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England, United Kingdom
Joined September 2026
It’s getting dark early, but we have reached the season where putting pastry on your dinner counts as looking after yourself. What’s your cheap, comforting winter meal? Recipe welcome. ‘Go to my mum’s’ requires an invitation. #Winter #Cooking
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What’s something you spent money on that made you think, “Why did I put up with that for so long?” A decent pillow. Getting the tooth fixed. Replacing the frying pan everything stuck to. Give us the purchase and the difference it made. Someone here is still putting up with it.
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You bought the good sweets for trick-or-treaters. You’ve eaten the good sweets. Do you buy more good sweets or accept that the next batch needs to be less appealing? #Halloween #Shopping
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Football fans, Gamers, and people in that whole Venn diagram… Football Manager 27 is free to play on PC/Mac until 6pm on 3 November. £0 to discover you also can’t solve your club’s problems. #FM27 #FootballManager27 footballmanager.com/fm27
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You spend years ignoring the gherkin in your burger. Suddenly, it’s got a fiscal policy. Are you taking yours out or asking for extra? #Budget2026 #Budget
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If tomorrow’s Budget could cut just ONE of your bills, which gets your vote? What’s the one you dread opening? #Budget
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£220 million extra for pothole repairs in England. You already know which one you’d spend it on. You swear at it every morning. Where is it—and has it earned a nickname yet? Time to give it some official recognition: Report a #pothole - GOV.UK #Motoring #UK
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Storm Austen is heading our way. And apparently, it could become what's known as a weather bomb. 💣 Britain really does struggle to have a normal Thursday. What's the wildest storm you've ever experienced?
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No driveway? Charging an electric car at home just got a little easier. New rules in England remove the planning-permission requirement for qualifying pavement cable channels. Council permission still matters. What would make going electric practical for you? #EV #ElectricCars
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Your flight is £40 cheaper if you leave at 5.40am. That’s £40 towards lunch somewhere sunny. You’re suddenly describing 2am as ‘an early start’ rather than “the middle of the night”. What holiday saving are you ridiculously proud of? #Travel #Airlines
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Hamptons research found just over half of former renters who bought in September paid more on their #mortgage than their old rent. Still, it’s yours. You can paint the walls. Put up shelves. And discover what a boiler costs. What would you tell someone getting their first keys?
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Good news: your train ticket doesn’t have to include someone else’s playlist. Passengers who refuse to stop playing loud music can now be fined up to £1,000. What other small courtesy makes your journey better? #Travel #Bus #Train
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UK people: you’ve been put in charge of improving the Sunday roast. You can add one thing that isn’t traditionally there. This is your opportunity to achieve greatness or upset your entire family. What are you adding? #Sunday #Roast
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Same bowls. Hidden labels. No points for a tasty font. We blind-tested branded and supermarket soups. What’s your best 'the cheap one is actually better' discovery? #Shopping #Food #TasteTest
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Someone donated a collection of rare banknotes to an Edinburgh charity shop. They’ve just sold for £85,860. I usually end up with three dog-eared paperbacks and a ceramic harlequin. What’s your greatest charity-shop discovery?
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Airport drop-off charges are being reviewed. Heathrow currently charges £7 to enter its terminal drop-off zones. “Giving your mum a lift to the airport? That’ll be £7.” Airport or hospital: what’s the most you’ve paid just to drop someone off? #travel #heathrow #hospital
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UK drivers: Which? Magazine has found that one car insurance quote cost £368 extra to pay monthly. “Can’t afford it all at once? That’ll cost you.” What’s the priciest 'convenience' fee you’ve paid—and convenient for whom? #Motoring #Payments #carinsurance
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Different box. Same medicine? Matching full product licence (PL) numbers mean the same licensed medicine—even under different brands. Compare price per tablet. Ask a pharmacist if unsure. Do you pay extra for a familiar name? #Money #Medicines #Drugs
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UK people…what was your first car, and what was wrong with it? You remember its registration and where to hit the dashboard. Your insurance renewal date? Not a clue. Name the car. Tell us its most unreasonable demand. #FirstCar #CarInsurance
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'Send me a photo so I know it’s you.' She thought she’d checked. The photo looked like her friend. She sent the money. It was a #scam. AI is making 'seeing is believing' impossible. If a friend messaged asking for emergency money, how would you check it was really them? #AI
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