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@ Nash and ....Hope you and nash get well soon, i'm trying my hardest to not to come into contact with the winter lurgies that so many of my virtual friends seem to have at the moment. No way do I want to have to go into full isolation again and wearing strings of garlic is sooo 'last year' don't ya know.

As for my boots well they are bright cherry red but <<big sigh>> I can't wear high heels anymore, <<big cry>>. I don't need my sticks anymore but my dodgy balance makes walking in heels a high impact sport. :D Still it has given me the excuse to buy lots of new shoes and boots with 'safe' low heels. YAY

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As you already know Jo old age does not come by itself. I was the first in my class aged 14 to have a pair of stilettos. Ive had to give up heels long ago. Comfort is what I seek these days, and I am very happy with my lot.:notopic:

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Bits and bobs at Home Bargains.

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Shopping for a few things at Aldi

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Just paid my mooring fees, ouch.

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Not beer.

The wholesaler increased prices by 21%, that means the retail price would be OVER the Minimum Unit Price that hasn't even started yet.

Some retailers have cut their mark-up, but mine joined others in refusing to buy it at that price.

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Witherspoons are reducing the price of beer from 31 January to celebrate Brexit, I think it has to last into a date in Febuary

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What no discount for you papa.;)

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Headphones and a mini amplifier to plug them into for a hard-of-hearing neighbour who refuses to wear his NHS hearing aids to listen to TV.

All the other alternatives were bluetooth which his TV doesn't support.

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A Phillips Hue Motion Sensor, to put in out shed that will turn on the light in there when I open the door, as i often forget to get Alexa to turn it on.

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I find a switch to be a reliable item. :erm:

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I have a lot of Hue lights, but these are way over priced. I do use these though as they are a better alternative (Price wise). They are a godsend for our hallway.

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

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ESTA check (passed, phew...) for our trip to Florida in March - did it in advance, as if there were any problems, you have to go to the US Embassy for further discussions, and there can be a six week wait for appointments (and they don't care if you trip is before that).

Better safe than sorry.

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iPad Pro 12.9" 256GB Space Grey (re yesterday's "Moan and Pet Hate").

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That costs over £1000, wasn't the refurb price a far better deal?

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Several prototype printed circuits (PCBs) 2 layer and 4 layer with Newbury Electronics "PCB train" service for a client.

Not cheap but they are reliable and the quality is good. They can do a one day turn round but that really costs so I've get them on 10 working day to help keep the price down.

Everything is done on-line and if they have a query then it's usually resolved by e-mails.

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Bronze Buddha head with 4 faces.

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4 faces?.

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Going to change my laminated flooring to a different colour from light oak, Any suggestions.

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Refurb was £589, but it would have been the 2015 model with 128GB, like the original.

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Yup. Sad, Angry, Laughing and one I shall describe as Bored. Bit like a Yes/No pillow only this head will be for my husband to use when I show him my latest shoes. :D


In my kitchen I have white/cream/grey stripe cabinet doors so have gone for a light grey ceramic floor which goes well with the dining area which has pine furniture.

I guess what I am trying to say is that you would be safer thinking about what colours would go best with whatever colours you can't change in the room(s). Laminates come in a massive range of colours and effects so take some colour swatches with you to a show room. Much better than asking us lot. :D :D :D

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A mini induction hob for work. Smelled like bacon & eggs all afternoon but hey ho.

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We had central heating put in ,so just bought laminate flooring, wallpaper, new complete Fire Surround, still have to pay the work men, So spent quite a bit of money this week,

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Four tyres for the Colt CZ1. Not too special: 175/65 R14.

Got them for a very Christian price of £239.96 Balanced, fitted and VAT included.

Local specialist supplier that I always use. They also provide support for local motorsport teams and there's often stacks of slicks and specials in the workshop.

One less thing for the MOT man to fret over on Monday.

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A magnetic soap holder to end the soggy soap saga!

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I can't remember the last time i used a bar of soap is that still a thing?

