What have you just bought?
27-02-2019, 11:40
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nashville
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Re: What have you just bought?
Well done Snoopz great idea, You must have had a lot of points
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27-02-2019, 11:53
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Re: What have you just bought?
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Originally Posted by nashville
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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02-03-2019, 10:02
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Mum 15/08/46 - 30/09/20
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Re: What have you just bought?
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
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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04-03-2019, 10:52
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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04-03-2019, 10:59
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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04-03-2019, 11:05
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
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04-03-2019, 21:30
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Re: What have you just bought?
My 1,000 Blu-Ray/DVD title.
Bohemian Rhapsody Steelbook Amazon Edition
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05-03-2019, 15:12
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Re: What have you just bought?
23 fresh large chicken breast fillets for £23.
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05-03-2019, 16:03
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Re: What have you just bought?
A ceramic frying pan, my none stick pan doesn't work any more.
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10-03-2019, 16:06
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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11-03-2019, 08:00
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Re: What have you just bought?
Electric toothbrush
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11-03-2019, 08:44
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Re: What have you just bought?
Curry powder mild of course.
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11-03-2019, 11:18
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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11-03-2019, 11:42
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Re: What have you just bought?
Another vintage Swatch watch.
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11-03-2019, 12:07
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: What have you just bought?
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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