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Only use main dealers to buy a new car and for servicing while the car is still on warranty. Servicing aged vehicles with them will cost a packet and some overly-pushy salesman will probably suggest 'time for a new car madam?' As has been said a mobile mechanic or a local independent garage are...

Does he? As an irregular correspondent on this forum I'm not up to speed with who's who and where they live but Dingo should have alerted me, oops :mad:

Are you 60 or over? If so I'd recommend the NHS free eye test. Boots offer it, not sure about other opticians. It seems thorough, testing for glaucoma, cataracts, retinal detachment and whatever, as well as the usual longsight and shortsight Amazing machinery they use, including one that...

All you'll need is reading glasses if the problem is just the familiar one of having to extend arms to focus on text Specsavers will no doubt offer you a customised pair, at a price, or you could go to WH Smith (TG Jones :) ) and test their cheapos One customised pair and several cheapos - one...

BBC4 is currently re-showing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories from the 1980s with that fine actress Joan Hickson in the title role. All available on iPlayer Ripping yarns they are, if a bit the past is another country, they do things differently there if viewed through today's jaded eyes

This article describes in rather more detail what I was getting at. Though hardly revelatory and deeply insightful, just the bleedin' obvious. Prohibition is self-defeating (n) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/02/france-marine-le-pen-conviction-far-right-national-rally

Be careful what you wish for. She might be down but her party and others elsewhere on the far-right will relish milking her new status of 'martyr' to the cause. 'Je suis Marine' blab the expected: Orban, Meloni, Wilders et al Crininal indictments didn't do Trump any harm did they; quite the...

Was this the critter? A queen buff-tailed bumblebee, the largest of the bumblebees, over an inch long This is a good time of year to see queen bees and wasps on the wing as they're emerging from hibernation and in search of nest sites

It strikes me that the racing bubble is inflated to bursting point, so wouldn't be surprised if some/several courses are struggling I've enjoyed all the racecourses I've visited (about half of them) as each is unique - vive la difference - but Redcar is not especially appealing, though I...

Wrong thread :) That has an interesting answer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15458633 I heard woodpeckers 'drumming' just the other day: a remarkable sound

A sad tale indeed. Given that the bodies weren't found until a week or more after they died suggests to me that the wife acted as full-time carer for her desperately ill husband without the third-party 'home help' that one might have expected a wealthy couple to employ: maintaining independence...

Charlie Woods was a jockey and contemporary of Fred Archer; and being born in Hull, just down the road from Beverley presumably explains the race's change of name The Ebor Meeting is over-chock with Group 1s and I'd have preferred the G2 Hungerford Stakes - run just a week or so earlier - to...

Love grows where my Rosemary goes Or as my 10 year old kid brother was fond of hollering during their several week stay at No.1 on Top of the Pops Love grows up Rosemary's nose :) A cherished song I hadn't heard for a long time until recently is Have You Seen Her by The Chi-Lites

Dubai Disneyland Primark 'A night out with the lads' Re: Wetherspoons. Tim Martin is a jerk but I've a soft spot for the pubs, mainly because they tend to be renovations of fine old buildings, therefore saving many an architectural gem from demolition. So, one can sit and soak-up a cheap pint...

Wot, no cricketers? :oops: Don Bradman and Shane Warne Legendary status is given a leg-up by having a distinctive and memorable name, epitomised by Lester Piggott, Stirling Moss, Babe Ruth & Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali; and a George Best was never destined to grind out his career with Accrington...

An impossible task indeed but three 'all time fvourites' are: Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Of those mentioned, Forever Changes would be high on my list too as would Highway 61 Revisited. As for The...

My sole visit to a Sandown NH meeting happened to be that memorable day. I was in London for an extended-family reunion and managed to excuse myself from the forced jollities for an altogether more relaxing afternoon in Esher. The train from Waterloo was abuzz with anticipation. It was a grey...

An innocent nursery rhyme compared with this: 'hurry down the chimney tonight' ooh Matron!

The Weatherby's crudity filter must have been malfunctioning when Fircombe Hall was submitted; that or they had a teenage intern manning it that day He's been regularly opening his legs and showing his class around the gaffs for several years The sire is Charming Thought...

Nah, he's not Hitler; the way Trump juts and struts reminds me far more of Mussolini