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Are you a hippy?

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Liquid soap for the win.

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A Philips Hue Motion Sensor.

Set it up in the kitchen, so when I walk in with hands full they lights turn on and turn off 2 minutes later when I've left.

I just need to tweak the day/night modes and set it so that in the summer the lights wont turn on during the day.

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Crikey Hom3r, with the amount of sensors and things you've been buying lately . . . you'll be looking at a Faraday cage next :D

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Well, now you mention it :D


My car is a keyless start, so I'm looking for a decent box to put the keys in?

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Do your keys not have motion sensors built in?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faraday-Blo..._=sb_s_sparkle

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Must be our own Mr Dynamo:

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I just use a layer of aluminium foil which covers the whole of the inside of a nice wooden box.I also did the same with my wallet. It's a lot cheaper and just as effective.

https://emfacademy.com/aluminum-foil-emf-radiation/

Of course other more expensive solutions are widely available. :)

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A new car for SWMBO (the final part of her 40th birthday present)

A nice round trip of 250 ish miles to Grimsby was how I spent my Sunday

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I have these 2 Pack Faraday Bag | Car Key... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PP1X4...p_mob_ap_share

One key goes inside a bag and lives in the safe the other bag hangs up in the kitchen

FIL uses them too for his car

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A 25kg sack of Epsom salts.

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Don't forget the toilet paper;)

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Sadly not.

I do have two pouches, but a box is simple for quick access.

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New leisure battery's for the boat.

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Bluetooth earbuds for daughter's unbirthday pressie (for each child's birthday we get the other an unbirthday gift, usually just something small - started so they would have something to unwrap more than any particular gift). Not the best probably but not going to spend what Apple want or any where near that. If she likes the design and wants better quality, her birthday is later in the year.

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A new kitchen which will mean about 10 days of microwave food or takeaways. Bit early in the year to be firing up the bbq but you never know ;)

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A dinky little (14 cm) non-stick frying pan in Lidl this morning. Been looking for a small pan at a reasonable price (£3.99) for ages. :)

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The trust put in a new kitchen about 2 years ago in our place and 10 days was about the time we were without the kitchen.

My OH alternated between takeaways and going to the supermarket for those 10 days.

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Not bought yet, but looking increasingly likely I may have to purchase a couple of fence posts and at least one fence panel :shocked:

May even just buy some decent wood and try a DIY panel, has to be better than most cheap crap . .

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A summer holiday in Great Yarmouth.


My Mum, Dad, me, nephew and hopefully my niece.

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Many wonderful past memories of Great Yarmouth in the summer.:Sun::Sun:

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Do you ever go anywhere else? :)

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Its a bit run down now but it is the best we have on that side of the country and it is where i go for a day trip.

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We live in deepest Devon but we went up there many a time when family relatives lived up there.

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Market chips cooked in Beef Dripping (last year I forgot to tell my niece, who is vegetarian)



My dad was born there, it's my second home

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Very nice :drool::drool: but sadly l cannot have that anymore.:(

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I'll have them once or twice this year.

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Tickets to Kennedy Space Centre - our flight doesn't leave until 22:15 that day, so this should pass the time nicely (and something off my bucket list).

We're staying in Titusville the night before, so only about 10 miles from there, then about an hour's drive to the Airport.

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Been there many years ago, Very interesting

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Bought Large coffee table and also Nest of tables from Oakland. Fantastic prices and they look lovely, They arrived today .

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I went twice in '91 spent all day there.

Second time ont only was there a Shuttle on the pad but it had the cover on adjusting the cargo bay.

But a second one landed at the Cape, everyone was outside trying to see it.

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Case PCS 6003B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 3 2300X Quad Core CPU (3.5GHz-4GHz/10MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard ASUS® PRIME A320M-K: Micro-ATX, AM4, USB 3.0, 6GB/s
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 710 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Storage Drive 512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling PCS FrostFlow 100 V2 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Windows Recovery Media Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Supplied on USB Drive
Browser Firefox™
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Price £570.00 PCSpecialist

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A pair of curtains to match the wallpaper, but it was not a good match, had to take them back

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Got any spare wallpaper you can take to the store with you?

