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    Immigrants built Britain

    I often get messages of thanks from customers, the MD of a local firm emailed me last week thanking me for sorting a problem on their crucial CNC machine, another business owner called me a magician after resolving problem on a framing press.
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    What's the monarchy for?

    I doubt these people would more miserable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_republicans
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    What's the monarchy for?

    Royal fact: I once sat on the Queens bed
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    Trump's Thanksgiving Tweet

    I visited the USSR in 1985, any thoughts?
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    Trump's Thanksgiving Tweet

    Interesting article about a group of young people building a memorial to holocaust victims, your point being?
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Steve Cropper https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gqd05geno
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Robin Smith https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c33mzp4mxe8o
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Billy Bonds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy47lde523zo
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Sir Tom Stoppard https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo
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    What have you bought today?

    I had a medical (drugs test really) at a large defence contractor a few years ago, it was held in a portakabin outside the main gates, there were trucks coming and going with reversing alarms beeping constantly, I think the nurse gave up in the end and gave me a pass
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Jack Shepherd https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/25/wycliffe-star-jack-shepherd-dies-aged-85-short-illness-24809316/
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Joan Branson https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15325613/Richard-Bransons-wife-Joan-dies.html
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    Vitesseplus lighting control

    Asked to have a look at one of these systems, lights staying on too long, according to the website a handheld programmer is required, has any one ever used one, are they hard to work...
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    What are you watching on TV right now?

    Call My Bluff BBC4, Robert Robinson sporting the best comb over ever, Judy Geeson & Edward Woodward puffing on cigarettes, Noel Edmunds and the lovely Joan Bakewell
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    Economy 7 meter

    That is a time switch which determines the off peak period by switching your meter over to off peak and also any heaters connected through it so you should be OK . Back in the old days meter readers used to re set them
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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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