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French Silver or Silver Plate Marks ? Help Needed

Hello, Does anyone know if these marks are for french silver or silver plate as i am struggling to find any reference. The mark on the left seems to be some kind of fleur de lys with the letters 'Ste' and 'A' and the other mark it think is 'Argenta' ...

Iain Duncan Smith announces another welfare shake up, including replacement of ATOS

Later on today Iain Duncan Smith will announce that he is planning a massive shake-up of the welfare system which will see the Department of Work and Pensions end its controversial partnership with Atos, a private company that managed to make ‘fit fo...

Elf and safety gone mad?

Or just stupidity/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511935/Water-company-installs-life-ring-stream-just-INCHES-deep-health-safety-review.html

Just a quick reminder for you lovely peeps.........................

that we are coming soon to the festive period and your doctors and chemists will be closed so any of you that get repeat prescriptions get them in soon to make sure you have enough medication to cover you over the festive period.

Oh dear... but it did make me smile

Some poor soul has listed their rather pretty bowl as a Bowel. Awfully easily found as there aren't that many of them in the Pottery and Glass Section Only up for the next few hours and I'm not diminishing the seller. It's the sort of mistake I could...

Beer.

This morning I was in luck and was able to buy two boxes of "JOHN SMITH'S BITTER" cheap at my Local Shop. I placed the boxes on the front seat and headed back home. I stopped at a Petrol Court, where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in a short skirt was f...

News just in

A 67 year old couple have been arrested in London for keeping 3 women locked up as slaves for 30 years.The couple have now been bailed to appear in court in either January or February.I'll bet they have fled the country long before they are due in co...

A Good Snipe

It says i have 4000 posts.. so i will say Snipe.

Corruption on ebay

Simply this site is corrupt... the majority of people who use it are genuine, but can easily be duped by carefully worded sentencing that implies that the seller is auctioning a potentially sought after item including a picture or picture's added tha...

ebay sponsors festive entertainment

I suppose it must be deemed more cost-effective to sponsor a TV channel from last week until Xmas or so and get a quick advert in at the beginning and end of every advertising break, rather than just having an occasional longer advert. I would have t...

Another interface improvement: not!

When viewing an item you scroll about one-third down and some kind of div appears at the top of the screen with some useless repeated information in it. Is there a way to block this (other than disabling javascript). Possibly some people think this i...

Did you know ..... Strange facts.

Feel free to add your own gems. There are seven classifications of snowflakes: plates, stellar crystals, columns, needles, spatical dendrites, capped columns and irregular forms. You didn't know that, did you? Cheers,Steve

SNOW

is merlin around? I have a bone to pick

Ebay so slow,went to the dogs on saturday night,have a bone to pick with merlin!!

Question - should I root my phone?

I have a HTC desire and the memory is virtually full because of all the installed apps which I cannot tranfer onto the SD card. If I "root" my phone, will I lose any data from the diary or contact list.? Will "rooting" enable me to transfer apps to t...

My new song "Blumen von der Tanke" (Flowers from the gas station)

If there is someone who is interested in music or makes music himself, can you please listen to my song and tell me if you like it? Please give me positive and negative feedback! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=859611

My Friend is a barber... and

My friend is a Hairdresser, and one day I was at his Shop waiting for the old proverbial haicut when.... this man poked his head into his barbershop and asked, 'How long before I can get a haircut?My friend looked around his shop full of customers an...

Shaun Ryder?

Have you watched the first programme? No? Me neither! When I saw the (umpteen) trailers for the programme it made me determined not to watch it because the subject matter was bad enough but the demenour of the "presenter" was a definite no-no. It see...

Anybody understand pensions and the like?

A bloke I know has a dilema. What we are trying to work out is how old would you have to be to make it a viable proposition to have a works pension as opposed to saving the same amount of cash in a high interest savings account.

The design of modern cars?

Why are so many modern cars designed with high bonnets, high door "waists" and a high rear parcel shelf? If you sat in the drivers seat and marked out the "invisible" area around the car it would be quite large. The drivers don't seem to be able to j...

Is there a way to alter certain prefs?

If you type "Laptop" into the search box and wait for the results page to load and take a peep down the left hand side below the price option you will see the sub-headings "Format" and "Item location." In the latter, mine is defaulted at "On eBay UK....

Monetary aid to the Philippines

After watching a DEC request on tv last night, I am of the opinion that whilst it is wonderful that countries, such as the UK come to the aid of a country that is suffering catastrophic disaster such as the Philippines....I am also of the opinion tha...

Advise please.

Hi all, sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place but no idea where I should. I was made aware about an item being auctioned by a seller, it is a lapel pin badge with a pic in it, military type. I designed it and only one person is allowed to sell...

Roger Daltrey

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10455384/Roger-Daltrey-I-will-never-forgive-Labour-for-their-immigration-policies.html

Auction list??

I used to have a programme created by a Round Table member [Keith?] which made a sound when someone bid on one of my listings. I have changed my PC to a laptop now and, as I stopped listings some time ago, didn't transfer the programme.I am now listi...

Birthdays

How do people know others birthdays???. Ermm?.

Any gas/energy experts out there able to help

I am looking for a little bit of advice regarding my heating. Would it be cheaper for me to use the gas fired central heating to heat the house (the house is open plan downstairs) - or to leave the heating off and just use the gas fire in the lounge ...

OT - Poppies and Poppyfields

Off topic but certainly the right day to do it! Did you buy a Poppy this year? To whose memory do you dedicate it? Mine to my Grandfather - KIA WWI, My father - severely wounded WWII, and all the lads in Ireland who wereresponsible for defusing IED's...

New Government crackdown on Teddy Bears !

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced it is launching a campaign to clamp down on benefit fraud by stuffed toys after reports a supposedly disabled teddy bear has been seen openly working for the BBC on national television. In an underco...

What Do You Think..

Mother who won £700,000 payout when NHS failed to detect spina bifida in her unborn baby faces having to sell home after being ordered to return half the money when he diedDeborah Mackay, 33, won landmark legal case for her son CalumMother used the c...