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As long as the upstairs is on the same power circuit. We have two separate power circuits in our house and powerline is next to useless on the other circuit.
 
we/family have found that sometimes its best to go a smaller corner shop, village shop etc rather than the big named stores.

They have been a godsend for us these past few weeks.

Don't think this is the right thread but hey ho.
 
PPB said:
we/family have found that sometimes its best to go a smaller corner shop, village shop etc rather than the big named stores.

They have been a godsend for us these past few weeks.

Don't think this is the right thread but hey ho.
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Agreed and said it before, the country gas has gotten ingrained and lazy using these big places.
Personally hate how supermarkets have monopolised every high street service in the last 20 years.
 
playtheace said:
Agreed and said it before, the country gas has gotten ingrained and lazy using these big places.
Personally hate how supermarkets have monopolised every high street service in the last 20 years.
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Virtually every town around here is dead due to Supermarkets, Hednesford, Rugeley Cannock are all shadows of their former selves, but its not the supermarkets faults they're just working to a demand, it's the shoppers fault for being idle and wanting everything conveniently under one roof, we have two Tescos within two mile of each other ???
 
Anybody use an electric shaver? Looking for one to do my head with every couple of days, I can't wet shave it that often as it cripples my skin. Was looking for a decent recommendation.
 
I was about to buy myself a skull shaver gold to replace my ten year old clippers. I didn't as I cant justify dropping £110 on it in the current uncertain circumstances so can't give a personal recommendation, but my research led me to this being the best option.
 
Don’t really want to go that high to be honest, was thinking around £50 or so. If that’s what it takes though then I might have to. I’m going to grow my beard but need to keep my head bald to not look completely stupid.
 
I went through loads of clippers until I bought a pair of ceramic bladed Remingtons, they served me well for over 10 years and never went blunt like all metal ones do.

Only reason I changed was I lost the old charger. The latest pair I got cost me under £30 and have been fine for over 2 years now.
 
My clippers are fine to be fair but I usually wet shave down to the bone afterwards. I want an actual shaver rather than clippers that will keep my canister as bald as possible.
 
Gotcha, I dont go to the bone myself, mate at work uses one of those little hand held ones, does it every morning on the way into work, swears by it. I'll ask him what he uses when it's a more reasonable hour
 
Insomnia - anyone suffer with this and more importantly has anyone found anything useful that works. Tried herbal pills, all the recommended stuff to help you sleep but really think I need some pills to help me out now. Been pretty bad for the past 3 years but the last 6 months are getting worse
 
Hi mate, yeah, insomnia is a nasty one. Started to suffer from that a couple of years ago, te root cause was having a tough time at work, it's nasty.

The Mrs bought me some Night Kalms, which I was highly sceptical. I have historic, extensive experience of things that will send you to sleep that I definitely wouldn't recommend you try and didn't think that anything legal would make a difference.

These do, for me anyway and the effect isn't placebo either. I pop one just before I go to bed last thing at night, and I drift off nice and peacefully. Because they worked so well, when things at work got worse and I was getting stressed out during the day, she bought me some day kalms, which also worked a treat, just took the edge of things, but one morning I popped a night Kalms by mistake. I ended up calling the Mrs from work by about 9.30 saying I didn't know what the hell was going on, I felt like I was off my head, and was going to come home and could she call a cab I needed to get to casualty, something wasn't right.
She'd bought me a pill tray thing that contains 7 little flip top boxes with 2 compartments, one with a arising sun on and the other with a moon on, so you can a weeks worth of day and night pills out and know when you've taken them. Luckily she looked at that, and spotted that I'd popped my night kalm instead of day one by mistake. As soon as I knew what was happening I was fine and just settled in to enjoy the buzz. A couple of mates commented that I was acting a bit sluggish, when I explained to them what had happened they cracked up and spent the morning grinning at me at me
and bringing me coffee to try and keep me alert.

Eventually, I discovered a far better cure which was to walk in one morning and catch the MD off guard by cheerfully asking for a quick word and resigning on the spot, with immediate effect. I was up front and said it was purely for health reasons , as that had been deteriorating, I'd changed almost every other aspect of my life and it hadn't improved, and work was the only thing left that had been a constant during the deterioration. It didn't cure it straight away, but it was an almost instant relief watching the stress move from my shoulder to his and my line manager's shoulders as they started to panic over the effect of their most senior and longest serving employee leaving. I' m not blowing my own horn, I worked for them for along time during which we expanded from a team of 6 with a handful of clients to what is now a multi national organisation with 4 offices in 3 countries whose biggest client is Google, and was pretty much got taken for granted for the last 2 years I was there which was confirmed when the MD told me ' we thought you'd never leave.' 3 of my clients cancelled their contracts immediately as soon as I left, 2 of them approached me as soon as they heard, encouraged me to set up on my own and contracted me direct as a self employed consultant.

The only reason I've blabbed on so long about that is because work was indeed the root cause and although it took a while, once I'd removed that from my life things started to go back to normal.

You can throw as many cures at the problem as you want, but until you identify what's causing it, the problems never going to go away.

At the moment, lack of regular exercise you get just from leaving the house and doing normal things like climbing stairs at work, walking round the office, shopping whenever you want and walking to the pub wont be helping, so while I'd encourage you to try night Kalms, you can buy them online through amazon, it's essential that you get to the bottom of whats keeping you awake at night otherwise you're just going to putting a sticking plaster on a larger issue. If you do give them a try, I'd be interested to hear how you get on. Good Luck.
 
A4B27075-4AD1-4317-8CF0-E492AE4972C0.jpgBooz - just spent £23 on eBay on bald-head shaver - used it yesterday and it is ace (the reviews are great too) - smooth as a baby’s bum - image shown.
 
Newbridge Wolf said:
Insomnia - anyone suffer with this and more importantly has anyone found anything useful that works. Tried herbal pills, all the recommended stuff to help you sleep but really think I need some pills to help me out now. Been pretty bad for the past 3 years but the last 6 months are getting worse
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Tried the Sleepeaze from Boots, but this is only a short-term benefit.

I find reading before bed (fiction not factual) very settling, or a hot bath half an hour before bed - no phones after 8. When I put my head down, I often focus on (and count) my breath, so as to stop my active mind going somewhere. Have you tried Yoga Nidra - lovely meditation that also stills the mind. Finally, if I am not sleeping, I get up, go to another room, read a chapter then return to bed and often get back to sleep.
 
Bit of a mundane one given current circumstances but, any gas engineers/fitters on here? The grill on our cooker is playing up and the company we have our cover with is saying they don't know when they can come out.....not sure I want anyone in the house anyway atm.
Problem is, after we've ignited the grill you have to hold the knob in for a few seconds to allow the valve to stay open but it won't work however long you hold the knob in. I'm thinking the thermo coupler is buggered, anyone got any ideas?
 
Boozad said:
My clippers are fine to be fair but I usually wet shave down to the bone afterwards. I want an actual shaver rather than clippers that will keep my canister as bald as possible.
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I don't think you'll ever match a wet shave even with a proper shaver.
 
Newbridge Wolf said:
Gotcha, I dont go to the bone myself, mate at work uses one of those little hand held ones, does it every morning on the way into work, swears by it. I'll ask him what he uses when it's a more reasonable hour
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Much appreciated mucker.
 
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