Maybe we could combine the two! 
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Could someone please give me a breaker in 
UK Special Offers, Top Sale Picks and DOTD? 
Thank you @PKH 
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Good Morning (or what ever time of day it is where ever you are) How are you all ? 
Morning @Latex73! 
Getting over a cold but other than that Iâm good thanks. Enjoying a croissant and a cup of tea in the conservatory while we still have a bit of sun 
How are you?
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Good thanks been out off roading today just arrived back home now having a coffee and a chill ! 
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Husband isnât in a good way. Yesterday, he found out his workplace has been lying to him and everyone in his team for 9 months. In person, to their face lies. No interpretation issues, they knew what they were doing. Way to pull the rug out from under a whole team. 
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Sorry to hear that, itâs so annoying. I asked specific questions to administrators in front of all my work colleagues, and we were given assurances that like your husbandâs case, couldnât be misinterpreted. Four days later they closed us down with no notice. But they left that to our management, as they didnây have the guts to do it themselves and be called out on their blatant lies.
Well, this time wasnât about redundancy, but was about certain other assurances that were given. Then yesterday, the director let it slip that one of them wasnât true, realised, tried to cover, but my husband went in for the kill and had it eventually confirmed they were all lies, in front of a number of the team. You can guess how well that went down. All good will went out of the window right then.
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I am breaking a promise to myself here. after I received some bad comments last week I was no longer going to post anything but felt so strongly I had to say I hope everything turns out ok @KinkyMira and iâm sorry hubby going through things. I think we can all say we are thinking o you all.
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@KinkyMira Sorry to hear that, I know the feeling happened to me we all knew the business was in trouble but was constantly told every is fine its being dealt with. Then one afternoon we were all called into the office and told to go home we were even told everything will return to normal soon, such a lie they lost millions we didnât even get our wages even though they said its all in hand.
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Glad to hear from you both @steve19 and @teacake and thanks for your thoughts and wishes.
Husband is quite chipper this morning and updating his CV. On work time. He seems in a decent mood today, but determined to get out I think.
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I promised a few weeks ago Iâd write up how we solve an Only Connect wall. This is one from last week.
[Older] [Brabin] [Genius] [Khan]
[Freedom] [Burgen] [Burnham] [Jet]
[Faith] [Street] [Cage] [Outside]
[Kingsmill] [Mothers Pride] [Hovis] [Prize]
So, the first thing that jumps out is Kingsmill, Mothers Pride and Hovis being bread brands. But this is Only Connect, so if all 3 were in the same group, they wouldnât be in a row. So we are looking for 2 more bread brands, and the ones that jumped out were Burgen and Genius. It also means that either Kingsmill, Mothers Pride or Hovis belongs in a different group.
Next, the fighters jumped out. Freedom, Jet, Cage, Prize and Street can all have âFighterâ after them. So one of those belongs elsewhere.
We spotted Freedom and Faith were George Michael songs, but got distracted by looking for a word one (eg, change a letter, add a letter etc) when my husband shouted out âOh, er Mayors. Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Sadiq Khan andâŚâ searching for another one. I was no help here. âOh, Andy Streetâ. A quick whip round the rest showed there were no other mayors. So that took Street out of the fighter category, leaving four there.
So, what we had left was:
[Older] [Genius] [Burgen] [Faith]
[Outside] [Kingsmill] [Mothers Pride] [Hovis]
We knew there were breads. But were the others George Michael songs? After all, we had already ruled out the fifth song (Freedom). As Victoria said on the show, the key here was knowing that Mothers Pride was a George Michael song, thereby being the one to drop from the three breads.
So, we got Genius, Burgen, Kingsmill and Hovis as the bread brands and we assumed (and were correct) in the others being George Michael songs.
We did have a few other leads that lead nowhere (like Cage suggesting Nicholas, Jet suggesting Gladiators and the like), but a quick check around the other clues meant we quickly ruled them out.
Good luck if you try a wall having read this!
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Really sorry about whatever is going on with your husbandâs work. There seems to be a lot of it about at the moment, my OH is going through something similar at the moment 
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On the cheerier topic, I love Only Connect. They used to have all the walls online for people to play at home but they seem to have been removed. However, if anyone fancies a go at playing one this site has walls and connections created by other people to have a go at. You can choose how difficult a level you want to try so can start with some easy ones and theyâre all rated by quality. Pick high quality and whatever difficulty you want to try and have a go using @KinkyMira 's method (same way I do them too).
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Haha thanks @WillC! Got to love a bit of Marvel
She is doing so well and weâre seeing so much character - sheâs so funny and affectionate.
Still scared of a lot, but her confidence is building nicely 
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Yes, had that with a couple of previous rescue dogs, itâs so rewarding to see their confidence and trust improve.
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She looks to have made herself very much at home - lovely to see!
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Just doing a bit of catch up and read your post. Itâs the modern style of management which is killing off any kind of trust from its employees I have also been in this situation and was fortunate enough to be able to move on elsewhere. There have only been two sets of management in my working life that I could and did trust. One was 40 years ago and then the last company I worked for but they were sold off and the new management didnât meet the grade. Iâm now retired 
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