My Dad was a vinyl hoarder; mainly country & western. We couldn't cremate it with him, which would have solved the problem, and he was always...
Attention seekers seek attention and get it. Attention seekers gets wrong kind of attention and don't like it. Attention seekers gets attention by...
Indeed. The energy cost per transaction is completely, absolutely, criminally and -- even worse -- deliberately insane. It's one of the reasons...
Carers have to be careful how they spend other people's money and 'paying themselves' from it, because if there's a fall-out in the extended...
Thanks for the reminder to check on things. But when I committed financial suicide by giving up work for "a few" years to see Mum through her...
We're allowed to earn up to about £120 a week on top the the £67 though. I could do that easily as long as I tied my mother to her chair so she...
Just found that you can use unused call credit (from the £10 quarterly payments) to pay for the next quarterly payment. This solves my only issue...
They've just mullered that, so I'm shifting to 1p mobile (1, 1, 1). But that's piggy-backing off EE so no help. I've been impressed by EE coverage...
Ok, I cried. My memory of the Apollo 11 landing is very hazy... I was 6 and my Dad'd got me out of bed while he got ready for an early shift. But...
Season 2 is both slow and cumbersome and quietly brilliant. The tale of a man trying to do the right thing for his people as the world and...
Sennheisers here for the last 35+ years. A bit... well, sad over tech? Yes, I guess. Maybe I should have spent more and upgraded my 580s a bit...
FX: <old man muttering under his breath about the price of 17" CRTs in the 90s>
Most of our evolutionary thinking was probably done when moving... towards food, away from predators, towards a mate, away from a mate's mate. So...
I spent a lot of time looking through this guy's output https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGuitarNick https://www.guitarnick.com/ when I was starting...
When I was 17 I ended up hospitalised with asthma because the landlord finally got round to addressing some of the damp issues in the house. Turns...
Sorry to hear about the right eye. I've had an almost useless left all my life, and so I've had a lifelong paranoia about anything happening to...
Many of the most brilliant brains in the world are wasting their lives in big finance instead of doing something useful for humanity that pays...
I've been there. I used to finish a night shift sometimes, travel 180 miles on a train, fix a problem because Mum was in a right state, and then...
The older version, https://www.amazon.co.uk/BroadLink-RM-Universal-Remote-Control-Black/dp/B01FK2SDOC is what I set up at my mother's, back before...
I used to fingerpick 99% of the time, which I found a lot easier than using a plectrum (apart from for basic strumming, obviously). But in the...
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