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Playing Card shuffling machine for £6, it does the job perfectly for the 2 deck game I play with family, I don't expect it to last too long but can't go wrong for that price.

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A sauna in the garden. Actually bought it a few weeks ago but installed this morning, heating up now and as soon as Mrs G finishes work at 4.30 we'll be going in!!

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Another bean to cup coffee machine, the existing one is going to swmbos office

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a new car! YAY!

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Congrats. What sort?

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Audi S5. Collected yesterday.

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Nice! Enjoy.

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Amazon firestick.

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Thank you

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Bought some books for my GDip Theology course. These would cost £180 more on Amazon than the £260 odd I paid. Expensive but 10 volumes so £26 each not too bad. Soft copy £230 so I get nice dead tree edition for only £30 more.

Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary Set : Old Testament
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary Set : New Testament

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iPhone 13 & Apple Watch Series 3
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G & Galaxy Watch4

well actually I haven't bought them, and I'm unlikely to do so no matter how many times VM email me their fantastic offers ;)

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A new Wok and a new frying pan in the sale.

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60m of rotary line replacement. When I took the drier out of the garage all the line was wrecked. It wasn't when I put it away. I think a cat must have got in there and got tangled up.

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New Kettle, the old one just suddenly stopped working.

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NEW PC!! Finally
i7 10th gen
RTX 2070
1 TB SSD Samsung Evo

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Did you forget to light the gas:)

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Mattress topper.

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10Gbe switch and an ax WiFi 6 router

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and a new avatar pic ;)

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1.7kg beef pot roast joint for £11.97 in Lidl today. Doesn't say what the cut is but brisket is a good bet.

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4kg of chicken breast for £9. From Sainsburys!

All sliced and vacuum-bagged ready for the freezer.

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Lidl still had some of the beef pot roast joints this morning so I got another (1.9kg £13.52) to go in the freezer.

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We bought a Simba mattress and bedding the other day. This morning my wife asked if we had a second duvet cover. When I said no sha asked how much they were and it took me a while to persuade her it was worth spending £100 on a second one.
I went to buy it off Amazon and, in small writing as I ordered it, it said click here for 40% off applied at checkout.
No sign of 40% off when I checked out but when I got the email it confirmed I’d only been charged £60!
Result.

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A new TV, thought we were going to get the 55" version but Mrs G tells me size does matter so we came out with the 65" model. All being well it'll be here around the end of the week.

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I have just bought my annual car insurance

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Did the premium go down? Mine did by about £50. Similarly the buildings insurance this year went down by £30.

I think this is the result of the regulator requiring that existing customers get the same deal as new ones.

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Will that happen with tv/bb suppliers ?

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Another Sonos Speaker. Love these little speakers.


No longer have space for a full Hifi setup but these Sonos speakers are quite good.

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The old firm raised the cost by over 30% the new firm was £70 cheaper

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That's a very good question . . . my bill would be halved if it happened

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Samsung Galaxy A12 64Gb mobile phone (un-locked) to replace my faithful old Tocco lite whose display is starting to fail.

My PAYG provider can upgrade to a sim only contract for around £6 a month: All you can eat texts and calls plus 10Gb of data. I don't need masses of data as I use the broadband for that.

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New sandals from Pavers Sale

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Well spotted. Lanzarote before lockdown.

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A faux leather car cushion £2 in charity shop.:)

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A Rolls Royce RB211 Jet Engine Fan Blade from one of the last British Airways 747's.


Why you may ask? Becuase I'm a mad aviation fan and really love planes, especially the 747!

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Were you the person building a huge model airliner years ago? If so what happened to that?

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Wow! You got your moneys worth out of that Toco Lite!
Mine barely lasted a year before the touchscreen started to fail.
I bet that Samsung Galaxy blows it away now.

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Wow, Yes it was me, going back several years now! Well remebered!


It took quite some time to get it to fly propery but it did fly.

Eventually I had a hard landing and it broke off the engines and since then its been in the loft. We ended up having kids and its now a project for another day.
But definately will have to get back to it some day.
I'l have to dig out a video.

