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That’s not a bad idea - I take a Bose mini into the bathroom when having a bath, to listen to podcasts; that would make that unnecessary.

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Cheap ones can be had from Ebay/Amazon from around the £200 but SWMBO decided we needed an expensive one.....

http://www.roperrhodes.co.uk/product.../#.XGrj1dHgrOQ is the one i bought, but did not pay the price listed on the link !!!

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:omg::eeek:

I’ll stick to the Bose mini... :D

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So how much did you get suckered into paying then?

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I'm a sucker now, care to explain why?

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I paid £15 -20 years ago for my bathroom cabinet , i don't feel i have had my money's worth out of it yet [it doesn't play music ];)

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Bluetooth makes everything better

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A kitten, and a nest thermostat. The two are unrelated though.

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Bluetooth kitten you say..... :)

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Only toiletries from Superdrugs. Nothing very exciting in the department stores for something to wear, Rails and rails of sales but not worth buying any

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How do you know - they might be from the same litter...

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It might be if it stayed still long enough... though not sure where I'd plug it in....

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I said thermostat - not thermocat

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Two trays of steak mince one tray of lamb shops and one tray of icing buns fro Costco ,

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New airbrush: Iwata Eclipse HP-CS

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Loaf of sliced tiger bread!

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Just renewed my RAC Breakdown Cover using Tesco Clubcard Vouchers.

So for £45 in vouchers i am pretty much fully covered for RAC breakdown with most normal options.

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Well done Snoopz great idea, You must have had a lot of points

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I do it every year with RAC, i shop at Tesco every week as well with my petrol and also use a Tesco Credit Card to pay for everything which also gives points, so it is easy to get points.

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I have £36 of points on my Nectar car, thanks to a fortnightly fill up at BP and double/treble point bonuses on fuel builds up.

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I just bought a 1TB Samsung Portable SSD T5, to go in my camera bag.


I need a bigger camera bag as the one my dad gave is too small to carry all my current kit, and so I've been advised by the camera bods at work look at Lowpro.

So I'll get one when I see one I like, along woth a Nikon 105mm Macro lens.

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A two Terabyte HDD to upgrade my desktop PC. The 1/2T data drive is bursting at the seams with HD movies and TV series as well as my ripped music CD collection and photo library.

I've backed all the sub 4.3 GByte files to a portable 1T USB drive that I use with the laptop and the Smart TV and now just need to copy several larger files temporarilly to the system SSD. (The PC only has 2 SATA ports)

Unfortunately the PC only has USB 2 (480 mbs) so I've calculated that it will take almost 6 days to copy the whole lot back to the new disk. At least it's only a single command to do it so I can just leave it running. PC is on 24/7 as I use it as a media server as well as for work stuff.

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Could you disconnect the SSD and connect up the new HD?

Then boot from a live Linux distro and copy the data between the 2 HD's.

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I guess that's a way of doing it faster but I'm half way there already so I'll stick with it. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm going to have to think about a new build soon as this machine is rather long in the tooth though still quite capable.

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My 1,000 Blu-Ray/DVD title.

Bohemian Rhapsody Steelbook Amazon Edition

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23 fresh large chicken breast fillets for £23.

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A ceramic frying pan, my none stick pan doesn't work any more.

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Job lot of 1:72 scale aircraft models from Japan to put in the stash. Hopefully these slip under the customs radar unlike the last one.

I've been building a couple of combat aircraft in that scale over the past couple of weeks - Always a challenge.

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Electric toothbrush

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Curry powder mild of course.

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A silver 16 plate Mondeo estate titanium - 22400 miles from Ford dealer. It's a petrol so much rarer at the moment than diesel (and no-one wants the 1.5 diesel). I did see others better value but they are hundreds of km away and local buying is more useful when things go wrong.

Downside is we need to borrow to buy so the dealer HP or highstreet, the later is cheaper by over £100 a month but HP is secured on the car so can hand back if payment issues and can pay early with no fees which we hope to do around Oct/Nov. But fees are now controlled.

We didn't want to borrow but my VM shares are no longer growing as they were in Jan and we need the bigger car before October. My wife's Fiesta would be too tight for our camping holiday.

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Another vintage Swatch watch.

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Flights to Rome in June, and booked AirBnB for 3 nights in Rome (then catching the fast train to Florence, hire a car and drive around North Italy for 4 days).

