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British Gas putting up the service contract price as we had a repair in the last 12 months! Der! Isn't that what I pay for? Bye bye BG!

On reflection:-

When an "Olympic Breakfast" wasn't the healthy option!

Recent "traffic calming" measures in our locality means a series of "chicanes", "mini-humps" (roundabouts), extra pedestrian crossings (some within 100 yards of each other) and bits of kerbs that jut out into the road that have already caught folk unawares, resulting in buckled wheels and...

Finding out that watch lubricants (oils and silicone greases) work perfectly well on guitars. Perfect transitioning from watch repairing to luthiering! Now, just to get my guitar timing as good as the watch!

When an electric guitar was an acoustic with a pickup screwed to the bottom end of the fretboard!

WAMT - Seller on Gumtree advertises something I want at £375. I ask when I can view. Apologizes as he mistyped and says it should have been £425. I ask if he will take a part ex. He says that he might. Advert is withdrawn. I message, he says that it is already sold! Item is readvertised...

Here's the one that I sold for £55 back in 1967 or so! (after going over the big pond and back again), then turning up not far from me a few years ago!

East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire) has to be up there I guess? https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/20723362.10-best-bird-watching-sites-east-anglia/

Companies that don't update their stock lists, so that when you've done your searching, got to the (online) checkout and entered everything that you have to, you are told that the item is out of stock! grrrrr!

I never did rate Elvis! Johnny Cash was much more believable! never go out without cash (quote from June Carter!).

I used to work with kids with special needs and came up against lots of "obstacles", often from my own "colleagues" who should have known better. The kids were special alright and it was the saddest day of my life when I could no longer work with them due to redundancy. There were tears on...

..... and how many people know that Woodbine cigarette packets were exactly 15 thou thick but squashed to 12 thou when it was damp? The clever ones will know that points set up with a damp strip of cig packet, would be over advanced and might fire you (or your leg) over the handlebars when you...

Tennis, when the girls stuffed their balls up their knickers. Still happens but now it's "they" who do it! Assuming that they still have spare ones??? :muted: ;)

Latest from the BBC on the issue:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68675652