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Over the past week or two I've been (sort of) playing my guitars (6 string & bass) using headphones through the output socket of my old Zoom effects unit . .

It just isn't good enough, so today I decided a new amp was the only decent thing to do ;)

Home playing only, and capable of being used with both guitars, I've splashed out on a Peavey Vypyr VIP 2 . . . . being stuck indoors is getting expensive :D

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Take Care everyone. Just bought some croceries from Tesco today.

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Finally found some paracetamol..

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I wish I had and Ketchup! My Tesco Extra is always sold out.

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Have you looked in the bulk buy section assuming your Tesco Extra has one. Ours is selling multi packs of 3. Loads in stock but no individual bottles on the shelves.

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Thanks i will give it ago next week in the morning as i am off work.

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Plenty of fresh tomatoes in the stores. Try making your own?

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/homemade-ketchup

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Pack of 4 Oranges from Aldi, they're bloody lovely!

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New vacuum as old one started to produce a strong electrical smell. It was fairly old and been duck taped in places. Wife wanted a corded upright even though cylinders are more highly rated so gone for a slightly older Shark model that's rated well by Which?

Wanted to get a pasta maker but the one book marked on Amazon is now out of stock and 3rd party sellers want £30 more than Amazon. Save money.

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All you need to make pasta is a bowl and a rolling pin.

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Sent my brother in law some Lego technic for his birthday. (via amazon)

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Shark's are excellent, we have corded & cordless stick models.

Make sure to buy spare filters if you need them.

https://www.sharkclean.co.uk/

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I’ve been trying to buy a webcam all week but it’s proving surprisingly difficult to find any of the reasonably priced, slightly sub-£80 ones in stock anywhere.

At the moment I’m using the Epocam HD app on my iPhone to run that as a webcam for my Mac Mini, and it works reasonably well as long as you don’t want to switch, for example, between cam and window broadcast in Facebook live. The app loses connection with the app it’s meant to be feeding and won’t reconnect without being quit and restarted on the phone.

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Argos have this in "limited stock" assuming you can still get home delivery

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8365534

Looks a bit el cheapo though

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Also not Mac compatible according to the Q&A at the foot of the page.

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A bowl is not really necessary. But you will need flour, plus perhaps eggs, salt and oil (depending on the type). ;)

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@ Chris
wild stab in the dark . . don't suppose you have a fairly expensive dashcam that does streaming?

May work as a temporary webcam . . . you won't be using it much in the motor for a while ;)

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Finally found where to buy a face mask and hand sanitiser online!

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An A5 notebook and contacts pages with dividers, and a stamp the obiterates your address on packaging.

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Unlimited data, texts and calls SIM £20. So long VM.

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I have a fairly cheap dashcam... and it’s broken :D

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You can still buy directly from Logitech but there is an up to 14 day order processing delay.

Logitech C920s Pro. £85

Scrap that it shows as out of stock when adding to basket.

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Chris, PM'ed you - I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 you can have.

It's my spare spare...

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Quickcam Pro 9000 is a great webcam.

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It's what I use with my PC (I have a Logitech 525 as a spare).

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PMd you back ... thanks so much, I think I’m probably about a fortnight away from killing my iPhone through constant use :disturbd:

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Going to cancel this claim now - I sent a letter (email) of complaint to Aer Lingus about how the additional costs for changing flights back had gone up from £161 per person to £266 per person whilst I was trying to book the flights, and they have just refunded £1067 - result!!!

Just goes to show that it never hurts to ask... :D

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CTEK CT5 charger not cheap but as both cars have stop start batteries should the worst happen it would be the thick end of £600 to replace them both

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Half shoulder of lamb, bone in pork shoulder for Easter weekend. Looking for some exercise equipment at not silly prices but not too much luck. Got a little 1kg and 3 kg hand weights, 10kg sack with later delivery - still waiting but I know a little about the supplier and their problems.

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A new vacuum cleaner - the last one started to emit strong electrical smell and was well over 10yrs old. Got an older model Shark using Which? reviews but wife isn't that happy. She says the balance is wrong but it does suck properly. It's a lot quieter than the Dyson. Now she's found that an old model Dyson would only be a little more expensive.

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Set of press-up bars.

Been a month since I last set foot in a gym and I'm climbing the walls with frustration....

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Climbing the walls though. Must be good exercise. :D

Mother-in-law has just bought cheap festival tents for our kids, seeing as we can't go away for our long Easter weekend to the seaside flat as we normally would this week. They arrived via courier from whatever online emporium she used, and yesterday I mowed the back lawn in preparation for the great garden sleep-out, probably tomorrow as the weather forecast is better.

