Best fish and chips I’ve found in Edinburgh is the Fishmarket on Newhaven harbour. Expect to queue though.

Isn’t what OneDrive/Google drive is for.

The Ofgem cap is £x per year for an average user. How each supplier sets their day/ unit prices for electricity and gas within that cap is a commercial decision for each company.

Heating and hot water (combi) for a 125m2, 3 bed terrace used approx 100l per month for us. Was internal and would have gone external when it needed replacing as you’d sometimes have an oil smell inside.

I pulled into a petrol station (to use the shop – not for fuel!!) on Saturday that clearly had cones in front of each pump to show that they’re out of use. The number of drivers who drove in – moved the cones and tried to fill up was astonishing.

Do the pupils remove their ties during practical lessons? Struggling to understand why you can’t wear a shirt and just add the tie and jacket when necessary.

Have to wear a branded polo shirt in my work. Depends what you wear them with whether they look smart or not so some people manage to look smartish but a lot don’t and all polo shirts look rubbish after a few months.

Depends where you are in the country (urban / rural) and how much local competition there is. You can use clickmechanic to get a rough price for your area for that work. I can save £100 by using my parents postcode compared to mine but they’re 250 miles away. The garages that quote on that are still 5-6 miles away which requires more time and faffing with buses or bikes or I can pay a bit more and use the garage 1/2 mile away which I can walk to.

But arguably he’s conscious, breathing and was presumably able to converse with ambulance control in a fairly lucid and coherent manner therefore it’s highly likely there will be significant numbers of people who are in a worse situation than he is who require more immediate medical attention and are rightly given a higher priority. This is always going to happen in a system with a finite resource and won’t change unless you have a system with massive amounts of redundancy.

Everyone believes their emergency is the most important but unfortunately to the people who deal with this stuff all the time it’s probably not.

I know there’s a massive three blackspot from the A82/83 junction at Tarbert on Loch Lomond all the way through Arrochar and up the rest and be thankful and most of the way to Lochgoilhead. Reception is pretty poor on Three all around Loch Goil. I seem to remember it being pretty poor/ non existent around The Cobbler as well.

It’s also worth noting that whilst you can make 999 calls via any network if you’re not using your own network the emergency services receive far less location detail and don’t know what phone number you’ve called from.

Not Italian but Mediterranean so no pizza or pasta but Mezemeze on Rose Street is very nice and some of their dishes are simple and plain so may suit. Their menu is online so you can check it out.

Blue Barbakan and Corner Grill house were very nice for evening meals when we went a month ago. Don’t go to Browns cafe for lunch. Lucky Days is good for cakes but a bit hit and miss for savoury. Drift-in was nice too.

Fueled is on the money so far!!

Broke my ulna and radius and had them plated and screwed. Backslab cast for 10days, cast came off then quite limited wrist movement.
Did physio religiously so movement improved to about 98-99% eventually. Went on a snowboarding holiday 8 weeks after breaking arm and ballsed up my rotator cuff of same arm but radius and ulna were fine.

It may depend on how your parents in law will was set up but before you act just make sure that the premium bonds haven’t been bought with your brother in law’s inheritance from your father in law and are on effect nothing to do with your mother in law’s remaining assets.

Have a look at Snugpak sleeping bags or Go Outdoors own brand OEX but you won’t go wrong with anything from any of the major brands (Vango, Alpkit, Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, Mountain Equipment or Rab) as they all have cheaper synthetic ranges).

It’s all a question of compromise and balance of price, warmth, weight and pack size.

Make sure you get a compression spider or stuff sack.

Agree with above about silk liners but they are a bit spendy and maybe better to spend that money on a slightly warmer sleeping bag is more economical.

The sleeping mat is possibly more important than the sleeping bag at keeping you warm – a basic Karrimat will keep you warm enough but airbeds are far more comfortable.

Comparison sites work reasonably well if you fall in the range of normal as defined by the insurers.

