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    Moving to Russia?

    Spending a few hours on a day trip will not give you the true nature of a city, you also said "anything in the UK", that could mean towns , villages, hamlets etc, you must be 200 years old
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    Moving to Russia?

    You must have lived in all the UK cities & towns from North to South and East to West
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    Should We Be Worried?

    Found this article about the new British embassy in Harare, Mace are a Uk based construction business operating in 70 countries, but using lots of local labour. When I worked there in the 90s many Chinese companies were building government projects but with local inspectors monitoring...
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    20A Radial for Fridge and Dryer

    20 MPH signs are popping up in many towns in England
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    Sayings which stick with you, through your life

    Better to be looking at it than looking for it
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Manfred Goldberg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v8jjny8nmo
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Pauline Collins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e0n957y9o
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    Is JD Vance having an affair with Erica Kirk?

    Pakistan
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    Firework season - is there one?

    When I was growing up in the 60s, firework season started on or around Halloween, bangers being thrown on the streets etc. TBH it seems less prevalent now withe organised displays being the norm
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    Tallow

    Standard AFIK, probably I extended with off cuts
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    Tallow

    The smell of tallow reminds me of being 16/17yo apprentice and being given the task to make 10 nipples from two inch conduit with stocks and dies, had muscles like Popeye when I finished
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    Smart Heat economy 7 controller

    AFAIK the relay at the heater switch was controlled by a RF signal injected into the T&E supplying the heater
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    Do you drive a manual or auto?

    I recall my first drive in an auto, I had to take some brackets to the galvanisers in a pick up (ute), driving down the road I went to change gear, instead of the clutch I pressed the wide brake pedal and screeched to a halt, good job it was a quiet street, the opposite occurred after picking up...
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    Do you drive a manual or auto?

    Auto car & camper, manual van, drove autos in Australia in the 80s
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    Cable rod kits

    During the 80s I worked for the local leccy board, mini trunking was quite expensive then and our boss used to go bananas if we used the lid for fishing, the smallest size oval conduit is ok but can kink easily
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    Fluorescent light ballast help

    I used to spend lots of time swapping ballasts in a school prior to LEDs, my local Edmundsons used to supply the new ones
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Jay Wynne https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq2jrwzv9wo
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    Peter Mandleson

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    Reform will stop the small boats within two weeks ...

    Caption form the pic I posted Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in Mea Shearim, a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 2012
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    Who is Banksy ?

    Must have been a judge from outside the UK
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