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Buying A Lightweight Suitcase

Where would you go to buy a light weight, cheapish, middle size suitcase? Off out shopping tomorrow, but would like some ideas what stores to visit. Thanks Abers x...

pinkcowprint

Changing Price Of A Confirmed Hotel Booking?any Rights??

i booked a hotel for majorca in june,paid for and confirmation voucher been sent,they have now emailed me to say the tour operator has made a pricing error and they are trying to find us alternative...

bond

Single Person, Own Home, With Pension, Will Not Leave Anything To Family - Is It Worth Taking Equity ?

Hi, situation with an old single person on a pension who has no dependants and distant relatives, owns a home outright, therefore does not want to leave the property to any family member upon death,...

Prudie

Losing Sky In The Rain

Does anyone else lose their Sky signal in the slightest rain or snow? We do all the time, I'm sure there's something wrong with the receiver?

smurfchops

R I P Michael Winner

What more can I say, a true gent, funny, flamboyant, he will be greatly missed.

chipmunkmike

Smoke Alarm Sounding In Cold Weather

I live in a flat above my place of work. During the early hours of the morning the work smoke alarms sometimes go off. I have checked the reason online and found it is possibly due to condensation...

squidgelet10

"road Closed" Signs - Legality.

Greetings each. I expect this question has been posed many times! During the recent flooding it appears the police have been dishing out £60 fixed penalty tickets (+3 penalty points) to drivers who...

lostboy87

Pilot Light Wont Stay On,on My Combi.

Hi all need help. Pilot light went out on my worcester bosh 240 combi.I cant get it to ignite but can light it manually.It all works fine for a while but then the gas shuts itself again.This keeps...

davidanthony

Modified Core Drill

I need a tool something like a core drill to round off the base of 50 Xmas trees each year so they fit into a 75mm dia x 300mmlong metal tube on a bracket affixed to houses in our village. Currently...

Mosaic

Walk-In Bath - Any Ab Tips?

The aged P's will be investing in a walk-bath soon, and I wondered if Abers had any advice they would care to pass on regarding types or possible pitfalls. My only priority to pass on to the project...

Puzzled001

Loss Of 'power' Using Extension Cables ?

Hi, Is there a significant 'loss of power' using a 100m/2.5t&e extention cable. Never thought of it before but a contractor remarked that his SDS power drill seemed 'under-powered' and thought it...

AndiFlatland

Neodymium Magnetic Cubes

I was thinking of buying one of these - plenty available on Amazon - but suddenly had a moment of apprehension: I keep a very large private archive of audio and video recordings from radio and TV, and...

davidanthony

Battery Drain

I recently saw a battery drain problem was due to a faulty heater LSR Last Stage (Hedgehog) Resistor on a BMW 5 Series even when the ignition was switched off. Is this little critter in heater...

millerxxx

Mixer

i need a spare part for my breadmixer anyone know of a company that does happy new year...

TWR

Would You Take The Time?

How many pot holes have you come across during your daily travels? how many have you swerved to avoid? how many has your car hit because you can not avoid them? I do report them to the local Highways...

hammerman

Epson Printer Help Needed

Yet again, i turn to you wonderful people for help. I have an Epson stylus SX445W wireless printer. A few weeks ago, the wife was printing a large A4 photo out and it stopped printing halfway through...

Gromit

Are The Police Out Of Control?

From the Daily Telegraph: // In the eyes of its natural supporters, the police force is beginning to look and act like a law unto itself? Even before the shocking possibility opened up this week in...

Annieliz

Executor No Longer Practicing Solicitor

Can anyone help - my Aunt recently died and named me and a solicitor as executors in her will. The solicitor is now living in France and their practice closed many years ago. But the original will is...

has

Dvla...

Who knew that DVLA, in their wisdom are closing all local offices by December 2013? WHAT A DISGRACE. They want everything to be either sent through the post or to update changes on the internet. Just...

jan01

First Time Buyer

how vital is it to have a survey done on a 14year old house?? it seems very expensive......

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