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Enjoying a drop of red.
I'd imagine it's to help get rid of the hangovers from his trips to the two nearest acceptable pubs.Don't you drink an awful lot of coffee??!!
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I'd imagine it's to help get rid of the hangovers from his trips to the two nearest acceptable pubs.Don't you drink an awful lot of coffee??!!
If you shop in Sainsbury's & have a Nectar card....lots of Heinz products are now half price, till the 3rd September only...
Baked beans
Spaghetti
Tomato sauce
Mayonnaise
BBQ sauce
Salad cream
Soup
Pasta sauces
If you don't have a Nectar card...there are some available near the entrance, or ask the lovely lady that's wandering around handing them out, it might be me it might not......
Ooh. I have one of them in the garage.Another bargain has been under assessment tonight. I have four of these small Philips radio/CD devices, one in Stafford and three in Ireland, one in the shed, one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. They are generally used for the radio and as amplifiers for the computer outputs.
They are conveniently small but reliable devices for what I want from them - and having the same remote control everywhere is a great benefit - no "hunting for buttons" all the time.
In June, whilst in Ireland, I spotted one for sale in Burton, in a second-hand shop's eBay listing. It had one base unit, plus two remote controls and four of the bookshelf speakers. It started at £5 and so I kept an eye on it and ended up getting it all for that - but, it needed picking up, so I got a friend* in Burton to collect it and the transfer to me finally occurred in the Burston Greyhound car park on Friday.
A quick test just now has revealed that it all seems to largely work OK, although a little clean of the contacts of one of the remotes would help.
A great result and I can now have another set-up in another room that will be brought into better use.
My eBay search brought up another item today - someone is offering the appropriate instruction booklet starting at £5 - even though you can find the text easily online.
I think I got the better deal.
* @Colossal's sister-in-law.
The volume control knob and the CD player will become unreliable sometimes, but I don't use the CD and the remote will control the volume reliably.Ooh. I have one of them in the garage.
I have bought some 'used' things on eBay bidding system recently.... I'm hugely surprised that the items (nearly £200 each) I bought were actual unused items, never unboxed, and didnt arrive as Brick's in boxs.... my faith in humanity is restored & there are some lovely people out there.Another bargain has been under assessment tonight. I have four of these small Philips radio/CD devices, one in Stafford and three in Ireland, one in the shed, one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. They are generally used for the radio and as amplifiers for the computer outputs.
They are conveniently small but reliable devices for what I want from them - and having the same remote control everywhere is a great benefit - no "hunting for buttons" all the time.
In June, whilst in Ireland, I spotted one for sale in Burton, in a second-hand shop's eBay listing. It had one base unit, plus two remote controls and four of the bookshelf speakers. It started at £5 and so I kept an eye on it and ended up getting it all for that - but, it needed picking up, so I got a friend* in Burton to collect it and the transfer to me finally occurred in the Burston Greyhound car park on Friday.
A quick test just now has revealed that it all seems to largely work OK, although a little clean of the contacts of one of the remotes would help.
A great result and I can now have another set-up in another room that will be brought into better use.
My eBay search brought up another item today - someone is offering the appropriate instruction booklet starting at £5 - even though you can find the text easily online.
I think I got the better deal.
* @Colossal's sister-in-law.
Mine has a bluetooth receiver plugged in to make Spotify a more melodious experience than it would otherwise be listening to it on the smartphone's speakers.The volume control knob and the CD player will become unreliable sometimes, but I don't use the CD and the remote will control the volume reliably.
The one in the Shed is currently driving a pair of Celestions under the desk, but they may move into the house, now that I have a spare shelf pair. The storage above the desk will be rearranged in the winter and the speakers can go up there then.
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When Dave Gorman's father left GEC for the second time, the management were so arsey about it that they wouldn't let there be a leaving do anywhere on site, not even in Stychfields Hall.I have bought some 'used' things on eBay bidding system recently.... I'm hugely surprised that the items (nearly £200 each) I bought were actual unused items, never unboxed, and didnt arrive as Brick's in boxs.... my faith in humanity is restored & there are some lovely people out there.
My buys were nintendo switches...I accidentally bid on 2 & got both, neither had ever been used & I got them for way under the bidding price.... I really expected them to turn up broken or as bricks...When Dave Gorman's father left GEC for the second time, the management were so arsey about it that they wouldn't let there be a leaving do anywhere on site, not even in Stychfields Hall.
We had a whip-round and I went all round the town to buy appropriate stuff for gifts, spending it down to the last penny in the sweet shop by the chemist on Wolverhampton Road.
That evening the gifts were dispensed to him on the stage in the Polish Club. He was suitably amused by the string of stuff that appeared, until we got to the last item, a large printed box, hidden under a cloth, to hide its identity.
He had a reputation for buying things in threes - at the time he had three houses, three Lancia Gamma cars, etc. He had two Atari computers, in case one failed and had bought two of their hard discs, for the same reason.
We had saved the box from one of the company's Atari hard discs and placed a brick in it, very close to the size and weight of the real thing.
He was truly horrified when we gave it to him with "It'll be alright, nobody here'll tell 'em."