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Birthday and anniversary cards as there is not a week this month that it's not someones special day :)

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Vouchers from Slaters for a Birthday present for my son,

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Bits and bobs for when youngest son moves into his brother's room in June, we have a lot of work ahead of us as eldest son moves out start of May and his brother wants to totally revamp his room he wants the wall paper removed and walls plastered, laminate floor lifted and carpet down, new double bed and all that goes with that plus he wants the cupboard made into a wardrobe so his new bedroom will be our holiday this year as we can't do everything but our youngest said giving the choice holiday or bedroom done he picks bedroom as he has waited 16 years for this room lol


Sister in Law 60th birthday gift personalized wooden wine box with a bottle of fizz inside of course.

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About 6 weeks ago I bought a Rollei City Traveler XL Tripod Titanium (Carbon fibre legs)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1


The last week I bought a Rollei City Traveler XL Tripod Titanium (Carbon fibre legs)


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not bad for around £200.

Next on my List is the Nikon 105mm Macro lens but at £850 I'll get it on my Credit Card at the very end of April, and pay off in June.

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Overnight bag plus bits and bobs for my Dad as he is going into hospital tomorrow, will be taking him to Hairmyres at 09:30.

I pray he behaves and does as he is told.

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Hootoo Tripmate Nano - wireless USB reader.

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Silver Cross Pioneer Pram and Pushchair as our contribution to the upcoming new addition to our family (my daughter is predicted to produce the offspring mid-August, but John Lewis reduced this by £145, and it was the one they wanted, so seemed silly not to).

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I have purchased a HDMI switch box.

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A solid oak sideboard piece of furniture that I picked up for £15


Bargain!

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Hoover bags.

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new chair for home office

Today I got Judas Priests first album (Rocka Rolla)

The notes for this album said the band members said there was technical problem and there was HISS all thru the album and it had poor sound....

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFi...cka_Rolla.html

I DONT HEAR ANY HI$$ AND IT SOUNDS GOREGOUS!!! -- 10/10

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Tamiya Lunchbox - Old school nostalgia

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Recently: A PCI 2.3 to twin SATA II adaptor card off ebay for £10 delivered to enable me to add more HDD storage to my (old) media server PC. Took a bit of finding as most PCI cards are now the "e" version. Even more work to find a suitable driver.

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Hope he is OK Weenie. ;)

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Renewed car insurance - renewal quote was for £741.44 for two cars, rang up and had a chat, it's now £631.68 (saving of £110).

Folks, don't just accept renewal quotes - ring up and get a better deal.

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I would say don't accept the quote but do it online using a cash back site like topcashback then phone up and compare.

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Well done Hugh, Something nice yo look forward too. ;)

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I have never used a cash back site scoopz, How do the work,

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You visit the cashback site create a free account and then if you want to buy something at say Debenhams you type that in the search box and it tells you what % cash back you will get if any, then click through to that site, then eventually you will get some money added to your account.

No tricks or anything it is very simple, just make sure you don't have an adblocker running in your browser so they can track for CLICK.

I use https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ and you don't need an account to do a search and see what % you will get back.

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I renew my wife's car with RAC (current supplier as price was best on comparison sites) and car isn't worth major haggling.

My new car I had a good quote from the RAC but watched the price rising each time I did a quote even on same data. Got a quote from NFU Mutual. A bit more but can pay over year at 0% and they have a better reputation. Hard to compare as RAC include keys/locks and NFU don't but NFU include other things that RAC charge extra for. I though it worth paying a bit extra as the car is worth more.

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Coffee beans

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Too much.

Over £1,200 on Amazon this year.

I should smash last years total at that rate.

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A laptop from BHF charity shop ebay… £26 + 9.50 p&p.
Not a fantastic spec, basic function tested (battery works but run time not specified, includes PSU).
1GB RAM (I'll slam that up to 4GB), and I might even try slapping the best Socket P 800 FSB CPU in that I can bag for a song on ebay (T1600 Celeron in it), from what I can discern, the chipset it has supports 800FSB and RAM, while the Celeron is 667FSB, so the best likely upgrade would be 50% more GHz, more FSB, and 3-4x the L2 cache

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2Tb Seagate Barracuda hard drive to replace the 120Gb Seagate drive that died this week.

I first installed it in September 2004!

The new one cost £53, the old one £122!

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Consider getting a smaller SSD for the system and apps and use the 2T for data. The SSD will really boost the PC's speed.

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I agree as you can get a 120GB SSD for less than £20 now.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Te...ay&sr=8-3&th=1

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It'll be the backup disk for data, as was the old one. SSD would be a waste of time for my Vista PC.

Yeah, yeah, one day I'll upgrade my OS, but the moment it's not broke so.... ;)

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Well I'm still on XP SP3 for the main and media server but the SSD still made a world of difference. As you say if it ain't broke don't fix it. :D

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Paint

Specifically Goosedown if you will (how this varies from light grey I have no idea)

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I saw you as more of a Farrow and Ball man, myself... ;)

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I don't have a say, I'm just the bank :D

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Getting used to my new Kensington Trackball mouse.