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Yes, I really got my moneys worth, bought over 12 years ago though most of the time it's in standby.

The A12's display is stunning. At the moment I'm using it through the WiFi as I need to get a nano SIM with my provider as the Tocco Lite uses a standard size SIM.

I downloaded the user manual, only 107 pages long.

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Valentine and wedding anniversary gifts. Some books for essays for my GDip.

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GMC Yukon denali ,just in to to have drive converted.:D

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Tickets to Leeds Whisky Fest in April…

https://eatdrinkyorkshire.co.uk/pack...isky-fest/amp/

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You'll hate it Hugh, honestly.

I'm free all that week, and to save you being bored out of your skull I'm willing to take your place. I don't normally do this sort of thing, but the thought of you struggling to enjoy yourself at this event has convinced me that it's my duty to do so.


:D

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I agree with Carth and admire his philanthropic attitude, and being a good samaritan myself I could also relieve you of this great burden and won't have so far to travel which would be great for global warming. :angel:

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Elden Ring on PS5.

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Where did you get that?


I worked for a company that owned BAe-146s, and our building had a guy that overhauled the engines, he was going to give me some fan blades the next time an engine came in after a bird strike, but we all got made redundant and it never happened.

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My car is not E10 compatible, I've just paid 150.9p a litre for E5 super unleaded in a supermarket petrol station. E10 unleaded was 143.9p a litre.

£58.85. :shocked:

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Some walking shoes from Mountain Warehouse. Shoes are one of those things I can't buy online (sandals maybe). The first pair (£25) fitted OK but cast my weight inwards when walking, the second (£50) a bit tight but felt better walking, the last (£75) fitted the best but soles are quite thick (do get 3 year warranty). I really just wanted some waterproof shoes for general wearing, my current pair are only 10 years old and coming apart in places. Trouble is the choice here without driving is Clarks or Mountain Warehouse, other retailers have closed or are very specialist with very specialist prices.


At worst I have a pair of shoes for walking and can find a general pair when out with car. If I can drive in these the problem is solved.


Shoes are a pain to buy as trying on, new pairs never feel as comfy as the pair you have on.

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Pair of brand new NEXT lades lace-up suede boots (tag still on) £3 from charity shop.:):):)

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Bargain

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A pint of bitter! £2.60.

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:p::p::p::p:
I put BP Ultimate Diesel in at £1.64 a litre, so £80 later I'm off get a bank loan, for my next fill up.

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Where have you been? The year 2000?

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Three Vineyard Vines long-sleeved T-shirts.

(actually bought them last month, but as they are based in Connecticut, the postage would have been horrendous, so got them delivered to my Bro-in-law's house in CT, and he's just delivered them, as he's staying with us for a week).

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If you had let us know we would have all got our stuff delivered to him for him to bring across!

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Not bought... yet... but made an offer on a property on Skye. Looking to relocate rather than use as holiday let.

Amazon deliveries could be potentially a bit of a bugger mind

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Good luck, can you get Virgin on Skye?

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Don't think so, think Vodafone @ 67mbps is the quickest for the property :D

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Not sure I’d like it there, but if it’s what you want I hope it turns out to be everything you expect.
Enjoy!

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How far will you be from the Whisky Distilleries?

(asking for a "friend"…)

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:D:D:D:D:D It's v near Ulg, is that close?

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It’s a desolate wasteland inhabited by semi-civilised violent incoherent troglodytes - anyway, that’s enough about Teeside… ;)

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Double ss in Teesside

oik :D

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Sorry - when I used to visit there (previous Mrs Hugh was a "Stainsby Girl") it was Cleveland…

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New mechanical pencil.

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What I remember about Skye, a few years ago, was the sheep with serious attitude: Rams dukeing it out in the middle of the road oblivious to the cars.

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They’d just visited the distilleries.

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Shark vacuum, god l know how to live the high life

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A 512 GB USB Flash Stick, so I can put more music and audiobooks, as the 128 GB is full.


Well, I guess it because I favour the better FLAC format.

