Dodging and navigating EE and Virgin broadband offers Fun times… As a reward for years of loyally, Virgin decided it was time take back the welcome mat and increase my monthly bill… by about 35% to £165 a month. Two minutes later I switched to EE. Normally I’d haggle with Virgin, but they are sods […]
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Predictions and requests: If you play Palia and find this post useful, please do show your thanks by voting on my plot (ackadia). Ta. This is not so much insider knowledge and understanding how it works, which is pretty much more of the same, with bells on. I fully expect the next content upgrade to
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Palia cooking parties If you play Palia and find this post useful, please do show your thanks by voting on my plot (ackadia). Ta. Full disclosure: I’ve not held a big event – yet – but we do have regular smaller ones every week, sometimes a few times a week. One person in our community
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Palia intro If you play Palia and find this post useful, please do show your thanks by voting on my plot (ackadia). Ta. This is a work in progress as I have only been playing a few weeks (12 weeks by Xmas 2025) and also, being beta, the game is still evolving, so things get
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Chapter 1: The crew and friends To be different, I will begin my story at the middle of my life. If this pleases my readers they may even wish to know how it began, and that would please me quite a lot. It was 1940 and our country was at war with Germany. I
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That’s How It Was, by Sheila White A heart warming story of a great love that blossomed during the difficult times of the last war. Sheila (my gran) met her husband to be, Chalky, on a dull day, a day that changed her life. This is a remarkable account of two people’s lives with all
Wacom One: no display signal “No signal. Press the OSB button to switch the input source” Sorting this issue was a complete pain in the arse – and it was needlessly so! I’ve worked in IT since the early 80s, building PCs using barely legible instructions translated from Chinese to Tiawanese to English by people
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Rogue Trader survival guide: Grim Darkness [This is a work in progess] Like all games of this type, after the first playthough or two it’s so easy it’s tedious, even on harder sitting. Grim Darkness raises the stakes as one misclick, one misjudgement, one bad roll, one bug can ruin your day. The guide assumes
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