Car insurance – they work well until you drive something exotic or want to drive it somewhere unusual or compete / show in someway.

House insurance – works well as long as you don’t collect anything or have hobbies involving equipment.

Travel insurance – works well if you do 2 weeks package holiday in Benidorm. Less well if you travel independently to obscure places doing multiple activities.

Life Insurance – don’t even go there. Everyone’s needs are too different.

Will we notice the difference dropping down to 1080P (full HD)?

The Guardsman splitter can go where ever you want. I think the Travall only splits 50:50 but you’d need to confirm that with someone who has one.

Not sure how the Travall splitter works but I’ve got the Guardsman version and can remove the splitter and guard in less than 2mins. Takes a couple of minutes longer to fit.

No need to tie them to anything. What would that achieve?

Ours didn’t travel well initially (rubber boot liner makes cleaning half digested dog food up much easier). However got better with age and usually stares out of the back window giving puppy eyes to whoever is behind us and occasionally lies down or looks at us through the grill.

Dog guard above rear seat to stop dog climbing over. If you still need to put stuff in the boot then you can get dividers to split the boot into 2 so you have a safe area for the dog where stuff won’t fall onto them. Check out Guardsman dog guards and Travall. With a popular car like a Mondeo you may get lucky 2nd hand.

Surely the school provided some sort of reference to the college. Can you not find that and use / adapt that.

Start packing well in advance. Get as much newspaper/ bubble wrap / packaging materials as possible. Keep your eye on Gumtree / Freecycle / FB marketplace for boxes or find a friend who works somewhere that has lots of boxed deliveries (lots of supermarket boxes are rubbish – science labs are a good source) Buy twice as many rolls of brown parcel tape as you think. Buy a parcel tape gun. Have lots of old blankets in the van for packing and protecting. Big things in first then pack the boxes in the gaps. I preferred medium and small boxes as it was too tempting to overfill big boxes with heavy stuff and it’s easier to find small box sized spaces in the van.

I’ll be surprised if your van is big enough. I used a 7.5T van with tail lift. 1 trip is easier than multiple trips. The empty return journey may be a pain

Check your house insurance – it may not cover self moves.

Goods in transit insurance is worth it for peace of mind against losing everything you own if the van catches fire, has an accident or gets stolen or the contents get stolen.

If you’ve maxed out the RAM (check you have on the Crucial memory website) the only other things you can do are swap the spinny hard drive for an SSD,get as much fluff out of the fans and case as possible and make sure you haven’t got any McAfee/Norton antivirus hogging resources – just use Windows defender.

I’m still using a 15 year old Toshiba 17″ laptop (was Vista now W10) which is fine for web and office stuff. Does struggle with playing high Res videos off Vimeo etc – not sure if that’s due to graphics or WiFi limitations so need to check with an ethernet cable and downloaded videos. Not sure how it would cope with video calls as haven’t used it for that but if you’ve done all the above and it’s still struggling then it may be new machine time. As others said look at ex corporate machines or chromebooks but you probably won’t get a 17″ screen.

If you do lose NCD you’re probably only going to lose a few %. If you’re with my insurer you’d drop from 41% to 35% and take 5 years to get back to max discount. You’ll need to check your insurers website to check exact percentages and how many years it’ll take to get back to where you were. There’s likely to be some loading on your base premium as you’ve made a claim but this could be quite small. I’ve had 2 claims in the last year one of which cost me NCD and was low value (sub £1000) and my renewal premium was £20 more than last year. With a zero excess policy it’s a no brainer for me to claim on the policy.

1. I’m not convinced about that; 2. Reading out numbers on a phone call is more likely to jumble digits, than mix the order of the words.

That’s not what I was saying. Reading numbers or words in the wrong order is a different issue. If someone is reading number digits to you there are only 10 digits and they sound quite different even in strong accents / dialects. There’s thousands of words in English, lots of which sound similar, can be changed to sound like other words depending on accent / dialect and with the W3W system there’s no context of a sentence to help you identify a misheard word.

