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You’re right about the editing Hooped, there’s be no point to the programme if they were all nice, polite young people with good jobs and loving families would there?

Hooped, does that mean we have to swallow the toothpaste rather than spitting it out?

Thank you Dave, I knew there was a saying but couldn’t remember it

We use a filter jug Bam which seems to work well.

Wasn’t she brought up in Leeds though and went to school there.

We’ve always had a water meter, in Reading and now here. We save our washing up and do it all after dinner in the evening, it’s only cereal dishes and cups so it’s not worth just doing that. Then the water is kept to be used on the garden. I don’t use my tumble drier now but when I did I even used t...

It was me Hooped, I don’t run the tap the whole time I’m cleaning my teeth just when I’m rinsing out the toothpaste.

I have to say I agree with him Bam!

I decided to be very careful with water usage so I stopped running the tap while cleaning my teeth and just dipped my toothbrush into a glass of water, then I read about the huge salaries paid to the bosses of water companies and how much is wasted because they’re not doing the necessary maintenance...

Do other countries have hosepipe bans? Do they in Australia?

My parents took me to WW when I was 4, we stayed in a caravan, there were earwigs in the caravan and I got a throat infection and spent most of the time in bed sucking Tyrosets and watching the earwigs worried they’d fall on me. Never been since.

Thanks Pi, that’s the ones, in fact I think it’s time to re read them

I was told to exaggerate the turning of the head to check the rear view mirror which of course I’ve never done since.

I’ll check out that writer Pi, I enjoyed the others you recommended to me but can’t remember the titles, was it about a house called The Vines? Just my cup of tea.

I dislike books that are badly edited with typos and repetitions, I sometimes wonder whether they have proof readers any more. Nothing too deep but intelligent certainly, I’m not a fan of Danielle Steele because she starts every blasted sentence with And ! Drives me mad so I don’t read them. I’ve be...

They’re rats, they knew what they were signing up for!

Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil !

Oh,Mayfield, how long ago was it?!

Oh dear that’s sad.

Oh yes!

I’d read anything Pi, all the comics and my books as well. I liked the Sue Barton books, Noel Streatfield books and anything else I could get my hands on. I’m still the same.

I didn’t just take the free gift Pi I took and read the whole comic!

As a little Forumite I lived in a newsagents run by my parents so I had access to all the comics, often one of them would have a free gift taped to the front, things like the ‘black’ soap was one of them. 3D glasses was another.

I think we’ve witnessed the death of humour in the last couple of years.

I remember a block of soap that when used by your unsuspecting victim dyed their hands black ! And itching powder

I was just going to suggest that, terrifying that they could cripple us with technology.

The carnival is over… RIP

Yes D5 I thought so but sadly I can’t get replacements, so for the want of a filter the cleaner was lost

I agree about the stairs, we have a lot of them which is why we have the small Vax.

Yes I’ve done all that, it’s as bad on vinyl flooring too. One day we’ll have to take it to someone to see if it can be repaired, in the meantime I have a choice of a Vax or a Henry but I prefer the Panasonic.

This automatically adjusts for hard floors or carpet so there’s no way to turn off the brush Bam, and I can’t see a bung Dave. I’ve cleaned out the hose to make sure there’s no blockage, I think there may be a problem with the filter, it’s not possible to buy replacements now so I tried using anothe...

Liz - Have you seen this near you? https://www.cheltenhampaintfestival.co.uk/ The ones by Curtis Hylton look good. The guide says he's painted the Holiday Inn Express on Dunalley Street. He sometimes paints under the A329M and they look amazing. This is one he did on Portman Road - https://maps.app...

Perhaps you could tell me how to reduce the suck of my Panasonic vacuum D5, it’s so strong I can’t push it across the floor!

I don’t remember a time when we didn’t have to pay a gas bill.

I remember we were told we’d be getting free gas from the North Sea, what happened to that?