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I bought a vase last year from a junk shop for £4 as I needed something for my flat. A keen eyed visitor noted that it was likely a Lalique vase. It piqued my curiosity so I took it to a local valuer and ended up selling it on for £2,500.

"Safer" is a slippery word. Without suggesting anybody do anything I suspect that as a pedestrian it's "safer" to close your eyes and run across an A-road than it is to do the same on a busy motorway. Both are "dangerous" and daft. To me it's a...

Hey everyone! A few weeks ago I completed a bucket-list challenge: riding solo and unsupported from London to Paris on my Brompton to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. It was an incredible 4-day adventure, but doing long-distance...

My wife used to smoke she switched to vapes when they were quite new She still vapes. She is the type that refuses to believ things until she has seen proper evidence and she has the background to know what "proper evidence" means What she has...

The water is unlikely to have got in through the vent holes in the stays, they are way too small. Prime suspect would be the top of the seat tube which does not have an engineered fit with the post, and the clamping slot on the tube. These are...

Smoking is like playing Russian Roulette. Vaping is like rolling a pair of dice. If you get a double, then you pick up the gun and play Russian Roulette... :whistle: (Maybe it is actually more like rolling three dice and getting a triple, but...

(I checked this for a cryptic crossword clue...) There are 4 groups of migratory fish: Anadromous (spawn in freshwater; live in sea) Catadromous (spawn in sea; live in freshwater) Potamodromous (live and migrate in freshwater) Oceanodromous...

An ex-cabinet minister saw a couple of copies of his memoirs in a secondhand shop, and noticed that the signed copy was actually cheaper. He commented to the bookseller who dryly explained "the unsigned ones are rarer"

I just got an email from Training Peaks Virtual about it. They are offering a 10% off coupon and free shipping. Still a lot of money though!

Yep, once. It started weird. I became increasingly aware of people around me, and then more so. I actually felt as though the room (a large museum entrance hall) was getting smaller. Then the light seemed to get dimmer. Then I was just...

I was listening to a R2 phone in about this earlier.....they had a Doctor in. By a strange coincidence i had my first ever one yesterday evening. I have read about them previously and had a good idea what was happening. It was for all the world...

Yes when I in the midst of divorce and I was out running and I'd have dark thoughts and my breathing went AWOL (possibly liked with doing speed sessions) and I had to stop and calm down otherwise I would have been one the front of a HGV....

The Doctor on R2 said to think of things like fluffy rabbits and teddy bears. I suppose that fits with your TEBTDMWBD

I have had them off and on throughout my life! The first time I came to Yorkshire was in my mid-20s, to visit friends in Haworth. We went to Keighley railway station at the end of my visit and I joined a long queue to buy a ticket. I got more...

My Android tablet also has problems with a few post editing features. Inserting URLs, for example - I have to type the code in myself rather using the popup to do the job.