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I took a bit of paper today and the pair of curtains I bought looked a nice match a nice natural colour, but when I put them up they were so dark looking ,

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The lighting under which you view the comparision will affect how they look.

Pigments react differently to the light they are viewed under so try to use the same type of light that you have in the room where you want them. IE. If it's warm LED or daylight then try the match under the same.

I remember this effect when I replaced the wings on a red car and sprayed them from an aerosol can. Under daylight they were an ideal match, under sodium street lights (yellow, almost monochromatic) they were obviously different.

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Haven't been there since I arrived to visit the worlds worst wax works, louis Tussards and it had shut down and been turned into flats :mad:

Sounds like a great trip, hope it lives up to expectations :tu:

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A Malmo ceiling light from John Lewis for the kitchen

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Finally I got nice Satan curtains to match the wallpaper, so pleased with them and they were reduced in price,

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They must have been the devil to put up...

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Ha ha,

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Elementary The Complete Series, and SAS: Rogue Warriors on DVD.

My Blu-Ray & DVD collection is now 1,011 titles which is made up of 2,129 discs (The box set above is 1 title).


That works out to 299,536 minutes, or 208 days 16 minutes.

So if I started to watch a midnight on New Years Day I'd finish on July 27th (56.82% of the year complete)

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£148 of RAC cover using £48.50 of Tesco Vouchers, so FREE.

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Vinyl click floor for the dining room and entrance hallway

Should keep me occupied for a couple of days

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An Arcam Alpha 10 amplifier - should keep me occupied for a lifetime (or until upgradeitis sets in again) ;)

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HyperX mouse

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Disney plus and Amazon Prime Video for a year. Thought I'd shell out whilst I still have money to help keep the kids entertained whilst housebound.

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First phone for our daughter, a few weeks before her birthday but now the school is closed and she is off to high school in the autumn we don’t want her to start losing contact with friends. :(

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A Nissan Leaf E+ Tekna, well not actually bought, traded in my 40kWH and balance on a PCP

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Leucillin anti bacteria/virus/fungus or our poorly cats suffering from fight wounds.

If I catch the villain he will be sorry....

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Some hand weights (3kg) and a weight bag (10kg). Most choices are unavailable or now getting more expensive.
2 sets of Gordon Giltrap signature guitar strings from New Tone Strings. Remarkably these are about £1 more than I used to pay over 20 years ago. If you play guitar try them out - really nice strings.

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Leucillin spray for our battle-scarred cats. A local feral tomcat will get a boot up its butt if I catch it in our garden again. :mad:

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Two 15mm ball isolating valves and some spare 15mm olives in B & Q.

My sister had the plumber in a while ago to fit a new main stop cock in the downstairs toilet and when he saw the wash basin didn't have a trap he disconnected the whole lot and cut and capped off the pipes to the taps. :rolleyes: The basin drain goes straight through the wall into the yard gully so not having a trap isn't really a problem.

I'm going over on Thursday for lunch and I'll fit a proper trap and reconnect the tap supplies with the isolators to make changing a washer easier.

I thought I ought to get the parts sooner rather than later in case the whole country gets locked down harder.

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A 16GB memory upgrade for my Mac Mini, as I now have to pre-record and edit material for church and it was really struggling with iMovie yesterday!

Back when I first bought this computer (secondhand) I went for the late 2012 model because it was just about the last Mac Mini Apple made with expandable memory slots. Since then they have soldered memory to the motherboard.

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Same with the iPad Pros - they have to break the screen to get into the gubbins; non-maintainable.

My son's girlfriend MacBook Air battery started to bulge (it was a 2013 model, and apparently this is quite common on models over 5 years old) - it was a morsel of micturition to remove the battery and replace with a looky-likey battery; probably wouldn't be able to do that with more recent models.

