Bit of an odd one. All day, around half of the ticker notifications have shown “Sorry, this story isn’t available”, even for some replies to my own posts which are clearly still there. Has...
A package sent to me via Ebay, due to arrive 1st June, didn’t. The seller has a faultless Ebay history, trading since 2004, and is being 100% helpful. Royal Mail will declare the item lost if not...
Am I overthinking? My daughter’s mother and I split a long time ago. Last year, in somewhat unlikely circumstances, I got my daughter to exchange her contact details with a girl who we met in a pub...
Barring major upsets it looks like Bingham vs Murphy in the final and I’m really torn between a personal favourite for the title. Have to say Shaun is my favourite player – total integrity,...
Q: How many Alzheimers patients does it take to change a lightbulb? A: To get to the other side. A horse walks into a pub. The barman asks “Why the long face?” The horse says “My wife just...
Has anybody read this? So far I’ve persisted and got through the first 100 pages but it’s absolutely dreadful. Stilted, unrealistic dialogue, set pieces which seem as flimsy and disjointed as...
Sorry to bring up such an odd subject, but it’s only come about because of (would you believe) music. Tons of years ago a friend and I did the engineering work for a band who wanted to record a...
This PC (running XP) has had media processing problems for a while but they’re getting ridiculous, and these problems are media-related only – other types of software work perfectly well apart...
I was just adding some pics to a post and, while typing a description, my finger(s) must have found a keypress which removed the ticker column on the right and expanded the central text area to cover...
I love finding quotes – especially anonymous ones – which have a generous dollop of irony and/or sarcasm. My favourite from the last day or so: Ladies, we guys are getting tired of you asking...
There seem to be many recorded instances of a parent (almost always the mother) instantly ‘sensing’ that something has happened to an offspring, even if that child is thousands of miles away. In...
Just bought LG 50PB66 smart TV, but it's not seeing my PS3. With the old TV, if I switched on the console it automatically moved to the HDMI channel - this one doesn't and I can't see a setting....
In remembering dreams I find I can only recall visual stuff – this has always been the case for me and is true even when, after waking, I’m absolutely sure part of the dream has been a...
Hi all I gather that somewhere on today's puzzle page is a panel looking forward to Christmas Day puzzles, and that it has a tag line "Celebrate Christmas Day with Elkamere". That's me - and it's...
Hardly ever use WhatsApp, but a friend just sent me a couple of photos. Using a Windows phone, the only relevant option is 'Forward' but it only seems to offer the WhatsApp users on my contacts list....
It was the sort of discussion that can happen when we have a 3 hour wait between soundcheck and performance. Conversation wove its way into relationships and I made a comment that got an unexpectedly...