My washing machine needs a couple of new parts amounting to around £130 and its £12 years old so we've decided to invest in a new one.

Anyone got got any recommendations?

Ideally id have a Miele but my budget is circa £400 !!!

Mrs O xx

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I am at the end of my tether and seriously thinking about whether to carry on with this charade, 24 years down the line and I feel like the hired f-ing help, get moaned at when things aren't done or tidy or whatever and I think (and often say), I work full time and do everything. What I also want to...

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I rent my flat and today had a letter from my LL reminding me that smoking is against the terms of my lease. I know other people have had the same letter.
I do not smoke but do let a couple of close friends smoke in the flat. I checked out...

I am looking for some advice regarding a tenancy that my son has just signed up for.

The inventory clearly states that there is a freezer in the house, which has turned out not to be the case. There is one small fridge and one large fridge.

The other housemates met up with...

I pick five letters, say Y A A S B

The next person has to make a sentence using just the five letters

You Are A Silly Billy

then leave your five letters

W A F S A

Went for a drive into the countryside this evening and driving back down a country lane we saw a cat it was still alive so my friend put it onto a plastic bag which is all we had in the boot and we phoned the Blue Cross animal hospital who asked us to take it to the emergency surgery, the cat was crying...

Not my week, since last Sunday, my son's car broke down, it's just been fixed, with a new water pump.

Then my dyson cylinder hoover motor went, its only 2 years old, but luckily covered for 5 years, the engineer inspected it but the new motor will not be back until 9th May!
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My Sony Vaio gave up last week. I manage to transfer most folders to an external hard drive just before it went dead but sadly some got left behind It won't even switch on (power light but no Windows start-up) so is it still possible for these files to be recovered somehow somewhere?
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But does it do the hoovering ?