Satsumaa

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Satsumaa replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11 minutes ago

Re: Food swapping

Killjoy ;-)

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Satsumaa posted to the Living Below Your Means board. 33 minutes ago

Food swapping

Interesting article on Food Swapping: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22539062

"The swaps are organised events where people trade home-grown, home-made or foraged foods [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 19:12

Re: Army Cadet Killed:

...the attack may have been filmed...

*This* is the first thing people think of doing with their phones?
I can appreciate not fancying the idea of wading in to a fight with men wielding machetes, but planning a YouTube premiere of [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 17:39

Re: Car vs Cycle

However the other facts are hardly clear from the report - at one point it says the incident occurred on a "narrow country lane" yet a few sentences later the cyclist claims the car came onto "his side of the [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Books board. 09:49

Re: The Japanese have a word for it

How dare you! That man's books have never passed my eyes!

Did you read the review in Telegraph? [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Weight Control board. 09:05

Re: Yay, just bought a 'perfect' leather jacket!

Congratulations!

I assume your eyesight must be decent, if you could see where you were going in there!
Just don't visit Hollister without your glasses. Or a head torch. You'll never be seen again.

:-)

(on a [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Books board. 09:01

Re: The Japanese have a word for it

Is there a word for the overwhelming disappointment you feel when you have valiantly tried, and failed, to finish a book because it is so bad. That moment you close the cover and put it down without marking your place.

Or a word for that [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Weight Control board. 08:40

Re: Will-power

My GP told me as you get older you have to exercise until you drop to lose weight.

Terrapin, I beg you to please stop posting this comment. It is such a dangerous thing to put 'out there' on the internet, as some people might be daft [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 08:19

Re: Flight upgrade

I always ask at bag drop/check in how full the flight is (unfortunately usually jam packed) but I also go and politely ask at the sales/transfer desk airside if there are any *paid* upgrades currently available.

This on the back of a [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Cyclists Corner - Cycling Fools board. 08:34

Re: "definitely" got one...

Update: http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i-knocked-a...

Police have caught up [more]

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Satsumaa posted to the Cyclists Corner - Cycling Fools board. 17:22

"definitely" got one...

Yikes. It looks like they've tracked her down (no pun intended).

What a stupid woman.

https://www.facebook.com/roadcc/posts/10151391343035614:0

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Satsumaa replied to the Grumpy Old Fools board. 18:31

Re: Another service industry gripe!

You've wasted more time with all the ' you used before the word "phone", too

Long time since the apostrophe was needed, it is now accepted by OED as a word (noun or verb) in their own right. Same goes for fridge, bus, net [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Grumpy Old Fools board. 15:07

Re: B****dy TV

A house I can see from my bathroom window has a solid-looking dish about 3 times the size of an ordinary grey, mesh-style sky dish, nicely mounted on the front of his home.

I have no idea what he is receiving on that thing, but it makes his [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 14:25

Re: Commuting from Virginia Water

Depends what time. IMO, the Reading-Waterloo line is horrendous for commuting unless you are a really early bird, and by the time it gets to VW, you've got practically zero chance of a seat. It clears out a bit at Richmond for the Tube, but more [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Legal Issues - Practical board. 14:17

Re: cancelling a car insurance policy

I found this the cheapest:-

But isn't that the thing with insurance companies, that you can ask 100 people who was cheapest for them and get 101 different names?

I search thoroughly every year, but - using your example - [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Building & DIY Fools board. 14:05

Re: New homes

In defence of new builds (semi-det, 2006) mine seems very well constructed. I have no noise issues from next door, and I have nice wide 'accessible' doorways that allowed me to get my gigantic sofa and oversized armchair in without batting an eyelid [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Building & DIY Fools board. 18:13

Re: Bath taps - sizes

Thanks!

Water pressure is not an issue, thankfully!

Appreciate the advice, you will be relieved to hear I will not be attempting to fit new taps myself ;-)

Sats

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Satsumaa replied to the Building & DIY Fools board. 15:46

Re: Bath taps - sizes

Thanks Pete.

Do you mean the adjustable legs will accommodate different distances between the tap holes (or is that a modern standard too)?

Thanks
Sats

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Satsumaa posted to the Cars & Driving board. 14:48

buy2letcars

I have been hearing this pushed on radio ads quite a lot recently. I can't say it holds much (any) attraction for me, but maybe I'm missing the point? <she typed, unconvincedly>

"With [more]

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Satsumaa replied to the Cars & Driving board. 14:29

Re: Roundabout confusion

Is there an argument for making the approach SB stops at into three lanes? It looks wide enough, but I am not qualified to be 100% sure!

Left lane for the left turning marked Boscombe A3049 etc
Middle lane for those turning right onto [more]