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  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited April 2017 #3872

    That's just a general view of one section. I nearly didn't take anything so was surprised to win, just three entries and three wins.

    I felt really bad about missing the appointment so was very lucky to get in later today....filling under a crown, not surprised I blanked it out!

  • KjellNN
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    edited April 2017 #3873

    No need to worry on that score B2, a  simple cut takes less than 10 minutes, and it was £3.50.  There was a steady stream of customers to keep him busy

    However, I understand that the person that does the cutting also owns the business, so as a self employed person the minimum wage would not apply.

    The starting point was indeed quite long though!

    Regular price is £7.

     

  • Bakers2
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    edited April 2017 #3874

    A filling under a crown? I thought the crown was the end of the tooth, it is in my mouth. Or do you mean a root filling or nerve removal? I've had those too, can understand the lapse if memory 😮 extra lucky to be in again today if it is as it takes time. I'll think of you but not about what you're having done 😉

  • EasyT
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    edited April 2017 #3875

    Depends on the situation I suppose. If a one night stop and travelling on a paid for breakfast sounds fine. Personally I would be happy with toast or cereal and get moving rather than wait maybe to 9am. 

    When we have had apartments abroad we have on occasion had a breakfast out. However that has been on Greek Islands where we could breakfast by 8am. In Spain and Spanish islands we found that we were lucky to get breakfast by 9.30 or more often 10am at best and rarely bothered to eat out.

    If I am at a Hotel in UK I normally take breakfast at 7am. 

  • Metheven
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    edited April 2017 #3876

    Compared to Motorway services all of the breakfasts in the places mentioned are edible.

  • EasyT
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    edited April 2017 #3877

    Haircuts: After my wife died I could not bring myself to go for a haircut. She had cut it for the previous 20 years. It was shoulder length before I had it cut. 

  • JVB66
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    edited April 2017 #3878

    Its £9 pound here except on tue/wed when its £7 they do eyebrows and ears (with lit taper) and hot towel  on face to finishsurprised 

  • brue
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    edited April 2017 #3879

    I'm not too sure about the state of the crowns on my teeth, two gold ones, except I think pins are involved and as the gum recedes with time there are leakages at the sides of the crowns and one has caused a problem. Perhaps you were confused by what a dental crown is? Anyway I'm not looking forward to it as I've been warned the crown might need to be re-set. frown

  • KjellNN
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    edited April 2017 #3880

    Only twice have we ever stopped overnight not on a site, once in 1977 in a layby up in the hills outside Oslo, and once in 2014 in a very nice picnic area in North Germany after coming off a very late ferry, both times we were the only occupants.

    Both times we had a water supply with us and made breakfast in the caravan, our usual cereal, toast and tea.  Can think of nothing worse than overnighting in a busy motorway services!

  • KjellNN
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    edited April 2017 #3881

    I declined the eyebrow treatment!

  • brue
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    edited April 2017 #3882

    Hoping OH will soon remove his "winter" beard, the comments from friends and family are getting out of hand. wink I think he pays around £8 at a local hairdressers for a hair cut, but the beard he'll have to sort himself!

  • EasyT
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    edited April 2017 #3883

    Yep, a beard trim is on my 'to do' list today. It looked fine when my hair was longer but now looks too bushy. 

    I remember when my youngest was a couple of years old. I wore a full beard and, as a biker, let it grow bushy in winter to keep out the drafts under the full face helmet. smile

    I shaved my beard and tash off one spring and my youngest would not come near me at first! Thought I was a stranger!

  • papgeno
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    edited April 2017 #3884

    I haven't been to the barber's for over fifty years. My OH has cut my hair ever since we started courting, then again she used to be a hairdresser.

  • Tammygirl
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    edited April 2017 #3885

    Same here 45 years I've been doing my OH's used to loads of Squaddies hair back in the day. I even take the trimmers away with us on our long trips, never know one day I might get a few customers wink always do his eyebrows and ears but the nose he has to see to himself. surprisedlaughing

  • ABM
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    edited April 2017 #3886

    My  Hairdressers  (  2  ladies  so  definitely  not  barbers  !!  )  charge  £4:50  if  I  recall  correctly  --  it's  a  *twice  per  annum*  event  after  the  N E C shows.  They  never  did  find  my  old  school  cap  tho'  frown

    as  for  the  beard  etc,  thats  cut  when  my  duvet  needs  a  refill  !!

  • IanH
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    edited April 2017 #3887

    How does the lit taper thing work?? undecided

  • trellis
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    edited April 2017 #3888

    Very very carefully cool.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited April 2017 #3889

    Malcolm

    If you get the chance have a look at yesterday's Guardian online, quite a lot about Deliveroo and their business practises. 

    David

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  • JVB66
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    edited April 2017 #3891

    They are Real barbers from Turkey,and shaves are done with cut throat razors,honed on a leather strop,the after shave till stings as in the "old days"cool

  • Bakers2
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    edited April 2017 #3892

    Who's had their email request to take part in the clubs latest survey? I have, I've done it took an age a good hour! And I've started a new discussion on the subject. Be good to hear what others reckon. Was a good excuse to sit in the sun so no all bad 😆😉

  • JVB66
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    edited April 2017 #3893

    Busy day today painting garden bench and garden entrance door with Demidekk  ,and house number with hammerite? white main colour black numbers ,while doing it council came through cutting  and strimming verges kicking up dust,  good job wind was taking it away and man with blower clearing cuttings blew them away when he saw what i was doing surprised

  • IanH
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    edited April 2017 #3894

    Yes but how does the taper thing wok??

  • EmilysDad
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    edited April 2017 #3895

    They dip it in alcohol, set fire to it then stick it in your hairy ears & up your hairy nose ...... result being no more hairy ears or nose cool

  • ABM
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    edited April 2017 #3896

    No  No  No,  thats  not  true  !! 

    First  They  drink  the  alcohol,  then  stick  the  flaming  taper  ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,

    Must  admit  tho'  it  is  the same  result  cool !!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited April 2017 #3897

    We had to come up this way, EasyT, to get our caravan serviced as it was booked in for Friday.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited April 2017 #3898

    We had breakfast at Arlos, Ian, as Burger King was not open until 08:00. We each had scrambled eggs on toast with mushrooms and tomatoes for £4.99 each so the food voucher covered the entire cost of the breakfast.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited April 2017 #3899

    The advantage, DaveFl2,  is the saving in time and fuel cost of searching for a site off the motorway and also the convenience of not having to unhitch and hitch up again next morning. Also the convenience of no time restriction. On some club sites you cannot leave before 7 a.m. and we needed to be there for 8 a.m. 

  • IanH
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    edited April 2017 #3900

    Malcolm - couldn't you have saved even more time and fuel by going to a service place nearer to where you live? Or better still, get a mobile engineer to come to you?

    Never heard of someone making a two day trip to get to the service centre before.......

  • EasyT
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    edited April 2017 #3901

    Makes sense to me Malcolm. Sooner the 'van is in the sooner you have it back.