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Free: Recipe books... have one or take them all (Oldfield Park) Gifted A bunch of lightly used recipe books that have just sat around getting dusty for years. Can you use one or all of them? If so, come and get the ones you’re after in first come, first served fashion. It just pick them all up in a bundle.

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Free: Superking patterned duvet cover (Oldfield Park) Gifted Bedding from a pet-free, smoke-free house. Washed, tear-free, stain-free. This is a dual-patterned Superking duvet cover from Dreams with a button-up side.

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13d

Free: Superking duvet cover, stripy beige (Oldfield Park) Gifted Bedding from a pet-free, smoke-free house. Washed, tear-free, stain-free. This is a stripy beige Superking duvet cover from Dreams with a button-up side.

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13d

Free: Superking fitted sheet, pale blue, cotton (Oldfield Park) Gifted Bedding from a pet-free, smoke-free house. Washed, tear-free, stain-free. This is a pale blue cotton fitted undersheet from Dreams.

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13d

Free: Cuisinart grill/ griddle (Oldfield Park) Gifted We got this as a gift from some friends who use theirs all the time but to be honest, we’ve only ever done ham and cheese toasties on it. It’s got a removable grease trap and non-stick hotplates so you can apparently roast veggies, do burgers and sausages and all sorts of other things on it. Good for your kid at college perhaps? It’s all in working order and comes with a recipe book and instruction manual.

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14d

Free: Norwegian waffle maker (Oldfield Park) Gifted Every year we host a Norwegian student as they attend Hayesfield school and, occasionally, they leave their waffle maker behind. This one has an adaptor plug to make it work in the U.K. and has only been used a few times... we’re just not into waffles the same way Norwegians are! Are you a family that is?

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14d

Free: IKEA ‘Arstid’ table lamp (Oldfield Park) Gifted Clean, working IKEA table lamp in need of a new home and a new lampshade. This stands about 50cm / 21” up to the lampshade nut at the top.

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21d

Free: Vango Eclipse Double sleeping bag (Oldfield Park) Gifted Summer-weight double-width sleeping bag that we used to take camping when the kids were little and wriggly. It had a zip down each side and it fully reversible, should you want the dots on the inside. It’s clean and been stored on a bedroom shelf, so doesn’t have that loft smell either.

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21d

Free: Magimix Le Duo juicer (Oldfield Park) Gifted After being on our kitchen side in constant use for many years, this juicer’s just spent its second year in a cupboard, suggesting we’re never going to use it again. It’s had a lot of use but is a very robust unit - the white motor unit weighs a ton - so there’s plenty of life left in it. The most obviously worn part is the steel drum inside which shreds and separates the pulp - the teeth on this aren’t as sharp as they used to be. We used to use it daily to juice carrots, beetroot, apples and lettuce and the results were amazing. There’s also a brown top unit specifically to squeeze oranges.

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21d

Free: Olympus 35mm film camera (Oldfield Park) Gifted This was the last film camera we bought before going digital, so dates to about 2003. It was working when I took the battery out and put it in a box so I’m assuming it still works. The slide cover at the front was repaired with epoxy glue at some point but this doesn’t impede its movement. The big question is whether anyone shoots on 35mm film any more.

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169d

Free: Big bag of 22cm Vango tent pegs (Oldfield Park) Gifted We recently changed our holiday tent after 20 years and the new one came with two bags of pegs, which is one bag too many. Hands up who left all their pegs at the last camp site they went to and need some more...

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169d

Free: Ergon brand medium-sized mountain bike gloves (Oldfield Park) Gifted Recently washed and in good condition medium-sized summer weight mountain bike gloves. They have a padded heel, a mostly suede palm for grip and a velcro cuff. I'm putting up a few cycling items on Freegle and will give people 24 hours to respond so that I can spread them out across as many interested parties as possible. Please wait for a response and please don't say "I'll take everything!" Just reply to register your interest in the one thing you'd like the most, thanks.

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286d

Free: Endura brand mountain bike gloves - medium sized (Oldfield Park) Gifted Recently washed and in good condition medium-sized summer weight mountain bike gloves. They have a padded heel, rubber texture for grip and an elasticated cuff. I'm putting up a few cycling items on Freegle and will give people 24 hours to respond so that I can spread them out across as many interested parties as possible. Please wait for a response and please don't say "I'll take everything!" Just reply to register your interest in the one thing you'd like the most, thanks.

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286d

Free: IQ brand neoprene wet-weather overshoes for road cycling (Oldfield Park) Gifted As far as I can tell, I never even used these! They're XXL and so will feet over shoes between about 10 and 13, I'd imagine. There's a far velcro opener at the back, while the undersides are open to let the cleats clip into your pedals. I'm putting up several cycling items on Freegle and will give people 24 hours to respond so that I can spread them out across as many interested parties as possible. Please wait for a response and please don't say "I'll take everything!" Just reply to register your interest in the one thing you'd like the most, thanks.

