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Sending Small Video Clip

I need an EASY way to send my wife (in hospital) a short video clip. She is not technically very able (although far more than she thinks). So what I want is something she can click on (she has...
15:15 Fri 11th Dec 20202 answers, last by allenlondon 16:14 Fri 11th Dec 2020
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Love

Someone on radio reminded me of an O Henry story, gist of which is two old people, poor as church mice, her only ‘possession’ her long golden locks, but no comb to comb them with. His sole possession...
17:04 Thu 10th Dec 20208 answers, last by allenlondon 19:07 Thu 10th Dec 2020
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Problem Radiator

Small flat, six rads, 5 fine, red hot, bleed easily. Last in sequence has been OFF for 3 years (bedroom). Now want it on. On/off valve stuck. WD40 overnight. Next day valve turned, but only a little....
12:34 Thu 10th Dec 202023 answers, last by Atheist 12:45 Mon 14th Dec 2020
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Our Good Friends

Looking for something else, came across this amazing story of a very good German. In 1940, there was a naval battle between the British destroyer Glowworm, and the German battleship Admiral Von...
14:40 Mon 07th Dec 202049 answers, last by allenlondon 15:16 Wed 09th Dec 2020
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Suffering From Grandparents?

“Ideal bathroom support for the elderly, those with disabilities as well as grandparents.” So reads the Amazon product information for the Homecraft Toilet Commode frame....
00:58 Mon 07th Dec 20207 answers, last by Theland 04:15 Mon 07th Dec 2020
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Cheap Payg

What are the current cheapest Pay As You Go rates, no contract, no monthly fee, no internet, just calls and texts? It’s quite hard wading through all the guff! Tks A...
21:00 Sun 06th Dec 202019 answers, last by allenlondon 17:58 Fri 11th Dec 2020
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Finding An Nhs Bosses' Name

I want to make a complaint to our local District Nurse management (not about the nurses, but about the management!). Very difficult to get a name from anyone. Any ideas on how I can prise such...
16:07 Sat 05th Dec 202014 answers, last by bednobs 00:48 Sun 06th Dec 2020
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Dpd Delivery Scam

Had this twice today. From 'DPD' parcels. Tried to deliver, couldn't, need to pay a fee for 3rd attempt!! In the bin of course, but not a bad one - who knows what parcels are winging their way to...
11:48 Thu 03rd Dec 20205 answers, last by woofgang 12:13 Thu 03rd Dec 2020
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The Last Goodbye

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-choice/2020-the-last-goodbye Sudan, the last white rhino on Earth, being comforted by one of his carers, just before he died. Heartbreaking on so many levels....
07:40 Thu 03rd Dec 202037 answers, last by iluvmargie 16:24 Thu 03rd Dec 2020
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Girl With No Face

She calls herself the ‘girl with no face’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6xf She was locked up in a small room ‘for her own protection’ for years. Her father had to kneel on the floor outside...
10:20 Wed 02nd Dec 20208 answers, last by allenlondon 20:09 Wed 02nd Dec 2020
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Lonely

My mum, wiser than I ever gave her credit for when she lived, used to say of one talkative elderly neighbour, “She’s probably just lonely.” Mum lived alone at the time, my dad having died 15 years...
08:54 Tue 01st Dec 202050 answers, last by jennyjoan 15:20 Wed 02nd Dec 2020
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A ‘Point Of View’

Bernardine Evaristo on today’s BBC R4 ‘Point of view’ : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ptc9 I like her writing, mostly I like her views, but not today. She talks about women’s bodies and...
10:52 Sun 29th Nov 202042 answers, last by allenlondon 19:57 Sun 29th Nov 2020
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May All Sentient Beings

May all sentient beings be filled with lovingkindness and happiness. May they wish to become healing herbs in the days of epidemics to cure the ill. May they wish to become rice plants in the days of...
08:17 Sun 29th Nov 20207 answers, last by allenlondon 16:49 Sun 29th Nov 2020
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Croesus In Charge?

Try this for size. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/huge-wealth-of-sunaks-family-not-declared-in-ministerial-register Apparently ‘our’ chancellor’s family is SO rich they knock Mrs...
08:56 Sat 28th Nov 2020104 answers, last by allenlondon 08:00 Sun 29th Nov 2020
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What Sort Of World?

Watching an old “999: What’s your emergency?” (S11, E2, 12/10/20). One small scene. Two coppers called to a ‘break in’. Found a teenage girl who’d jumped over the gate of a closed Co-op, stealing...
21:08 Wed 25th Nov 202052 answers, last by allenlondon 14:53 Thu 26th Nov 2020
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Hubris

No, neither a phrase nor a saying. Help me with this. What is a precise (preferably one word) opposite of ‘hubris’? I know what it means, and I know its opposite, but none of the standard antonyms...
08:37 Wed 25th Nov 202021 answers, last by allenlondon 11:36 Thu 26th Nov 2020
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Tumbledrier In Bedroom

Did I dream it, or did someone say recently that they had a tumbledrier in their bedroom? What sort could it be? - we couldn’t vent it without building work, but the idea of a tumbledrier now appeals...
15:02 Tue 24th Nov 202025 answers, last by sherrardk 02:20 Wed 25th Nov 2020
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Hardly Literature

Trying to find the limerick about a young lady from Thanet who somehow had a bruised pomegranate... Anyone know it? Ta....
07:04 Tue 24th Nov 20204 answers, last by allenlondon 15:03 Tue 24th Nov 2020
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Mrs A Gets Along

News for those ABers kind enough to have expressed concern and interest in Mrs A’s illness. After 12 days in the cardio unit she has gone down from 91.6 kg to 77.7, nearly all of it the oedema fluid....
16:08 Mon 23rd Nov 202041 answers, last by Sqad 14:29 Fri 27th Nov 2020
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Painful Open Wounds

I know I've visited this problem before, but as no resolution, thought I'd try again. I have a large (30mm diameter) surface ulcer on the back of my calf which I wash in saline and cover daily with...
10:43 Sun 22nd Nov 202014 answers, last by allenlondon 13:44 Sun 22nd Nov 2020

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