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Re: Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

Tresinia511

11 May at 9:51AM

Dia good soup is the key to happy living. My oh has an allotment and he makes lots of them using every root, leaf and veg he digs up ! Do you have a bread maker? This is such a great team mate for so…

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Re: Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

jwil

11 May at 7:39AM

Good luck with DL. What language are you doing? I enjoy it.

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Re: Quick £200-£250 payday loan

R_P_W

11 May at 2:21PM

Do not, do not, DO NOT take a payday loan. What is going to have changed in your financial circumstances next month when you have to pay back the loan amount plus the stupendous levels of interest? T…

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Re: +++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

redofromstart

11 May at 3:12PM

Thank you all. Greenbee I generally either try to go to places on weekdays and/or go first thing in the morning if they are only open at weekends. That said I did go into the local market town today …

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Re: defective finish on shower now exposing brass

Ergates

10 May at 4:04PM

A mild cleaner, e.g. those daily shower sprays would likely be OK too. The problem is the Viakal. It's very good at what it does, but it's highly corrosive and will damage a lot of surfaces. Basical…

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Re: Moving on

pennywisepoundstupid

11 May at 7:09AM

Sounds as though you had a lovely rime away, Ireland is on my travel bucket list.

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Re: Moving on

rtandon27

11 May at 4:41AM

What a lovely recount of your time away - sounds like a recharge was had.🥰

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Re: Wondering about legal action for advice to my parents on putting their house into a trust

Keep_pedalling

11 May at 2:48PM

In does not matter if an individual adviser has left a company the company are still liable for poor advice provided by on of their advisors Perhaps @dunstonh could comment on this.

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Re: Bank paid me interest within an hour of funding new a/c

wmb194

11 May at 9:34AM

If I reply to this will it cancel the auto bump?

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Re: ECP DCB Legal - ticket for "parking" out of hours

Gr1pr

9 May at 3:48PM

Monday at 4pm is your deadline, never on a weekend

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Re: Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

Re: Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

Re: Quick £200-£250 payday loan

Re: +++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

Re: defective finish on shower now exposing brass

Re: Moving on

Re: Moving on

Re: Wondering about legal action for advice to my parents on putting their house into a trust

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