Recent content by boogie man

I was going to say that AEG is part of a bigger conglomerate company but you’ve already covered it. They’re basically just trading on the previously respected name nowadays, same as many others like Bosch, Siemens etc.. Certainly there’s no guarantee where your “German” product will be made, but...

I always say this but with appliances it’s simply the luck of the draw. You can get cheap stuff that can last donkey’s years or expensive things that go phutt in a couple of years, and there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason why. Case in point: we had a relatively expensive AEG built in...

Contact the retailer, your contract of sale is with them so that should be your first step . You never know, you might get something out of them.

We’re still wading through it. I’ll finish it because I want to see how it pans out but I thought it was preposterous at times. Enjoyed Three Body Problem although I thought it got a wee bit weak after the first few episodes. Also really enjoyed Fallout, its definitely weird but wonderful.

Except it came up on my FB feed only last week. Ok probably because people are posting comments on it, but it’s still misleading.

I noticed that too. It’s a bit naughty of Ancestry to keep running the ad on FB when they must know that offer expired a long time ago. Surprised they haven’t been jumped on by the advertising authority.

The site might be all right but spray on foam insulation definitely isn’t… terrible stuff that causes lots of problems.

Or have jobs.

There’s still some need for cash, although I don’t use it regularly nowadays. Our neighbour comes round every year collecting for Poppy Day. He was complaning last year that nobody had any cash to put in the tin and that he might have to invest in a card reader. Similarly, my wife and me...

I had a reasonably convincing call yesterday from my bank’s “security department ” telling me there had been a couple of suspicious attempts at using my card in Scotland and how my card would be blocked and a new one issued. There was then a lot of advice about being careful online and not...

Seems that you can book a trip, give the holiday company your passport details, check in, go through security at the airport but it only gets revealed as an issue when you get to the boarding gate. It might well have been in force since Brexit changed the rules but I don’t think it’s been very...

Just EU. Holidaymakers going to EU caught out by 10-year-passport rule https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209

My wife nearly got caught out by the 10 year rule as her passport had 10 years, plus nearly 9 months carried over from her previous one. We’re going to an EU country in a few months time and she wouldn’t have been able to fly. So she’s had to apply for a new one, even though there was still...

We’ve had Howdens units in our last two houses and have been very happy with them. Unfortunately they don’t sell direct to the public, so you’ll either have to get a tradesman to buy them on your behalf or make yourself up some ahem, trade paperwork.

“Technical issues” apparently. Seems to be ok now but I’ve changed my passwords just in case.