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Re: Steadying the ship - a perilous voyage across the financial middle

Alchemilla

16 August at 8:22PM

Happy weekend Ed! Glad you and the family are well 😁

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Re: 2026 - consolidation and calm

jwil

16 August at 2:47PM

Thank you all 😁 I'm very pleased, and my motivation is high at the moment. I've been keeping up with surveys and cashed out today, so can PAD a bit more tomorrow. It's amazing how muc…

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Re: Make Do, Mend & Minimise

Esmeralda2662

16 August at 6:02PM

@maryb had to smile about your pillow stuffing. It brought back memories of me and my husband buying 5 secondhand eiderdowns to make into a duvet in the 80's because proper duvets were expensive…

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Re: Old Style Daily Monday 17 August 2026

Gers

17 August at 8:13AM

Later! Yesterday was good. Breakfast bacon rolls with old friends and a long catch up. Then I met up with the friends of friends who, despite my fears, are a delightfully quirky and interesting famil…

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Re: Old Style Daily Monday 17 August 2026

Gers

17 August at 7:28AM

Morning again - murky here too. Happy new term @camelot1001. More later x

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Re: Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Merlin139

17 August at 6:08AM

Cloudy all day bar around an hour. Some rain after dark. 2.15 O's

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Re: Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

debitcardmayhem

16 August at 9:06PM

3.54 Os lots of cloud, but perversely my gen peaked at over4.1 kW in the middle of the free hour 🤷🏻

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Re: Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

pete-20-11

16 August at 8:39PM

Just 3.92 Os today

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Re: Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Netexporter

16 August at 8:23PM

3.78 Os for me. I'm quite enjoying the dullness and relative cool.

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Re: Old Style Daily Monday 17 August 2026

camelot1001

17 August at 7:11AM

Morning All Thanks for the starts Gers and Scarlet. It's misty and murky this morning with rain due for the rest of the day, don't think it's far away. Yesterday was showers on and off…

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