WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Big Kev]

The mortgage balance, on Chez Kev, is now zero. That's quite exciting

[PanBiker]

Indeed Kev, we paid ours off when I was made redundant, that was 19 years ago now.

[Stanley]

Well done Kev! I remember when we finished paying for Hey Farm.... A bloke asked me why I looked so cheerful and when I told him why he said I was a lucky bugger. I'm afraid I gave him the rough edge of my tongue. I said luck had nothing to do with it! Where was he when I was doing over 80 hours a week.... Answer, in the pub!

[Cathy]

Good one Kev When’s Retirement?

[Big Kev]

Good one Kev When’s Retirement?

Got at least another two and a half years.

[Cathy]

Well don’t start your Countdown just yet

[Stanley]

See THIS report on 'Britain's Kindest Plumber'......
A firm run by a man dubbed "Britain's kindest plumber" breached multiple fundraising rules, a year-long investigation by a regulator has found. Depher Community Plumbing and Heating CIC, founded by James Anderson, was investigated by the Fundraising Regulator following multiple complaints. The firm posted on social media about fitting free boilers for elderly and vulnerable people in Burnley, making Mr Anderson a viral sensation at the height of the UK's cost-of-living crisis. The posts brought in at least £2m in donations, but a BBC News investigation last year revealed some of the stories shared online had in fact been faked. The Fundraising Regulator has now confirmed it investigated 13 possible breaches of its code. Gerald Oppenheim, chief executive of the regulator, told the BBC: "Our investigation into Depher CIC found the organisation had committed eight breaches of the code of fundraising practice; particularly those provisions concerning misleading information, evidencing the claims made by the organisation, and ensuring that restricted funds were used for the claimed purpose."

[Wendyf]

We are struggling to find a non LED bulb for an outdoor motion sensor light. Can anyone recommend somewhere that I might find one? It needs to be a 60w ES bulb.

[Stanley]

I have 60 watt bayonet tungsten bulbs if they will do Wendy....

[Stanley]

I've just realised that ES equals Edison Screw...... Sorry Love, that I don't have.

[PanBiker]

Is there a reason why it has to be non LED? just about all lamps are now LED. Just checked on CPC (Farnell)

CPC

[Wendyf]

Is there a reason why it has to be non LED? just about all lamps are now LED. Just checked on CPC (Farnell)

CPC

That's the problem Ian, everything is LED. Col has tried LED bulbs in the light but for some reason they fail within a few days. We are going to try again with an LED bulb, just incase the last ones were faulty.

[Tizer]

If you know the manufacturer's or retailer's name perhaps they could tell you if it should work with LED and if not what type of bulb to use and where to get it?

[Wendyf]

If you know the manufacturer's or retailer's name perhaps they could tell you if it should work with LED and if not what type of bulb to use and where to get it?

It's been up for years Tizer, I think the manufacturer's name will have disappeared into obscurity. What we really need is a new outside light, it's an ugly thing anyway! I have been up a ladder and put a new bulb in.

[Stanley]

"I have been up a ladder and put a new bulb in."
I can just imagine Col's reaction to that! I have an outside light like that Wendy but it takes a 500W tungsten halogen bulb and it has been up for ever!
What grabbed me was a message from Margaret showing her local weather forecast for Perth WA. 15C for today and 16C for the rest of the week. And I thought it was chilly here!

[Stanley]

Still wet cold and windy in Perth WA.
See THIS report from Australia....
4 hours ago
Like many Australians, Rach grew up "terrified of the sun" in a country that has the unenviable title of skin cancer capital of the world. Her childhood was characterised by the infamous "no hat, no play" rule that is commonplace in Australian schools, 90s advertisements that warned the sun would give you cancer, and sunscreen tubes that stood guard at every door in her home. It made the now 34-year-old the kind of person who religiously applies sunscreen multiple times a day and rarely leaves the house without a hat. So she was shocked when doctors found a skin cancer on her nose during a check last November, something they said was abnormal given her age and ray-dodging regime. Though technically classified as a "low grade" skin cancer – a basel cell carcinoma – it had to be surgically removed, leaving the Newcastle mum with a scar just below her eye. "I was just confused, and I was a little bit angry because I was like, 'Are you kidding me?'" Rach – who asked that her surname not be used – told the BBC. "I thought I'd done all the right stuff and it still happened to me." That rage grew when she learned the sunscreen she had been using for years was unreliable and, according to some tests, offered next to no sun protection at all. Independent analysis by a trusted consumer advocacy group has found that several of Australia's most popular, and expensive, sunscreens are not providing the protection they claim to, kicking off a national scandal.
We may complain about our weather but we aren't afraid of it!

[Stanley]

A loud bang and the demise of my microwave! My only recourse is a swift trip to Garlic's on Monday morning.

[Cathy]

Gosh, I bet that made your heart jump.
I’ve had this one for about 30 years. Never a problem, let’s hope it continues .
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[Stanley]

You've done it now Cathy, that post is guaranteed to tempt fate!

[Julie in Norfolk]

We have a hate - hate relationship with white goods, Christmas time is our worst time of year as we are guaranteed the demise of one piece of kitchen ware. We have lost tumble driers, washing machines, cookers (that was fun) and fridges, all the expensive stuff. It happens with such regularity that we always wonder what will stop working / blow up this year.

We don't bother to insure when we buy because we tend to replace in a hurry and I'm not clear about how long it takes to replace something on insurance. anyway think of the money we didn't spend on insuring something that didn't fail!

[Stanley]

I agree with you about not insuring Julie.... How about the contents of a freezer when the fridge dies. I just order another and bite the bullet.

[Stanley]

I've ordered a new microwave from Tesco, a Russell Hobbs. It was £100 cheaper than Garlic's all singing all dancing one. Delivery is Wednesday, I can live with that. I've arranged for bulk waste collection as well.I shall catch my breath and start veggie cooking. XXX

[Tizer]

A bit of old-fashioned trickery still goes a long way and both sides are at it...
`Inflatable tanks and flat-pack guns - inside Ukraine's decoy war' LINK

[Tizer]

And here's something a bit more light-hearted from today's news...
`Knitted soldier army marches into city's minster' LINK

There are a lot more photos from when it was set up to celebrate the D-Day landings last year... BBC

[Tripps]

3.00 pm.
I have just received an alert on my mobile phone. The heading is in an Arabic script, and there is the option of hearing it in Welsh.

The voice announcement is a lady who is clearly not British, and has a pronounced American accent. Some mistake surely.

I shall pay attention to the many Government warnings I have had, that it must be some sort of scam so I shall be extra suspicious, and ignore and delete it.