually saying something as you'll get.

    Perfect 4 Edinburgh sauna owner?

  2. If you look out of my kitchen window there's a lone tree pretty much exactly a mile away on top of a hill. About five years ago my old neighbour told me I should walk there and "see who's name is below it" in a way that suggested it would be personally relevant to me.

    I always intended to, but never got round to it.

    Yesterday I found myself feeling the need to escape for a while, so I set off along the footpath that would lead me there.

    Most of the journey there was fine, it was along an official ancient right of way that sees a reasonable amount of traffic, though I didn't see any other people. The next stretch was along a single track road with basically no traffic. I took a slight detour to sit by the reservoir for a moment, then trundled on.

    Eventually I reached the edge of the fields the tree sits above, at this point there seemed to be no way of reaching it but walking up the margins of the fields and climbing a fence, which I duly did.

    I reached the tree and inspected it thoroughly, no names to be seen. Just a couple of initials carved a long long time ago.

    At this point I decided my neighbour was winding me up, and sat on a log to have a cigarette and take in the view. Then I spotted a cross made of cut timber lying face down in the undergrowth, so I flipped it over...

     

    It was a cross for a dog named Gillie who died in 2019.

     

    I'm not really sure what significance, if any, this has.

    At least I got a good walk out of it.

  3. 1 minute ago, Rust Collector said:

    I’ve still got a couple of uniforms from [pizza chain], I don’t throw them out ‘in case I need them’. I’m not quite sure what for though, maybe some sort of daring pizza heist or a clichéd porn film perhaps.

    Oh there was a few jackets from them too, and a pair of trousers from back when they were provided, and a gilet (which I got about a week before we were told we weren't allowed to wear them anymore)

    The one thing I kept was a money bag, just to keep something.

     

    Actually, most of the storage in there was saved from going in a skip from there too!

  4. 3 minutes ago, martc said:

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    VP vehicle inspection, 1978 in Seelow (a district of Frankfurt/Oder).

    Rationally I know he's holding a notebook... but I can't help but see it as a smartphone. Time Traveller?

  5. Spent a couple of hours sorting out my lockup today.

    I've had it for something like 8 years now, it's slowly filled with crap over that time. I hadn't been up to it in over a year until this week, so it was a bit of a time warp tbh.

    Highlights of stuff that I found include my copy of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and my favourite jumper that I thought I'd lost.

     

    Also about 10 delivery bags from [pizza chain], oops.

  6. Apparently having my house number on the door with a foot tall fluorescent yellow number isn't enough for one of our local amazon drivers, as for the second time recently he's stuck my order through my upstairs neighbours door.

    Secondary grump for the fact that my neighbour came home, presumably noticed this, and didn't stick it through my door before they went out again.

  7. 1 hour ago, UltraWomble said:

    From OTC remedies just buy cheap paracetamol, cheap ibuprofen and take with either caffeine tablets or coffee ( this speeds up the metabolisation of the meds)

     

     

    Funnily enough caffeine tablets are the only "medicine" that I buy the branded version of; pro plus is a lovely shiny thing that's easy to swallow, the cheap ones are awful chalky pucks that start to dissolve in your mouth and get stuck and taste foul.

  8. Today I'm going to sit in my mum's kitchen to bash out some work on a project that I've been putting off. Cheaper and quieter than Costa, while still not having the wealth of distractions featured in my own house.

    Of course, I forgot that the bus times are completely different on a Sunday which has knackered my schedule for the day. Oh well.

  9. On 12/01/2024 at 02:41, Metal Guru said:

    Just a scheduled stop in Letsby Avenue.

    I can't remember which town/city it is, but there's somewhere that when they were doing regeneration/redevelopment, named the street with police HQ on it Letsby Avenue

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