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I saved over £25 on an order on the clothes shop:
I saved £30 on the Morrisons shop
http://www.groceries.morrisons.com
vouc7d14b33 this code may work for others, too.
Order over £70, pay £1.50 evening delivery and save £8.50 instead plus any grocery deals, too.
FRESHSTART20 is the 20% discount code on eBay ending on the 25th of February 2026. Minimum spend £10 and maximum discount £75.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/e/coupon-offers/freshstart20-shop-all
IF AT FIRST, YOU DON’T SUCCEED!
My DIY poem got a video overview thanks to notebookLM.google.com and this is on YouTube:
Mr Denis Martindale YouTube Video link
Filename
The_High_Cost_of_Winging_It.mp4
The monthly British Gas bill showed me the difference between a Winter bill and a Winter bill if using heating every day for January and February. I submitted meter readings over the phone on 0800 072 8625 by keying in the ACCOUNT NUMBER and reading day, night, then the gas reading. The process is useful as it tells me my previous readings, too.
This time, the numbers increase,d so I must pay £160 instead of £140 for last month’s bill. Reading 1, 422, reading 2, 150, gas, 2 units. The standing charges are about £25 a month.
The website is:
http://www.britishgas.co.uk and there’s an extra discount offer if we sign up to become entitled to the company’s membership deals. Savings on repair quotes and annual charges for services such as electrics and appliance coverage for repairs. The Home Service is already on a monthly £1 or so but that will increase at the end of the year.
The latest tariffs are fixed for 1 or 2 years at an increase of loadsa money above my fixed tariff with 14 months to go. These are hardly realistic bargains if switching from about £1300 to about £1600…
If I switched to another Tariff based on these figures I wouldn’t need to pay an exit fee for electricity or for gas services. Otherwise, switching to a different Utility company isn’t so appealing.
As I switched 8 months ago, I knew I would start to make savings and within months British Gas increased their Tariff charges.
I got a £200 Government Winter allowance and this will pay part of the increased bills for the 6 months and especially when needing to heat just 1 room for my continued well-being.
Lucky me.
February savings continued.
Morrisons and Ocado offered some discounts. I bought items in bulk to restock and saved a total of £60.
The IrfanView program can edit a large 1140xN image. It can crop the image to the picture in the frame. It can resize that and increase the pixel resolution to 1200 instead. It generates a new full-screen, high-quality PNG image without the original background. If grown-ups can, then children can learn, too. The computer device can be searched to find different image extensions, but some computer or Android programs can HIDE computer drive folders. So, there are still security and monitoring issues to block or overcome as necessary. Google Photos or OneDrive storage of files and images are two more methods to hide access. Government laws may be used to check such content even before parents or guardians try to.
Here is an Etsy website Supergirl poster that has been resized to the 1920×1080 pixel screen size. Other shopping website image URLs can be edited to even larger image sizes, and images.google.com also does this, so if grown-ups can do this, then so can children. This image is a jpg yet some web browsers offer us the png or webp images to save instead. So these extra options may not be recognised by adults who are more accustomed to the jpg extension type.
Another feature to consider is if a child uses a foreign language or a translation service to prevent a parent or guardian from knowing what’s being communicated. There are ways to extract the foreign languages in photos or to transcribe content. It’s a matter of who is really who when online and if they use temporary or fake name aliases to send emails and email attachments.
By the way, some email accounts can forward the incoming emails if that’s considered a necessary protection option. The email accounts can be set up to reply to more than one account. Such as Gmail forwarding to a different account such as a Yahoo account.
Remember that some emails don’t appear in the Inbox but in a Spam or Bulk email folder.
That means the emails get through without getting deleted, or end up in the Trash, Junk, or Delete folders.
If further investigation is required, check a browser’s HISTORY folder listing or Temporary folder for the browser’s Internet cache. Filenames may have no extensions, like html, jpg, or mp4 files. There are Cache View programs and photo editors, such as IrfanView to view a folder and search its files, if called f_ names instead of their true names.
Take a very serious look at the monitoring options that offer people an invasion of privacy, such as photo surveillance and keylogging, for several Internet website services.
Big Brother, Big Mother, Big Father, Big Sister?
Query if using a trustworthy VPN service or privacy web browser, see Google for the latest options and YouTube tutorials or Government laws… or if to block certain websites… or limit the time spent online… or a parent or a guardian to accompany the child or children when online?
I extended my Sky Essentials package to record content on the Sky+ Planner. I could continue to use the time shift feature and Catch Up TV channel downloads in HD or SD quality. The £5 discount for the year leads to a saving of £60.
I received a Sky callback and asked about Sky remote controls. They are now telling me they have no remaining stock. I bought 4 on eBay for less than £18. The packages contained a Sky remote manual with different processes that help control our TV, as listed by the manufacturer.
There are variations for the model numbers of the remote controls, such as versions 8, 9 and 10. I ordered the v9 models. Model URC1652-20R00 for the Sky+ set-top box Rev 9R.
The previous post about the 990 code helps to learn existing codes, such as 2427 for the Hisense 4K Smart TV.
Press the TV key, then hold the Select and red keys for 2 seconds, to show the 2 flashing remote control lights.
Then press 990, then press the 1, followed by 2, 3 and 4 to see the zero flash light or count the flash lights.The Sky remote manual must be kept safe and available for future settings to test.
http://www.ebay.co.uk or http://www.ebay.ie
http://www.picclick.co.uk or http://www.grelly.ukExtra Hisense Smart 4K TV codes:
Programming Your Remote Control
Just follow these instructions to get your TV and Sky box working together.For Standard Remote Controls
Step 1: With your TV and Sky box turned on, press the “TV” button on your Sky remote.
Step 2: Press the red button and select button together for 2 seconds and release. The red button on your Sky remote should blink twice.
Step 3: Enter the digits for your TV manufacturer and press “Select”. The red light should blink twice.
Step 4: Press the TV button again and try turning the volume up and down – if it works, then you’ve completed this process.
If a code doesn’t work or is not recognised, the red button will flash once. Just try again with another code or use the four-digit codes below.Hisense: 0584, 0065, 1784, 2016 no…?
Hisense 0973 using tv key standby key about 14 times…
Hisense 0473 using several TV key standby key times…
Here’s a web page with FAQs:
translation 1:
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For the end of January 2026, I got a Sky email about that £10 offer ending. I phoned Sky to see what I could get and extended the £10 offer for another year, saving £60 in the process. I decided to disconnect the Sky+ box and take it upstairs instead and then started recording TV shows and downloaded a few HD and SD TV shows. The Sky Essentials package helps me to use the time shift feature for rewind and fast forward and pause actions to work.
I got NOW TV subscriptions for 6 months and 12 months for £4 each. I’m paying £8 instead of £20…
So with the £10 and the £8 I’m better off than paying about £32 to Sky.
It’s not that I’m getting an identical set of TV channels that counts as much as saving £100 in the first 6 months.
I got a Netgem Netbox for £5 including delivery. It worked and I updated the software and got the settings and channels working.
I saved £25 on another Morrisons Groceries £80 order here:
Beyond the introduction of new UK laws, there may come a time when we really need every penny-pinching pound we save to pay unexpected bills and unexpected increased bills.
Some local Council rules may change our finances and that’s why we need YouTube video updates to learn extra details. There will be extra changes to DWP payments and these can be very complicated in how to resolve any setbacks.
It may be necessary to use credit cards or PayPal credit to spread out any such payments. Or to budget more forcefully to increase our savings for future problems. Maybe that Summer Holiday isn’t such a good idea after all…