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FastFret - to clean guitar strings.

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Funny how quite a few people - who now have time on their hands - are picking up guitars they haven't played for ages, giving them a clean, maybe a re-string and quick set up, then finding that a little more practice is required again because of stiff finger joints and forgotten chord patterns :D

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Chord patterns I remember - fingers ache and to need to rebuild callouses. I have sheets of warm-up exercises, scales and the like (spiders anyone). Space is more a problem, family spreads out over house all day.

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Just got a refund for these, as well as for the AirBnB's we had to leave early/not visit - so that's useful.

Just got to try and claim back the extra costs of flying back early from the Insurance company - should be "interesting"...

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Hand cream,my hands are red and sore with all this fanatical washing.

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Yep never thought I'd see the day I was using hand cream daily.

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Tell me about it papa as its not so much them being red or raw but more stiffness and pain in my hands at times.

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my hands get dried out but a quick application of baby oil sets them right.

I know we don't have a baby but the oil has many uses. :D

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A pack of 4 toilet rolls. :hyper::hyper::hyper: We were getting dangerously low. Last thing we wanted to do was the single sheet with the hole in the middle. :erm:

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Only 1 pack, that is still dangerously low, I try and buy atleast a 9-24 pack.

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I put my Amazon accout on lockdown ATM

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Wise move :Yes:

I've noticed an increase in online spending from wife & daughter in the last week alone, gawd knows what weird and wonderful things they'll spot in the next month or so . . just 'because they can' ;)

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A Kindle book.

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Two large sirloin steaks and 500g of lean mince - I was walking the dog past our local butchers, and they are closing down today (they can't get any supplies from the local farms, as the Supermarkets have taken it all).

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Probably go out of business if this carries on.
Any hoo you should read this little gem

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/n...w-over-3997300

Shopper threatened with weapon in 'row over last slice of meat' in Grimsby store

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I'm in a quandary about whether to order non-essential stuff for home delivery.

Will my purchase help support a seller and a delivery driver (plus all in the chain)?

Or will my purchase expose the delivery driver (plus all in the chain) to greater risk of infection?

I'm seeing a lot more deliveries happening in our street recently.

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All delivery drivers are instructed to either ring the bell or knock on the door then put the parcel down and move 2 metres away Taf.

Quite a lot of people have to self isolate and that in itself will mean far more shopping is sourced online plus many parents are at home with their children and given that they cannot put their grandparents at risk by them looking after the children more parents are having to shop online.

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I paused my SkySports and BT Sport subscription, and decided to buy an Amazon Fire 4K stick with the money saved. I placed an order for the firestick on the 27th at £49.99, it was delivered yesterday. Today on the Amazon site it's been reduced to £29.99, so I contacted them and asked them if they could offer me anything as a gesture of goodwill. Straight away they applied a refund of £19.99 to my debit card. I wish other companies were as obliging and easy to deal with.

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If you like sy-fi The Expanse is a must.

The Star Trek: Picard

Also The Man in the High Castle

Mr Robot.

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I’m glad to hear they did that for you. I’ve always found their CS excellent (and I’ve had more than a few free Prime membership extensions in compensation for really rather minor issues).

However if you buy as much from them as our family does, you begin to spot the regular oscillations in price of their popular tech items, especially the Echo/Alexa enabled stuff. I’d never buy anything from that range at full price because it always goes on sale 2-3 times a year, often with up to 50% off.

I’m guessing your sports savings are enough to fund Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ for at least a couple of months. I’m happy to recommend all three of them. Apple TV, however (which I seem to have as a free bolt-on to my Apple Music student subscription) has thoroughly failed to excite, with the single exception of the alt-history Apollo moon landings drama, For All Mankind, which sadly stopped after about 10 episodes.

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Used to use CamelCamelCamel to watch prices but now disabled (in Europe) to help load but on some items I was looking at clear that there were huge price rises in last day or so and many of those items (exercise) are out of stock or hugely more expensive.