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Gadget
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Today is my Uncles funeral, known the date for a couple of weeks now. I've rearranged quite a few things and turned other things down as this was more important. I was going with my parents as it's in West Brom and I just can't get there else. Had a phone call last night from my parents telling me they aren't going after all. This will be the 3rd family funeral we'll not have attended and it's really starting to look bad. I feel really guilty but not a lot I can do about it. 
staffordjas
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Got all excited to receive a voucher through the door in todays post, with my Co-op dividends statement, for a box of 'Free Thorntons Chocolates when you spend £10 or more'. Then noticed the expiry date to use it by was yesterday! 
Perrier
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POLITE WARNING !
For Those of you who are placing Hue Christmas lights in your garden, can you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together?
Every time people come around the corner, they think it's the police and they have a panic attack.
they have to brake hard, toss wine out the window, hide the weed, fasten the seat belt, throw the phone on the floor, turn the radio down, and push the gun under the seat, all while trying to drive.
It's just too much drama, even for Christmas.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding
For Those of you who are placing Hue Christmas lights in your garden, can you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together?
Every time people come around the corner, they think it's the police and they have a panic attack.
they have to brake hard, toss wine out the window, hide the weed, fasten the seat belt, throw the phone on the floor, turn the radio down, and push the gun under the seat, all while trying to drive.
It's just too much drama, even for Christmas.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding
staffordjas
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Often think I've got the cops behind me down the motorway, only to find it's a HGV with blue xmas lights in the cab window.
Mikinton
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Every time I go under a gantry I think I've been flashed by a speed camera. I've got used to it now, but it was a bit disconcerting at first.
BobClay
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Couple of years ago I got knobbled by a speed camera at 4am in the morning driving through roadworks on the M5 near Sedgemoor with a 50mph limit. (Nobody was working on the site.) There was very little traffic and my speed was recorded at 58mph.
Fortunately I was offered a 'Speed Awareness Course' in lieu of a fine and penalty points. In all fairness I found the one morning course a bit of an eye opener. The instructors on the course mentioned at the time that a 'zero tolerance' policy was being considered with regard to speeding. It doesn't require much in the way of man hours on Motorways, cameras and computers can handle pretty much all of it. Technically, they stated, you could lose your licence in one day if you were caught on camera multiple times.
So it isn't so much cops I watch out for now, but camera signs. (I have a dark desire to be 'discovered' !!!
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Fortunately I was offered a 'Speed Awareness Course' in lieu of a fine and penalty points. In all fairness I found the one morning course a bit of an eye opener. The instructors on the course mentioned at the time that a 'zero tolerance' policy was being considered with regard to speeding. It doesn't require much in the way of man hours on Motorways, cameras and computers can handle pretty much all of it. Technically, they stated, you could lose your licence in one day if you were caught on camera multiple times.
So it isn't so much cops I watch out for now, but camera signs. (I have a dark desire to be 'discovered' !!!
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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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Looking good!!
My husband is wrapping gifts as I type!
A fair deal, I do all the buying / organising and he wraps them! His first class degree in engineering is really being put to the test with some of the gifts this year...
BobClay
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Very wild night down here last night. In Bude Sainsbury's lost their roof !!! (It is pretty exposed sitting on high ground overlooking the sea.) I went up on my roof in a north wind that cut like a Katana (Samurai sword) because an aerial stay needed tightening, but nothing came down so I was able to scurry back indoors. 
BobClay
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Not as far as I know. Bude has been pretty much sealed off with never ending roadworks for about a month, this storm has apparently transported the entire town into some kind of impenetrable alternate Universe. A sort of black hole !!! … lots of things go in, nothing comes out. 
Cue
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Very wild night down here last night. In Bude Sainsbury's lost their roof !!! (It is pretty exposed sitting on high ground overlooking the sea.) I went up on my roof in a north wind that cut like a Katana (Samurai sword) because an aerial stay needed tightening, but nothing came down so I was able to scurry back indoors.
Is the Bude Tunnel okay?
staffordjas
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Bought son a tree for his new house, and helped to put it up (well, stood holding the top part while he assembled the rest...)
BobClay
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Couldn't get into Bude today as the area around Sainsbury's is sealed off, and that's after you've negotiated the road works that would give a Panzer Division a hard time … !! I was sort of hoping to get some pix but stopping wasn't an option. I haven't heard that the tunnel is damaged. Might try again in a day or so. 
littleme
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Couldn't get into Bude today as the area around Sainsbury's is sealed off, and that's after you've negotiated the road works that would give a Panzer Division a hard time … !! I was sort of hoping to get some pix but stopping wasn't an option. I haven't heard that the tunnel is damaged. Might try again in a day or so.
12 whole firefighters were in attendance!
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-updates-bude-sainsburys-remains-3622241
Glam
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I do like a man in uniform!
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