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    Spouses annoying habits

    Well I can’t think of anything to criticize about my wife except it means I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Trying again now she does insist on getting up first to make me a cuppa, I’m such a light sleeper and wake up about an hour before she does, so I lie there thinking of all the...
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    First Car

    Thanks for that info Securespark. - You're right, I phoned my elder brother who said he thinks it was a 1955 motor, and didn't realise OC was Birmingham although bought at Lisles Garage in that area. I also got it wrong on the year we were taken to Clent Hills, it was 1945 when the ingnition...
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    First Car

    I'll join in with the oldies, my first fantastic :roll: ride in a car was in my wife (to be) Dad's Austin 7 to the Clent Hills in 1941, distance about 7 miles. We also lived on a hill and I can still remember that little engine chugging away carrying 2 adults and 3 children in total...
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    Subsidence

    Hi, about subsidence again. Some of the concrete floors in our old bungalow have sunk, perhaps 1/64th of an inch per year over the past 30 years, or about 1/2 an inch say. Does building regs allow me to skim over with a self-levelling compound up to the bottom of the skrting boards again, or to...
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