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HEM wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 6:56 pm Clipboard_12-20-2025_01.jpg

(Apparently seen on FB)

Fred Dibnah must've been up there!
For non-ancient Brits:

Yes, Callan and poor Old Lonely! Sure it's free to view but I pay to get ad free viewing.

YouTube is great, well worth subscribing to to avoid the ads. I originally subscribed just to create music playlists. So many old programmes available, drama, crime, documentaries, old comedy favourites .... I binge watch the Portrait and Landscape artist of the year programmes, Would I Lie to you a...

I don't think I was charged for using my Sparkasse Geldautomat (it has to be one of the Ein-Auszahlung ones.) Frau Google tells me that payment or not varies from branch to branch.

I went to my local Sparkasse with a box full of small change. Was told that their normal Geldautomat has a function to accept them into your account and the assistant kindly showed me how to do it.

My pharmacy won't take them at all any more, just tell you to take them home and put in the Restmüll.

Sannerl wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 1:39 pm Sleeping Squirrels in their nest on someone's window ledge

Lovely!

(Kleinkläranlage are small bio water treatment plants. Ours has 5 different chambers.) Ours came with the house that was built in 1997. On enquiring about another issue re. its pump, I was told we should have a contract for yearly inspection and maintenance. (Not with this company, so they weren't t...

Looks horribly gynocological.
At least the chickens are dead . .

I find the knockoff brands don’t do the job and use only the Meister Proper, the original, and they cost more of course. But I use them sparingly anyway. Thanks, I'll try them. It won't break the bank! The scuffs aren't big and am trying to avoid repainting the whole stairwell wall which is high, a...

I've often read comments singing the praises of Magic Erasers, and it seems that Schmutzradierer are the equivalent here. So I bought a pack from Rossmann yesterday, Domol brand. Just tried them out with high hopes on various scuffs on walls from moving furniture around, and marks on light coloured ...

Now that's interesting fro, thanks! I have both German and UK state pensions but was not aware of the info in the third point. I had got to the stage of assuming that I'd have to continue with my Kk contributions, expensive, as in your first paragraph. I believe however that then you're still entitl...

Sounds great! Did you actually achieve that authentic banger taste and texture? I wouldn't go to your lengths to make actual sausages but I dismantle German sousages sometimes to make sausage rolls, mixing up the meat with breadcrumbs and a random onion/spice/herb mixture rolled up in flaky pastry. ...

Yes, choirs are great! I sing with my local choir and a smaller group and probably have sung going on for two hundred songs of all styles, all in the alto part. Got good at spotting archaic usages of the genitive in old songs. OH and I have long-service 'medals' !

Thanks, just investigating pros and cons at the moment!

Am weighing up the possibilites of moving to Ireland. As an Irish/UK citizen and in receipt of a German state pension this should not be a problem under EU law. I should be entitled to a Medical Card there because of reciprocal arrangements. (Optional to take out private if wanted.) From krankenkass...

I have no time for people who play games like this. The time for negotiating is before signing a contract. So unless you're needing cash in hand urgently, why accept it at a loss? It doesn't make sense to my very unsophisticated financial brain.

"Not to worry, dogs don't. They pee anywhere."
Possibly my mum's invention.
Sometimes she'd top it with "..... said the old woman as she peed in the ocean."

Sorry to hear that FrauFruit. I had a colonoscopy a few years ago, recommended cos dad died of bowel cancer, and the actual procedure was totally fine as they knocked me out briefly. But the drink prep was horrendous, 4 litres of that disgusting weird tasting solution throughout the night. I am not ...

Catching up with WILTY. (Would I lie to you?) Luckily there are many, many joyful episodes.