Hello boys and girls of a literary bent (ooh matron indeed) After the wonderful success of chaptazbru’s thread, it was suggested a couple of weeks ago that we have a ‘virtual reading...
We've all been there in a conversation where someone without any kids in a new relationship calls themself a "Step parent" or the kids my "Stepson" or my "Stepdaughter"...
My boyfriend has holiday booked for me and the kids on the 8th July, as I'll be heavily pregnant (I'm 5 months now) I've now decided that I would be too big, the holiday could be too stressful and I'm...
I was gone one Sunday evening when my roommate ordered pizza and my dog snuck out the front door and bit him when he arrived. My dog has never clamped down and bit anyone before - only a few nips...
We keep being ask to conserve water, and because of this I wrote to a well known toilet manufacture to ask, if we all had better shaped toilet bowls we could save millions of gallons of water, owing...
So I cleaned out my food cupboard today because it heaved of garlic. In the haul that went in the bin were 9 Schwartz spice bottles all out of date (which reminded me of a funny Michael McIntyre...
Think this must be the best site I've ever found. No matter what someone asks for there are always suggestions - from maps of the underground, world maps, books, artificial sweeteners etc. No question...
Do you regularly check yourself for any "changes" or lumps? Breasts/ testicles etc? I dont. I should...as my maternal grandmother had cancer, and paternal grandfather passed away with...
Why are all new people treated with suspicion? We were all new at one point.
Were you welcome when you first joined or have you a different story to tell?...
Further to the post from the lady who's step sons appear to have signed their fahters will... My brother and I have witnessed our parents will's and we are executors. The will's are mirrors of each...
eras are defined by the monarch - edwardian, victorian etc... but what are we in now? we have already had an elizabethan, so can we have another? there are also other periods that dont seem to have a...
Hi I have managed to secure a placement with a well known IT company to start in August 2012, when applying they never asked me much about my previous grades at University, just on applying I saw that...
When writing fiction, is there anything LEGAL-WISE to stop you making up an event/incident and saying it happened on a specific date in a well-known place that actually exists?
I've been looking online but had no success (except with US law, which is no use). It's a hypothetical case where someone married to a non-executive board member is caught out having bought shares...
Poor Ghostie seems to have been in a fight and has a nasty wound on his front leg. Vet has put staples in and put a collar on him. Thing is, the collar looks tight to me. The instructions say I should...