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It also avoids condensation forming on the eggshell which can breed bacteria. Only bleached eggs should be stored in a fridge.

Having a small private pension can actually leave you worse-off as you are then disqualified from claiming means-tested benefits such as pension credit, rent allowance and council tax rebate. That's possibly why the government is so keen on everybody having one.

It's to compensate for the years when pensions failed to keep pace with the rise in earnings. It would have cost too much to do it in one go so the formula was devised to close the gap gradually over a number of years. In spite of that a million and half pensioners are forced to claim...

I don't have a Linked-in account and still get emails from them. When I asked them to stop sending me emails they told me I need to enter my Linked-in password. How can I can I enter a password for an account I don't have?

Debt-collectors again. How is it my job to prove somebody I've never heard of doesn't live at this address?

I'm old enough to remember when sickness benefit was paid at the exact same rate as unemployment benefit and there were very few claims for sickness benefit back then. It was also a lot easier to claim unemployment benefit than sickness benefit. It was only after the Thatcher administration...

Do we really need more than one Lucy Letby thread?

The demolition and reconstruction of the old medieval city actually began long before the Blitz. There was a joke at the time that Hitler had done much of the city planner's job for them.

What amuses me is that their names are Butch and Sundance! (or something very similar?)

I did it once after taking a wrong turn in an unfamiliar road layout. A police car passed me and never said a word!

Those tiny 50g jars of Gold Blend, looked almost like samples. I don't use very much myself, for a long time I only ever served it to visitors who preferred it to real coffee and it goes stale very quickly after breaking the seal if not used up.

Ours was left outside to freeze in winter while in summer the birds pecked at half the foil tops and shit all over the others! :mad:

It's in case the Martians invade. They'll all die from it and the world will be saved.

Hearts of Iron IV, I prefer the earlier version without all the silly add-ons. I also like playing as Indonesia rather than Holland.

It's intentional. Scriptwriters know their only chance of continued employment is to write an open ending even when they're told long in advance it will be the series finalé. There's always the hope a series will be brought back at some future date (which it sometimes is).