Different button layout.

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Black & Decker light weight Vacuum cleaner. I had £60 in Nectar points so just had to pay £39 99". Looking forward to using it.

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DBX 286S Mic Preamp/Compressor

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Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 to replace a slow Nexus 10 with a burnt screen and knackered battery, very pleased with it so far for a mid range tablet and the build quality is great.

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Pens.

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I'm looking at buy a Nikon SB-910 Speedflash, and a Nikon ME-1 microphone, but but are still out of stock on Amazon.

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Just read the SB-910 is discontinued, so bought the SB-700

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Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter.



https://www.amazon.co.uk/UBIQUITI-Ne.../dp/B011N1IT2A


Lots of possibilities in a small box. Looking forward to setting this up.

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Spooky!

I just got one of these : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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I was initially going to go with the USG but wanted a few more ports.
They are quite similar.

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This is a great Tablet. We have had one for over a year and it is a fantastic size and no problem with it ;)

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I just bought a Nikon SB-700 Speedlight.

I need to stop buying camera equipment. near 3£k since mid Jan :o

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It is an excellent flash, have fun experimenting with it.

Stock up on rechargeable batteries. High capacity Amazon basics are a good bet.

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The USG is a bit better spec'd - but lack of ports is a pain.

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Sheets and pillow cases from The House of Bath sale

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A productive visit to Marks and Spencers. £2 pair of jeans (reduced from £30) and £5 cotton shirt (reduced from £25). Almost giving stuff away atm, must be desperate times for them; the pensioners were fighting in the aisles over cheap cardigans ;)

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A Pizza

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Bray Super Light Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings

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Bottle of Highland Park Viking Honour 12YO Single Malt, and 3 bottles of Red (Shiraz, Burgundy, and Pinot Noir).

My two brothers-in-law are arriving this afternoon (one from Connecticut and one from Hampshire), so want to be well prepared for after dinner drinks.

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Great minds think alike. 12 bottles of finest plonk. God bless the Sainsbury's 25% off wine deal :)

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A PATA (IDE) to dual SATA adapter board. The PCI card that I tried doesn't do DMA* whereas this arrangement will. That's vital to be able to play large (>10 GByte) HD video files without stuttering using the media server.

Now works a treat. :)

*Direct Memory Access: A method of data transfer that bypasses the CPU and is fast.

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l will make sure you are barred from my local then.;)

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A warm lumber Jacket, we are in Elgin for two days, I am frozen ,

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Won't they get wet?

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They will if you wash them.;)

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That's why I never wash mine. I just beat them with a stick every now and then to break up the crusty bits

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I bought sheets and Pillow cases the other week from them too, Great Sale prices and beautiful too ;)

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It’s when they fight back you have to start worrying...

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I bought some AA Energizer rechargeable (2300mHa)

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Now TV 6 month entertainment pass ready for GOT tomorrow.

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Have you got the beers in for the early hours of tomorrow morning.;)

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Bollocks to that! haha i will watch it Monday evening. ;)

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Same here SnoopZ as family matters have to take precedence until after lunchtime tomorrow as l don't want to be in the doghouse yet again.;):D

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A new 3 piece suit from TK Maxx. £199 original ticket price but got it for £58.

Bargin and it looks great too. Needed for my upcoming job interviews. tried on my other suit and the trousers are now too tight. oops.

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Anyone read those articles dotted around e.g. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a7655806.html

In summary and using illustrative figures
£5 wine : £1 VAT, £3 duty, £1.50 costs (including retailer) = 50p for wine
£10 wine : £2 VAT, £3 duty, £2.00 costs = £3.00 for wine

Double price but 6x value on wine.

Go too high you usually pay for the name.

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SONY WF1000X Wireless Bluetooth Noise-Cancelling Headphones.

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A zipped cardigan in a nice warm wine colour,

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Shoes. :)

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Replacement oscillating bridge components for my series 3 Braun electric shaver. Many of the ( black ) parts have simply worn out. Thought it was getting a bit weak. I don't need to replace the white part. Fortunate as I don't know how to get the darn thing apart to get too it.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2019/04/5.jpg

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High speed train tickets from Rome to Florence for our holiday in Italy in June.

Not a bad price - buying in advance meant I got First Class seats for a journey taking 1 hour 20 minutes to travel 140 miles for only 41.15 Euros each, or £35.60 each.

And considering I renewed my Home Insurance (Building, Contents, including annual Holiday Insurance), and saved just over £100 with a phone call, I'm quids in... :-)