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took my 3 year old to the local garden centre. they have a soft play area (quite small) where adults can have a coffee while kids play. nice place to take the little one on the weekend. anyway, when i get there its packed and they tell me my kid is the last one they will let in for “health and safety ” reasons. note - the soft play is a bit removed from the cafe where you pay and anyone can just kind of walk in (without paying). they have signa up telling people to pay the £3 on the door. anyway we go in and they decide to do a check of who has actually paid and see if anyone shouldn't be there. of the 6 families there, only 3 had paid. the woman told them and not one of the freeloading families (one with 3 adults and 6 kids using the soft play) left. they all just sat there sipping their coffees and grinning at getting away with it. i asked the woman if she was going to do anything about it and she said that t

I bought the flat in 2019 at the peak of London flat prices and spent £40k renovating it. It’s an amazing area, quiet, communal gardens and two garages with a service charge of £3.5k pa and share of freehold. It’s only been on the market a week or so but I thought there would be a lot more interest…. TLDR; is my flat appropriately priced? https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/171827285 submitted by /u/GW795 to r/HousingUK [link] [comments]

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Just watched a clip from 1986 talking about contactless bank cards. As a kid, it was one of my favourite TV programs. Come on BBC, instead of another season of Shetland, give some future insight! submitted by /u/Key-Raspberry-7610 to r/AskUK [link] [comments]

It has been frustrating being an Italian rugby fan. Years of whitewashes, we no real chance of a win in sight. We had our moments of glory, like our first (and only) win against SA in 2016, that happened during a huge dip in Bokke’s form. Every time we won against Scotland, once against Ireland, Wales, a couple with France, almost everyone labelled us “lucky”. It seemed like all the people outside Italia thought that our opponents somehow let us win, that they didn’t try enough, that they were lucklustre or had so many injuries. It was never about us being better, it was about the others being worse, on low form, they had to be so ashamed of losing against such a bad team. I can see that in the last 4 years things started to change, but somehow that narrative still leaks on comments here and there. Yesterday Italia has won against Scotland, because every Italian player was better than its Scottis

My friend posted a photo of me and her where she photoshopped me to be skinnier (left is original, right is what she posted) and I ended the friendship. I’m not active on social media, so I only found out months after she already posted it when I happened to scroll through her old posts. My friendship with this person was already pretty rocky, so this was just the final straw. She knows that I struggled with an eating disorder from ages 12 to 21, and that my primary insecurity was my stomach. I only overcame my body dysmorphia in the last two years. She

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What on earth is attacking my poor bottle of Vimto? Have seen a few things on the countertop left like this, but the potatoes and bananas are seemingly unscathed O_O submitted by /u/sajiica to r/CasualUK [link] [comments]

Obligatory, I’m from the USA. I grew up in the Birmingham, AL metro area in a town that gets water from the city. Several times a year during my entire childhood, water from the tap was various shades of tan. Even in places without such issues, many people here are wary of fluoride which is included in ~70% of the population’s tap water. Buying cases of bottled water, not only for emergencies but to drink daily, is common. Today, someone chastised me for drinking unfiltered tap water. I’m visiting England later this year. I’ve read about the old system for hot water there. I looked at stats online and it says 99% of communities have compliance with safety standards in the UK. That number is 90% in the USA. Even that 90% buys huge amounts of bottled water. Is it common there to buy water from a store when you have water at home? Edit: Y’all are awesome. I love the region-specific recommendations. &