FTM 2010 is being a right pain in the ****. I am trying to finish a book for Christmas. I am having inordinate problems inserting media files (such as .tiffs and .jpegs) of birth entries and censuses...
I've decided to make a dress for a function next year, but I just can't find any decent patterns. I've tried the normal lot (Vogue, Butterick, McCalls, Simplicity etc), but most of them are singularly...
I lost the instructions. I've tried google, but it isn't helping. I want to record myself playing something on my Yamaha DgX 640. It's got a usb socket and I have a memory stick. Does anyone know how...
I've been telling Mr BM for ages that he needs to get his eyes tested. He's OK at distances, but can't read stuff close up (eg at a carol concert on Sunday in candlelight, he was having real...
Next year we are taking my 88 year old Grandad and 87 year old Grandmother on a trip to the battlefields of Italy (Grandad's request - he wants to go back to where he fought and where he lost so many...
I am trying to trace William Henry Stone who married Rosa Annie White in London in 1894. On ancestry I've found their bans being called but the marriage itself is missing from the records on ancestry....
What would you serve with this lot: Chicken parfait with apple and saffron chutney and granary toast Beef in port and guinness with pickled walnuts, braised red cabbage and celariac and potato puree...
TWR posted a question down there about if you found a grand would you keep it or hand it in. The majority of posters took the view they would hand it in. However, at what level would you think...
I am having a dinner party on Saturday night. It's all going a bit t/up because I can't serve chocolate, game, fish or shellfish (my signature dishes!) I've had a request for melon from my youngest...
it is Mr BM's birthday tomorrow. I know his son would like him to have a cake (Mr BM isn't bothered, but his son will want this). I could just do a plain cake with a fondant icing top and write on it....
A very very dear friend of ours reaches a milestone next week. Now obviously we are getting him a proper nice present. However, we also want to get him some silly presents. We were thinking stuff like...
I don't really know which section to put this in, so I'll stick it in CB until someone tells me to stick it somewhere else (shut it, some of you). Mr BM and I are on a "home makeover" drive....
Having sorted Mr BM's birthday present from me (see technology). I now need to sort Mr BM's present from his son. At school and college he loved art and was quite good. He has expressed a wish to take...
It is Mr BM's birthday next week, so I thought I might buy him an IPAD. He needs it to surf the web and create documents and spreadsheets, receive emails and access pdfs. He'd also like to be able to...
There are a couple of posters who inhabit law in various incarnations. The questions tend to be care home fee based or pension question based. All questions are variations on a theme of previous...
We all geared up for tomorrow then? I've just been finding the decorations and sorting stuff out. I just said to Mr BM "What are you dressing up as to take **** trick or treating?"...
I've just got some flan pastry out the fridge that i made earlier for a bakewell tart. Do I blind bake it or not?!
Recipe was 4oz plain flour, tsp sugar, 3oz butter and an egg....
I'm going to bake some cheese and apple muffins and potentially some chocolate chip ones this afternoon (Mr BM will be glued to the Grand Prix so I might as well make myself useful in the kitchen)....