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A couple of packs of FFP2 face masks, for our trip to the Algarve at the end of the month - face masks are compulsory in public enclosed spaces & public transport (including airports and transfer buses), and in cafes and restaurants until you are seated.

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Some of our noise monitoring kit does high quality audio at 24-bit/192kHz and eats memory cards. It's been a while since I've used one but 4gig an hour seems to spring to mind.

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SEAGATE Firecuda 530 M.2 NVMe Internal SSD with Heatsink - 1 TB for my Playstation 5.

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Solar car battery charger , battery replacement costs arm and leg and don't do enough mileage to keep it in good condition

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New Fridge Freezer. Haier double door, it's so big.

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Alan Wake Remastered and a stainless steel frying pan. The two are not related.

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A set of decent whetstones. (For a set of Globals).

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An iPhone 13 max pro to replace the 11 max pro that Mrs G has managed to bend :shocked:

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Light bulbs for my two lamps, Wonder how long they will last,

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Cotton Traders ladies sandals normally £28 for £3 from charity shop, almost brand new. :)

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An another 2 Philips Hue Motion Sensor.


I have 3 blubs set to come on at sunset, due to the electricity prices rising I can set the motion to keep the lights on for 5 minutes etc, after which they will turn off.

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2 x 4TB mechanical hard drives. Just cannot force myself to delete anymore stuff haha

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I never download anything now since I embrassed streaming, even my Office 365 is legit, and all gaming is done on the PS5.

For the cost of your storage you could heat the house for 30mins! Hehe

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It all keeps me warm anyway hahaha

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A protective sleeve for my 2nd Gen ipencil.

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A Moto Guzzi EV California 1100cc - 2005 reg with 8500 on the clock.

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Nice.

I wish Mrs G would let me have one or any bike come to that, but I suppose she's right to say in my mid 50's I've got the disposable income to buy something that's likely to get myself killed on my way to somewhere like Squires in North Yorkshire. An old man can still dream.

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Oral-B Genius X 2x Electric Toothbrushes as the batteries in our previous units weren't charging very well and never lasted very well anyway. These claim 14 days on a full charge.

The downside is they don't work with the Smart timer, and I can't reprogramme the units as I could previously. You need to work with your phone to get all features, and who usually takes their phone into the bathroom when showering/shaving/brushing teeth?

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What is the fascination with companies now making everything under the sun operational from a bloody smart phone?

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A replacement toner cartridge for my laser printer

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Do it, I've only rode there once and that was during lockdown. Some of the rides they go out on are supposed to be fantastic.

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get with the hip kids, daddio - don’t be such a square… ;)

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my youngest is obsessed with it, his house has smart everything.

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Having recently bought the Expanse novellas which give backstories and fill in gaps the TV series didn't show, I bought the Role-playing game that has an exclusive story included.

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Your hobby is expensive buying everything on disc for movies and Xbox games.

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A wool Barbour jumper (in perfect condition) from ebay for a tenner :D

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Vytronix High performance pressure washer

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7x5 Tanalised Pent Shed, 3 Terracotta plant pots, 50 litres peat-free compost, and various bits and bobs for re-potting Orchids.

Rock ‘n Roll!!!

Also, a pair of Merrell Moab 2 Mid GORE-TEX walking boots, and a pair of Merrell West Rim Sport GORE-TEX Hiking Shoes - I find Merrell boots/shoes are the most comfortable fit.

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CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD Intelligent LCD UPS System, 1500VA/900W.

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Well, that was fun.

Lots of free tastings, master classes, and chats with people from the distilleries - had a lot of tastings from Australian/Irish/Japanese/Swedish/Norfolk/Filey Bay/Scottish/etc. whisk(e)ys distilleries.

May have to have a nap now… :)

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Not jealous in the slightest, nosireee, not one bit 'sigh' :(

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New towels for the Ukranian family arriving next Monday, they're staying at our daughters house so we've been busy over the last few weeks building furniture, sorting out the bathroom (they use their on-suite so it's been neglected). Still got a massive list to do.