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286d

Free: Summer weight cycle top and bib shorts, XXL (Oldfield Park) Gifted Well-used but still in good condition summer weight cycle gear. The top is XXL and was made round about 2014 by Sportful as a promotional item for the now-defunct Procycling magazine. The bib shorts are XXL and made by Castelli. I'm 6'7" and quite slim, so despite all the Xs in the sizing, these are for a tall person rather than a chunky one. I'm putting up about half a dozen cycling items on Freegle and will give people 24 hours to respond so that I can spread them out across as many interested parties as possible. Please wait for a response and please don't say "I'll take everything!" Just reply to register your interest in the one thing you'd like the most, thanks.

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286d

Free: Swingball and bats (Oldfield Park) Gifted Now that it's spring, who wouldn't want to play Swingball in tne garden? Well, apart from my kids, who are now apparently too old for this kind of battery-free fun.

301d

Free: Two graphic novels (comic books)– violent, not for kids (Oldfield Park) Gifted I'm nervous about giving them to the charity shop in case they accidentally put them in the children's section because they're comics. Both of these are crime-driven stories with loads of graphic violence that are aimed at an adult audience. Think of movies like Taken, John Wick or Goodfellas rather than your traditional comic book Batman & Robin.

304d

Free: 8mm cine film editing blocks from the 1960s and 1970s (Oldfield Park) Expired Two beautifully engineered cine film editing equipment made by Japanese manufacturer JPL in the 1960s and 1970s. Each one is pretty much the same, although the boxes reflect the design ethos of the two decades. Unless you're one of the three people left on the planet still actively using cine film, they're entirely useless but they do look so wonderful that if yoiu have a bunch of vintage camera gear on display on a shelf, they'd look great. They're also pretty much worthless – I've tried selling them on eBay many times – so please come and get them only if you want them as paperweights for your home office.

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304d

Free: Vango 600 family tent (Oldfield Park) Gifted Absolutely huge family tent that we bought in 2004, has been used most years since and is now far too big for our needs. As you can see from the camoflage tent in the photo, our teenage kids prefer to sleep in their own space these days, so we've bought a smaller main tent that better suits our needs. This is a Vango 600 tent and there are a million online reviews of it if you want more details. It's basically a huge central dome with two side bedrooms and a long entrance tunnel. I'm 6'7" and can stand up easily in the dome, giving you some idea of how tall it is. We've slept in it just short of 250 nights over the years, so this has been well used. However, it's survived seven named storms without catastrophe, often when the surrounding AirBeam tents were completely flattened. Such a long life and stormy history has left it with a few minor bits of damage, none of which affect its usability of waterproofness: 1. A tear on the top, which is fixed with tape. 2. A worn tent pole tunnel, again fixed with tape. 3. The door zip opening from the main dome to the entrance tunnel starts to unfasten in strong winds. 4. One of the resin tent poles has split end to end and been taped back together. This fix has been fine the last two years, although the added friction does make it a bit harder to feed into the pole tunnel during assembly. 5. Finally, I stupidly left the entire bag of tent pegs at a campsite in Cornwall last summer, so the new owner will need to buy a good three or four dozen. I just looked on Amazon and they're cost you maybe £20. This has been a huge tent for our four-person family, has easily slept up to eight when the main dome is used and has been a joy to go on holidays in. Despite its age, it's clearly got at least five more years of use left in it and maybe even more. What could your family do with it and where might it take you?

308d

Free: Upholstery foam tube, 20cm diameter, 40cm long (Oldfield Park) Expired Don't know what else to say about this that isn't already in the headline. It's a big bit of foam that we don't need any more.

309d

Free: 1950s or 1960s dining table with extensions (Oldfield Park) Gifted Solid wood table from before everything was flat-packed, so if you're coming for this, make sure you have plenty of space in the boot of your car. We've been using this as an arts and crafts table, hence the glue and paint splodges on the original tabletop that has no major gouges or scratches. The main tabletop is 75cm wide and just short of 100cm long. Each of the two leafs, which slide away under the tabletop when not in use, are about 25cm long, so the full-length table is about 150cm.

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310d

Free: Red plastic sled (Oldfield Park) Gifted Plastic sled bought years ago from Francis DIY on Moorland Road. My kids are grown up now, so we've no further use for it. As you can see from the photos, the back-right corner's broken off but otherwise it's good to go next time Bath gets snow. Whenever that might be.

