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Free: Pair of Flippers, size 6-7 (Bishopston BS7) 17h - Be festival ready with this stylish pair of flippers, size 40-41, 6-7.

Free: Wet suit for teenager. Size 3XL; Age: 16 (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 1d - C-skins wet suit. Label says size 3XL; Age: 16

Free: Enormous nylon carrying sack (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 10d - You know those blue nylon bags you get from Ikea? Well, this is like one of them, but much bigger. And dirtier. It must be around two cubic metres. Suitable for up to 1000 kg weight allegedly.

Free: Polycom SoundStation Analogue Conference telephone (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 18d - Recreate the mind crushing tedium of endless pointless conference calls in the comfort of your own home with this Polycom SoundStation analogue conference telephone from circa 2001. As it's analogue, you will require an old-skool PBX or PSTN landline.

Free: Amazon Echo Dot, 3rd generation, with power supply (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 18d - Beam your conversations into the heart of a faceless, tax-dodging American corporation with this handy Amazon Echo Dot, 3rd generation, with power supply. Unwanted gift.

Free: Wall mounted cabinet in white painted wood with glass doors (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 30d - Contains two glass shelves. Overall dimensions 60 cm wide, 76 cm tall and 20 cm deep Suitable for displaying ironic communist tat (not included).

Free: 15mm diameter foam pipe lagging: 5 pieces of 1m length (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 37d - Beat those winter freezes that we don't have anymore. Suits 15mm diameter pipes.

Free: HP Deskjet 990cxi double-sided inkjet printer - no ink (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 44d - A double-sided printer from the days when printers just printed, so no scanning, faxing, life coaching etc. On the plus side, with the appropriate paper, you can print onto T-shirts, fabric etc. You'll need to source some ink for it. HP cartridges 45 (black) and 78 (colour).

Free: Shed wood (wood from a shed, not wood to make a shed) (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 44d - Just taken delivery of a shed? Congratulations! Short-cut years of accumulating offcuts of construction timber and unused shelving by taking mine off my hands. You won't regret it!

Free: Fishing shelter (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 44d - Ideal for a brief respite from being sandblasted on British beaches whilst experiencing our climate-changed weather.

Free: 10 Ikea minty-green side plates (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 44d - Recreate the silent stifling embarrassment of a 1970s buffet with these strangely coloured Ikea side plates. Quantity 10, 21 cm diameter

Free: 2kg of charcoal briquettes (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 44d - Have an ill-conceived barbeque at a local site of scientific interest, foolishly start a fire and wipe out the habitat for dozens of endangered species with this handy bag of charcoal briquettes.

Free: Minimalist floor-standing clothes airer (Bishopston BS7) Expired 44d - Suits someone who wishes to dry clothes. Plastic covered steel, accessorised with vintage bootlaces. 54 cm wide, 127 cm tall

Free: 8 issues of Grand Design magazine from 2022 (Bishopston BS7) Expired 45d - 8 issues of Grand Design magazine from Nov 2021 to Dec 2022 Dream on.

Free: Dimplex Model DY78 2800-3000W Electric convector heater (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 72d - Push your electricity consumption to new heights with this Dimplex Model DY78 2800-3000W Electric convector heater Instruction manual:

Free: Heavyweight canvas stripey blind, cream & dark blue stripes (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 88d - Heavyweight canvas stripey blind, cream and dark blue stripes, 95 cm wide, 170 cm drop The bottom end is a little marked. One could either live with it, wash it or chop it off and use on a window with a shorter drop.

Free: Replacement car aerial, new in box, 5 mm screw, 40 cm length (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 95d

Free: DMM Tom Cat kids sit harness (Bishopston BS7) Expired 120d - Good condition, little use - but it's around 12 years old. Your judgement call on what you think it's suitable for and how much to trust it.

Free: Desktop PC - no operating system - suit enthusiast (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 122d - Zoomstorm 7876 Desktop PC Intel Core i3 CPU 8 GB RAM 500 GB hard drive (old skool flying rust - not SSD) 250 W PSU DVD drive *No operating system*. Install your own version of Windo$e, Linux etc. No keyboard, mouse, cables, monitor etc

Free: Small hairdryer (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 128d - Braun Silencio 1000 Hairdryer in working order. You don't see many of these about these days.

Free: Small selection of out-of-date beers, ciders and lagers (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 149d - Does booze go off? Here's a chance to conduct your own research. A small selection of dusty beers, ciders and lagers from the furthest reaches of my drinks cabinet. Expiry dates range from 2020 to 2023.

Free: 20" iMac, 2008, with graphics card fault for spares/repair (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 150d - 20 inch iMac, manufactured 2008 OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 3GB memory Graphics ATI radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB The red line down the left of the display indicates a graphics card fault, though it is in usable condition. Includes dodgy Apple keyboard

Free: Double roman roof tiles, clay and modern (Bishopston BS7) Expired 261d - Small quantity of double Roman roofing tiles. Approx 14 modern/cement ones, and 7 clay.

Free: Approx 4 years worth of Guardian Feast magazines (Bishopston BS7) Expired 268d - Perhaps your hit rate will be higher than mine in actually making something from them

Free: Books: Analog & Switching Circuit Design, Signals & Systems (Bishopston BS7) Expired 275d - Here's the latest from my selection of bone-crushingly dry, niche, unloved and unread electronic engineering textbooks from the 1980s Analog and Switching Circuit Design by J Watson Rather than me attempt to summarise the contents, the entire book is available online: Signals and Systems by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky with Ian T. Young Also available online at: Will split if understandably you don't have the stomach for both of them

Free: 11 square metres of allotment-grade carpet (Bishopston BS7) Expired 277d - Approx 11 square metres of allotment-grade carpet, handily cut in approx 1.5 m wide strips. Carpet is high-end wool, in fashionable beige. Free: Selection of out of date foodstuffs (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 281d - Includes bran flakes, wholemeal bread flour, red lentils, cous-cous, flax-seeds, pear and apple spread, and other ingredients from meals that remained forever in the conceptual phase. Some items (for example the bran flakes) are only just out-of-date. The mince-meat more so, but that lasts for ages, right?

Free: High-end (in 2010) Tower PC, no hard-drives, for enthusiast (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 282d - This is a PC I built for myself in 2010, that I got 10 years or so of use from Principal components: ASUS M4A77TD PRO 770 Socket AM3 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard AMD Phenom X3 705E 2.5GHz Socket AM3 6MB Processor LG CH08LS10 Super Multi Blu-Ray Reader & DVD±RW with LightScribe SATA Black Sapphire ATI HD4670 Ultimate 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E HDMI Fanless Zalman Z7 ATX Mid Tower PC Case 12 GB RAM CPU-ID report: No hard-drives, hence no operating system Suitable only for computer hobbyists/enthusiasts/hackers

Free: Emagic Logic Audio (DAW) tutorial books from early 2000s (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 286d - Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio By Stephen Bennett, Second Edition 2002 Logic Audio Workshop by Dave Bellingham 2003 Suitable only for users of Logic Audio DAW from that era. Or possibly someone with a woodburner.

Free: Vintage PCMCIA fax/modem card (Bishopston BS7) Gifted 296d - Send faxs effortlessly from your laptop or connect to the internet at a blazing speed of 28,800 with this Sportster US-Robotics PCMCIA card Requires a laptop with a PCMCIA slot and a landline.