I know – I’m a police call handler.

An issue with W3W is that words are inherently easier to mishear on a phone call than numbers. If you consider that someone on a 999 call is probably not at their calmest and most rational and may well be passing you W3W provided to them by someone else nearby who’s got the app open while they make the call it’s very easy to end up with wrong words and particularly easy to lose plurals. Even if you phonetically confirm the W3W back to them they’re quite likely to agree with you even if it’s incorrect so you need to confirm location from other descriptions they give you.

If you’re driving your parents vehicles that regularly you’re probably best being a named driver on your parents policy or using your own vehicle.

Driving other vehicles on your own policy is usually only 3rd party cover so any damage you cause to your parents vehicle wouldn’t be covered.

Driving other vehicle cover is becoming rarer as it got abused and as customers are price focused is an area of cover that is removed to make policy pricing competitive.

It’s pretty easy to reduce your excess to whatever value you want. The price difference between having £0 excess and £250 excess was less than £15 (for me)

For some reason decided that the sensible route from Brighton to Dover is along the coast not via the motorway. Got to Dover to see ferry leaving the harbour. Thought no worries there’ll be another in an hour or two. Except that I’d saved money by booking with Speedferries who only had one boat so it was 4 hours to the next boat but the boat broke down and could only use one engine so it was actually 6 hours. And the boat was still broken so the crossing took 3 hours instead of two. Landed in France at 1600 instead of 0900. There was very little to do in Dover at 0600 on a Sunday 20 years ago.

The value for money of your £36 burgers depends entirely on what you’ve bought. Did the burgers come from a box from Booker (20 burgers for £1) or has the restaurant made their own burgers from fresh steak and developed their own seasoning. Have they made their own relishes/ dressings or bought 5L of burger dressing for £1. Did they make their own bread or buy 20 Chorleywood burger buns for a £1. Use Kraft singles plastic cheese or a quality proper cheese.

Only you can tell if you got value for money based on what you received and whether you’re able to appreciate the difference between the different quality levels.

Prices have been too low across the dining out sector for years. They need to increase as 1% profit margin isn’t sustainable. Expect to see fewer places but charging more money and people not going to eat out as often.

That’s normal process. It means they believe a crime has been committed so have allocated an officer to investigate.

Probably depends on how hot your BBQ is. Can’t imagine our gas BBQ being able to make that pizza oven any hotter than a domestic oven. If you’re using charcoal or have a decent gas BBQ then you may have a chance.

Tefal travel mug in 360ml or 500ml sizes. Fits in bottle cage and keeps stuff hot for hours and goes in the dishwasher and reasonably cheap from Amazon / TKMax.

Lidl wafer thin roast chicken

You could try the cost angle. It’s over 10 years since I worked in the field but back then it was about £5-£10 for a PCR test for a single virus. A test to identify you as an individual (paternity test) was £200-£250 and a health screen looking for disease markers was £1000s (and pretty new cutting edge). If you google for paternity test price and a full DNA health screen from 23andme or similar you should be able to find up to date costs.

To be bilingual and be able to pass as native you probably need to start speaking the language as a young child hence why my 10 year old sounds as Scottish as anyone else in his class despite Polish being his first language and not speaking English until he was 3 whereas his mum who only started speaking English in her 20s will likely always speak English with a Polish accent but her Russian which she started speaking as a child probably sounds more native (although I can’t tell as I don’t speak Russian)

To reduce spam calls to a landline the best options are being ex-directory and signing up to a call minder / guardian service with your provider.

Final salary is one type of DB (defined benefit), main other type is career average but any pension scheme where you know what you’re going to receive post retirement is a defined benefit.

DC (defined contribution) is where you know what’s paid in (x% of salary) but have no idea until the day you retire what you will be receiving post retirement.