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Before we got married my wife and I both had our teeth whitened (there were going to be a lot of smiling photos). It was about £350 each if memory serves. She had hers done in a couple of visits with a fancy light (laser? UV?) and I opted for a couple of weeks overnight in custom-fit whitening trays.
I found them bloody annoying, with unbelievable saliva build-up, so would go the quick method next time, but the results have lasted for 6 years now. As has the marriage. -
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I was using Nord but it was so bloody slow over OpenVPN and they won't do Wireguard.
Now I have switched to Surfshark and so far it works for everything. I have an Asus Router with a London server as the VPN client and connect the TV to it. French TV (and Netflix/Prime) can still come through the Orange Livebox.I also pretend to be Belgian to watch the F1 for free. I do this through the Surfshark app on my Mac Mini over Orange fibre, which is also connected to the TV
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"I was writing the song with the Daily Mail propped up in front of me on the piano, I had it open at their News In Brief, or Far and Near, whatever they call it. There was a paragraph about 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancaster, being discovered and there was still one word missing in that verse when we came to record. I knew the line had to go 'Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.' It was a nonsense verse really, but for some reason I couldn't think of the verb. What did the holes do to the Albert Hall? It was Terry (Doran) who said 'fill' the Albert Hall."
John Lennon
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My answer is always https://www.traderadiators.com/
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Finally got all the concrete rendering off the kitchen fireplace using a hammer & chisel for some, and an SDS chisel for the stubborn bits. It’s going to need some more cleanup and repair, (and paint stripping) but getting the messy job over with meant I could replaster the thin wall on the right and I can now install some wooden panelling over the tiles on the left. Phew.
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Oh bollocks! I'll have to redo it now.
The amount of work I've done in this kitchen alone and it's still not finished. I removed the pine ceiling, repainted the original ceiling and beams, removed two built in cupboards, re-formed some of the walls that were damaged from that, removed a woodburner and flue, removed a rad, replaced another, it's been rewired, and replastered by professionals, and I've done the sink thing, and yet still I have to remove a load of cement rendering that was slapped all over the original granite fireplace and seems to be welded to it. That's a job I wish I hadn't started in the first place.
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When we moved into our house we entered a whole world of brown courtesy of the 90 year old owner. Slowly but surely we have been stripping the house back, rewiring, plastering and decorating to take out the 60s and 80s attempts at updating and making it look like an old house again, but one that works properly. I’ve hated this corner of the kitchen for the 3 years we’ve been living here and actually bought the new sink that long ago. I cut thé new worktop maybe a year ago. But there have been so many other jobs, a stroke and subsequent recovery from that, plus crisis with the in-laws that pushed this job back.
Finally I have had the time to get it sorted. There’s a bit of carpentry left to do but boy, is it looking better!
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Three cancelled my contract, but I have had the same Giff Gaff PAYG sim for 3 years now and have had no problems with it, whatever their T&Cs say. Just turned off roaming, as I don't actually want to use it - it's just there to receive authorisation text messages from the UK Gov, or bank when necessary. I've never even burned through my first £10 credit.
I think it needed to be activated in the UK, but after that it was all good.
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Ripping them all and having your music on a Mac Mini or an iPhone.
Then giving them to a charity shop.