Missus and I are going to run a book between us on who gives up and comes in at what time. :rofl:

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FINALLY managed to buy some Ketchup in my weekly Tesco shop, it has only taken me 3 weeks of looking!

As for Paracetamol still MIA.

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Dirty water pump with extraction hose & some pond detoxifier.

Going to empty out the old pond water clean the crud out and refill

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Luckily l managed to source two packets online last week but at a premium price compared to the usual price.

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Finally took delivery of my N95 Mask and 2 bottles of water free hand sanitiser, they messed up and sent 2 masks though.

If anyone is interested i can post the online link as they're still in stock.

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Please

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Yes please, do post the link. Missus is working at the local school/childcare operation this week and only has half a bottle of alcohol gel left.

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Managed to get 1/2 dozen eggs this morning in Lidl amongst other things. Just a few boxes there. We'd used the last ones up on Sunday breakfast. None in Sainsbury's the last two weeks.

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Not cheap but i think it is far better than a pack of 50 blue disposable surgical masks from China.

https://www.ukmeds.co.uk/hygiene-face-mask-ffp2-n95
https://www.ukmeds.co.uk/sursol-hand-sanitiser

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Thank you, ordered.

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An unlimited data add-on for my phone so I can create a separate hotspot for work at home. Our glacial rural ADSL just can’t cope with having 5 people on it all day.

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Try B&M if you have one near you

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I dunno, Leicestershire Police caught a man speeding on the M1, and the excuse he gave was bread was £1 a loaf cheaper in London..

I can't drive, but even if I could, not sure I'd drive 120 miles to save so little.

Besides, while I don't know Nottingham prices, I doubt London is cheaper.

The last thing I bought, besides cleaning products? An Oculus Quest VR headset. Not, strictly speaking, necessary, but we went in to lockdown nearly two weeks before the country did (my niece had a high temperature, but showed no other symptoms, and has since recovered so I think it was just a bug). I think the VR headset will help with the boredom. Sadly out of stock everywhere, but Scan appear to think they will be getting stock on the 28th. Not sure if they will, but I've ordered it.

This is also the reason I get angry when I see the video of people having fun in the parks when they are told they should. I've followed the rules, and been in lockdown for 5 weeks. They aren't following the rules, have been in lockdown for 3 weeks, and because of them, we are all likely to be in lockdown longer.

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Sorry but that shows a little naivety. We were always going to be placed in lockdown for more than three weeks regardless of if a portion of society decided not to follow the rules.

You can't just say to the population en masse that they will be locked down for 6,9 or 12 weeks there would be immediate civil unrest.

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I have just purchase a case for my mobile phone

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I believe the lockdown is 6 months with 3 weekly reviews. But that's for another thread.

My FastFret arrived yesterday well short of the 24 April expected date, still waiting for some exercise gear.

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A new kettle, as the old one conveniently decided to stop working yesterday. This then entailed a 'heated discussion' about why we shouldn't buy an Alexa enabled kettle.

Needless to say SWMBO won, no Alexa kettle for me :(

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A PlayStation VR kit.

Well it's actually my birthday pressure from the wife but I placed the order.

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I get pressure from the wife all year long, not just birthdays :p:


predictive text or fumble fingers? :D

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Was on my phone, should have been pressie. Lol. Autocorrect is a pain.

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Did you get the 2 move controllers with it too as you really need them on some games to get the best out of it?

Example Until Dawn: Rush of Blood

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Not yet, Game did have stock yesterday but gone now. They are just really hard to get hold of at a normal price.

Got the starter bundle for £199.85 Inc delivery from Simply Games. Not allowed to play it till my birthday next Friday though.

I've got a few games saved and some of the free stuff that can be played with just a controller. The Star Trek one looks a lot of fun.

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Argos have them in stock at the normal price.

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No delivery available to my postcode and can't go out to collect it. :mad:

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I've just pre-ordered Ring Fit Adventure from Amazon France. Seems the best way to get one. I'll cancel it if I can get one over here.

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SWMBO has just ordered a Cotton & Linen 3 tog duvet, Dyson Cool Me

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Autocorrect always gets my fords in a mucking wuddle. :D

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Ring Fit Adventure was available from Game (ewwww) so I changed my order from Amazon France to Game.

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A Note 9

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new built in oven,arrived this morning ,fitted it this afternoon.

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Apple Watch Series 4, Cellular and GPS.

Was on an incredible deal and I've had the Series 3 for over a year now so figured why not.

Loving it so far :)

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2 food storage containers.

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NOT Perlite for my gardening.

I normally pay around £15 for a 100 litre bag.

