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I seem to have got my home address, on some sort of scammers list, or at least I keep getting mail, addressed to a corrupted version of my name. How do I trace back the source of the list?

Several weeks ago, I complained to RM about letters being delivered delayed, and in batches, along with junk mail. I also signed up to NOT receive junk mail. I received an apology from RM, and for a few weeks, the junk mail also stopped. This morning, another yet batch of mail, and a pile of...

I think that will exclude 99.9% of the immigrants, but such a test, would exclude 95% of the white British in the UK ;-)

I've been repairing a very compact 35w HPS wall mount fitting, which had a failed e-ballast. The original ballast, fit precisely, inside the case of the fitting, but replacements of the original ballast are very expensive/near unobtainium. This, is to replace a LPS fitting, high on my house...

They said (BBC) we, and animals, have been doing it around 21 million years - now, how could they possibly know that? They also don't know why we, and animals do it - but do it, they do.... Our last dog, used to make a feint of bitting your nose, then it would turn in to a kiss.

From school days, The Goons I think.. He's fallen in the water. Writing the time down, on a bit of paper, so you always know what time it is.

Oh what fun - Hastings Direct... It's coming up to renewal time, HD wrote to me, including my renewal proposal, and a letter saying they had tried to email me the renewal, but it had bounced - well it would do, I no longer have access to that old address. I then logged into my online account...

On Saturday morning, I got a feeling of having stepped on a drawing pin, with my right foot. Not quite as painful as that, but.. The pain was quite localised, just to the rear of the ball of my foot, no sign of damage to the skin, no mark, nothing, but I wasn't able to put any weight on the...

My uncle is over 100, he fought in D-day, and he thinks that Nigel Farage is the right man to sort Britain out. He says he reminds him of one of the commanders that he fought alongside with distinction. In the next few weeks he's going to auction off his medals and donate all of the money to...

My docs surgery, has stopped using Sytmonline, for many appointments, which was all fairly obvious to the user, and is now insisting patients use a thing called Patchs, for all messages, and to try to make appointments. It's near impossible, to get as far as actually making an appointment, it...

I've just been watching a TV program, about how the track down stolen vehicles fitted with trackers. They seem to be suggesting, that the tracker signal, includes the GPS location data, but they seem to struggle in that the GPS data lacks accuracy, once they get near, and they then have to...

Way back when, I had a company mobile, which strangely, simply refused to dial a certain w/salers number - not the cell, it was the same anywhere in the county. My own Iphone, seems to have a similar issue, with some numbers. I enter the number, press the green button to get it to dial, then...

In the news at the moment, is the ridiculous situation, of when someone moves out of council property, the property has to be totally cleared of everything - furniture, floor coverings, and carpet, irrespective of the condition of the items. The person then moving in, is faced with massive...

I've just received a warning from one of my banks, that a payment to 'Not Provided' of £0.01 has been blocked, followed by them approving the payment, then followed by a refund of the amount. Obviously a test payment, but what for? Who/what is 'Not Provided'?

Has anyone any recommendations for an electrical waterproofing grease, for plugs and sockets, which might be subjected to rain water spray please? My mobility scooter, has various plugs and sockets, and my idea was, to unplug grease, and reconnect, to avoid the connections suffering oxidation.

Recycled plastic, at twice the cost to you, of the none recycled item... https://www.wago.com/gb/electrical-interconnections/discover-installation-terminal-blocks-and-connectors/221-green-range

Am I the only one completely flummoxed by the sheer number of NHS apps? It began with Systmonline, the surgeries app, which seemed to work sort of OK. Then along came Patches, the NHS app, all it seems suggesting they 'talk' to each other, but rather they screw each other up, one seeming to...

I've just done a test, and calculation, of what it cost us today, to run a single load in our dish-washer. It's a full sized under worktop unit, and monitored via our smart meter, and an app. We are on Octopus Tracker, so the price per unit varies from day to day. A normal maximum cost is around...

This was never my area of expertise, and so.... I need a replacement thermostat, for our immersion heater. The immersion heater is vertically mounted in the cylinder, the cylinder is a normal upright type, 120L. Would that mean the immersion heater is a 36"? How long should the thermostat be...

.. But there does seem to be a little more sensible technical discussion here... I put a flag pole up and a Union Flag, some days ago. The flag is firmly attached to one side of the pole, since when, I realised in might end up wrapping itself around the pole, as the wind direction varies. I've...