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315d

Free: Citroen Berlingo double bike rack (Oldfield Park) Gifted This is Citroen's own bike rack specifically for an early model Citroen Berlingo, fitted in the photos to our 2007 model. Since it's a custom rack, it's effortless to attach, with two hooks hanging off the top of the rear door and two rubber feet resting on the sides. It has two rails to fit two bikes, with straps that attach the wheels to the rails. However, since it's tailored for this one vehicle, I'm pretty sure it won't fit any other car. I think even the newer model Berlingo has a different, more sloping rear door so maybe it doesn't even work on that. If you're interested but have doubts and live near Oldfield Park, just swing past and see whether it fits to your car.

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315d

Free: Halloween and magical-themed colouring books (Oldfield Park) Gifted My Nightmare Before Christmas-loving teenage daughter pulled this stack of colouring books out just before Halloween and decided she was totally over being all dark and Gothy. She's coloured in a few of these pictures but mostly they're all ready and waiting for anyone with a full set of felt tips.

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Free: A carrier bag full of… clean, used once carrier bags (Oldfield Park) Expired I have a nutjob relative who is so into conspiracy theories and believing global warming is a mind-control experiment created by the woke media elite that he buys Bags for Life each and every time he goes shopping, just to prove a point. I'm guessing that once Greta Thunberg hears that he spends 30p per bag just to get at her, she'll be absolutely gutted and pack it in trying to save the polar bears. Not only that but he then passes them all onto me since he knows how much I hate waste. I'm assuming this re-use of conspiracy fuelled anger is ironic, given that this is the only time he recycles anything. Now obviously, I'm such a planet-hugging libtard that I only use tote bags and I've now run out of uses for so many used once Bags for Life. This bag has maybe 30 or 40 in it, each one carefully folded up and put away by me. That's a LOT of 30p plastic bags. So come on somebody, please come and taken them away before I end up with a whole bin liner full of them!

1y

Free: Upholstered IKEA chair (Oldfield Park) Gifted Good condition IKEA chair from a smoke and pet-free home. The red fabric has no stains or fading – the light patches in the photos are just sunlight.

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1y

Free: Fairground-themed popcorn and candy floss makers (Oldfield Park) Gifted Two fun food makers from a smoke and pet-free home. Our kids have grown up a bit now so don't use them any more. The popcorn maker is pretty kid-friendly, in that it's a contained metal heating cup that blows hot air. Just tip a measure of popping corn into the middle, turn it on and then wait until it starts hosing out fresh popcorn. Used with supervision, it's very safe. The candy floss maker does require adult supervision at all times though since the central part of the drum gets hot. You tip in a measure of coloured sugar (that's what in the bags) and then the centre heats up and spins until threads of cotton candy start spinning off into the white plastic bowl. Just use a wooden chopstick or wooden spoon handle to wrap it all up into a fluffy ball.

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1y

Free: Epsom XP-605 colour printer, scanner, photo printer (Oldfield Park) Gifted This scans, connects to computers and phones with Wi-Fi perfectly, does crisp regular printing up to A4 paper and tremendous photo printing on glossy paper. I've just got to a point where I don't need a printer any more. As you can see from the ink level photos, two of the colour cartridges are pretty much full while the regular and photo black are both exhausted. Like all printers, this one won't print unless all the colours have ink – yes, even if you're just printing black and white – so to get this up and running, you'll have to buy a set of Epsom 'polar bear' cartridges or equivalent. The printer is front loading, with a tray for printed pages, a big paper tray for up to A4 and a smaller tray for photos and A5. I last used it in August (when the black ran out) so I thought it was better to rehome it sooner rather than later before the remaining ink gets all dry and gummy.

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1y

Free: Janome Memory Craft 4800 sewing machine (Oldfield Park) Gifted Bought brand new in the late 1990s as the flashiest on the market, this Janome sewing machine has just been retired and replaced by my wife, who has bought an upgrade. All of the bobbins and feet still work on her new model, which leaves this still working but no longer needed. It comes with a foot pedal, power supply and little screwdriver, which I've managed not to photograph. As far as we can tell, the only non-functioning part of this machine is the LCD display, which the sewing machine man in Bath said can no longer be bought. This means that any experienced sewing machinist need to consult the menu on the top lid, press the 'Mode' button and then key in the required number. The machine will adjust the setting, only the display won't display it. This seems to be a classic Freegle item in that we no longer need it but it isn't broken. If you do a lot of sewing, maybe you need a spare, or one to sit alongside your newer machine to crank out straight seams or something?

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1y

Free: 5 litre container with flip-top pouring lid (Oldfield Park) Expired Clean, empty 5 litre jug that some laundry liquid came in. It seems such a shame to drop it in the recycling bin but I don’t have a use for it. Maybe you do?

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