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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Easy to find lurid turquoise.

    Cordless drill/screwdriver battery!  Dead, and it's the second one so no spare.  German make but none available in France - have toured the local DIYs and googled and there are none in mainland Europe or the UK.  Can get one from the USA for 50$ plus 25$ p&p plus whatever the French customs add on.

    Have found a new one with 2 batteries, a pair of gloves and a 20 piece accessory kit and carrying box for 60€ reduced from 130€.    Delivery 15/7.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    wild edges said:
    There's probably never a good time for these things but the monumental mason that lives in my street has just aquired a new AMG Mercedes and the local funeral director is still driving his bright white Lamborghini around. :| 
    Probably not a good time for my OH to take early retirement 😱😀
    funeral directors fees, ridiculous no wonder he has a car like that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    A relative of mine used to  work for the council in Glasgow and had to arrange funerals for those with no relatives/ money .It used to cost the council £147 yes, ONE hundred and forty seven pounds. 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Our window cleaner would drive about his work in an old banger with a ladder poking out the window. Then I saw him one weekend. He wasn't driving an old banger. Not into cars so I don't know what it was, but it was low, sleek and looked like it was made of plastic so I assume it was one of those sports cars that cost more than a house.
    Still, when you earn £3 a minute with no overheads, I suppose you can afford to treat yourself.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    there was a guy in Goa who used to walk up and down the beach with a "withered" foot. he owned a fleet of taxis and 3 buses. 
    "Begging" was just his hobby. 
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The only fees you need to pay for are the crematorium,  you can do the rest yourself, for nothing.
    Beggars in London, over £1000. Per week.  We’re all in the wrong jobs. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There was a chap who used to sit on the ground on the bridge that leads to the car park at our local shopping centre with a sad look on his face( hopefully his income stream has much reduced recently). Anyway , he would sit there with a fine haircut and fancy trainers.  I wonder which car was his.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ok you westerners! Every time I look out the window, I see dark clouds hurtling in from your direction. Enough already!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Ok you westerners! Every time I look out the window, I see dark clouds hurtling in from your direction. Enough already!!
    We've had enough, "sharing is caring"
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I woke up to the same flat, grey weather as usual. Had breakfast and went into the bathroom to get ready for my day. When I came out it was wall to wall blue sky. It was like some comedy sketch 'How long was I in there?!'. It's greying over again now. Just a cruel reminder of the summer we're not having. :|  I watered all my sedums hoping they'd get a good dose of sunshine today too.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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