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    Do you feel sorry for ripped-off customer?

    No I don't feel sorry for people that are overcharged, it does really annoy me though. In todays day and age there are plenty of resources available to fathom what a trade should be charging for a job, and there is the option to get as many quotes as you want to clarify what the average costs...
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    Fix for Swollen Kitchen Worktop

    The return worktop that has blown looks like it was butted directly to the sink run worktop, "without removing the front edge strip" If you go for Square edge worktops again, find a kitchen fitter that can either do a 3mm/5mm or 10mm worktop joint. Leaving the edging on is a complete bodge...
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    Coping with pain

    Movement is key in chronic pain, but so is learning when to stop. It is also recognising that on the days when you aren't in as much pain are also not the days to do more than you normally would. I had chronic pain for five years, this year it stopped when a tumour was discovered through...
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    Coping with pain

    Our Daughter has Fibromyalgia which causes a whole range of debilitating issues, chronic pain being one of them. She refuses to take prescription medication due to its side effects and the complications it will add to her occupation, instead she has chosen Cannabis as a pain reliever in the form...
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    Twisted scaffold boards

    I built this out of brand new uncupped straight scaffold boards 3 years ago. One winter one summer and it wouldn't look out of place in a Crooked House.
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    Wood or UPVC

    I am a Carpenter and love all things wood, faced with your dilemma I would always choose uPVC.
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    Lintep

    Please see attached pictures, after 3 years of ignoring it I tackled the garage. Rather than try and fudge a bad job, I decided to build a new roof over the existing. The garage was built with parapet walls front and back, the front parapet wall was built directly on to the timber head of the...
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    Clamp down at last - ebikes

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c33zz00kpzxo This happened April last year at Ringlands a notoriously rough estate in South Wales. The ebikers/drug dealers were a nuisance, so the police used drones to follow them home where they were promptly arrested, bikes confiscated along with drugs.
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    What have you had for dinner

    That's how the Italians eat though, or atleast in restaurants and hotels consisting of.. Apertivo - pre dinner drinks & snacks Antipasto - meats cheeses etc Primo ,first course - pasta, risotto, soup etc Secondo - main course - meat, fish veggy opt. Contorno - Side Dish Vegetable Insalata...
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    Post the best photo you took today

    That's the garage flooded again on a plus the water butt's are over flowing, every cloud and all that, but look at the size of this storm cloud.
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    Post the best photo you took today

    Looks like your selling your Oasis Tickets....
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    What have you had for dinner

    Linguine not Carbonara the Chef has pulled me up short. Probably tastes nice them, I'll never eat either in adulthood having had no choice in childhood.
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    What have you bought today?

    Gold ball retriever- I don't play the game - preferring to ransack courses of lost balls and sell them, albeit this is new hobby, but it gets me out in the fresh air for a few hours.
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    What have you had for dinner

    Ah Chicken supreme takes me back to my childhood in the 80's, that and mushroom stroganoff both held on a plate by a thick dense ring of white rice.....not Yum.....
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    What have you had for dinner

    Smoked Salmon Carbonara - Yum
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    Post the best photo you took today

    Lake Garda?
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    Fabricated or solid gate posts

    It won't work, don't do it, buy 150mm Treated Post.
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    Unpaid Tax

    Unless you have a multimillion pound business and can afford the best accountants and the best solicitors to fabricate the books and keep the HMRC away, all whilst still taking high dividends. According to the "Company Check" they have 1bn in assets and 1bn in liabilities with a net personal...
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