But gougers have been buying up that stock and offering it for sale at stupid prices.

£100 for 100 litres on one site. But £20 for 10 litres on another!

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DJI Tello (mini drone) to chase the wood pigeons out of the trees along my driveway and stop them from roosting, crapping all over the cars and my roof.

Saves me having to go out and clear them with the pressure washer every evening.

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Are you going to bother getting a license to fly it, I have a mini drone that haven't bothered using yet and not got the required license?

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Probably yes. We're not really near anyone but the curtain twitcher brigade will probably be able to see it when it's up at treetop level as some of the trees are approaching 80 ft tall now.

Being a PPL(A) holder it won't look to good being nobbled for flying an unlicensed drone ;)

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Pie dish and pastry brush.

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I've just bought a Vankyo home cinema projector. It cost just over £200 and the quality of the image is really impressive. I'm loving it.

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Extra strong Sensydine Toothpaste. Paracetamol and a large bottle of Gin. All bought for their pain killing properties ...honest. :D

Oh and I have mastered the art of tooth gap whistling so John can turn his hearing aids back on.

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Care to give a review? I’m looking for a small drone to fly around the garden.

I have a parrot disco which I love but it’s too big to be launching around the garden !!

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Only bought food this week. So nothing exciting

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I shall certainly do that when I've had a chance to do a couple of test flights :tu:

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A case for my mobile phone

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Excellent, look forward to reading it !

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Finally managed to get the set of hair clippers I wanted.

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Think we will all need hair clippers.

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Not much use to me Nash.:D

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SWMBO used the dog clipping set on me. She had had enough of me looking like a ‘homeless terrorist’ apparently.

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A Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Smart speaker with Alexa as one of our family asked us to order it on our Amazon Prime account for them.

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You will find it comes pre-registered to your Amazon account in that case. Be sure they set it up properly and it doesn’t retain the ability to purchase amazon goods on your account. ;)

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That's probably why they asked them to order it :erm: :)

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I think you had to select the option to have your account pre-registered on it. I got one recently and it was an option then.

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There is an option, but every time we’ve bought an Amazon device (1 fire stick, 4 kindle fires, one Echo and 3 Echo dots, most recently in January) that option has been preselected so you would have to remember to uncheck it to have it delivered non-registered.

Perhaps if you select the gift option at checkout that might not be the case though?

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A Klim USB microphone for or family Skype quiz nights

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Patio cleaner and pump sprayer
Nasal waxing kit :eeek:

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A Carbon steel Wok

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Mackmyra tasting set - 4x50ml miniature bottles of Swedish Single Malt Whisky and a glass.

https://mackmyra.co.uk/products/online-tasting-set

(actually, I bought two, as there was a half-price offer on...)

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Electric sandwich toaster.

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More than i probably should from amazon.

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A new random orbit sander to replace the one I've just worn out

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When it arrived, there was an extra 50ml miniature in one* of the boxes - result! :)

*the other box is still sealed, as it will be a gift for a relative who also likes single malts.

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God of war PS4
Three new metal cooker hood filters
More makeup for swmbo
Alpha industries cargo pants
Power supply (Thanks Pip!!!!!)
Another pair of zx750 hd
Lower chin vent for shark evoline

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You going for the "tacticool’ look? ;)

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Hoping to buy a new mattress. I've been looking at a Simba or Emma. Simba is looking better but more pricey.

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We looked at those and also rem-fit and Otty

Picked up a refurbed otty from the manufacturer on eBay for just under £200

Great mattress and would highly recommend if you’re looking for a mattress on the firmer side

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I've looked at Otty abit but not too much. I'll have a look now on eBay. :tu:

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Just bought my first ever Soundbar/Sub for £120 from Amazon Italy, seemed like a bargain as the UK price is £250, hopefully it won't be too big and will sound ok on voice.

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We have bought a few things before from Amazon America as they are so much cheaper over there then they are in Blighty.

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If it's electrical and from the USA make sure it's suitable for use on our mains ~230vac

Most electronics is universal (100 - 240vac) these days but other things may not be.

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Hopefully i wont get caught on import duty from Amazon as not sure how it works as i can't read Italian, i mean this Soundbar is so damn cheap!

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No it was not electrical heero but thanks for the advice anyway.:tu:

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Google Translate should turn it from Italian into English for you SnoopZ.

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If someone in the know can tell me the best way to connect it up for use with a PS4 Pro, Amazon Firestick and Virginbox that would be great as i am clueless if i can do it with just one cable from the Soundbar to the KS9000 TV, the model is HW-R450.

edit

I'm guessing probably a Digital Optical Cable is the way to go?