OK, so we've little dosh and have worked hard in the garden today. Is it too reckless to grab a cab to the local fish restaurant and have a blast?! The last time we went out was my birthday (2 Feb)....
We have a number of trees in the garden of different varieties. Over the last couple of week we have noticed large clumps of caterpillars on the trunks of two of them. There are a hundred or so all...
My cat was brought up by dogs until he was 8 weeks old when my best friend gave him to me. At the age of 4 he has just followed me to the local shop and sat outside whilst I did my shopping and then...
I just saw this on the BBC live news feed and it made me laugh out loud as a desperate comment when nothing else much is happening "Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are now all in the...
I am doing Sunday lunch tomorrow for my family and my BFs. We are only having cold cuts and salad. I am completely out of ideas for a dessert - most people will eat anything, apart from my dad who...
My step daughter has to choose a famous women in History to write a project and do a presentation. I've come up with a list of options for her. But it got me thinking, if you had to do this as a...
I had to take my sweet little 13 year old girl cat to the vets today. They have telephoned me tonight to say her urea levels are very high (she has had renal failure for 5 years). They have said she...
I keep an empty wine bottle by the back door. It's my ashtray where I put my done with fags so they don't litter the drive. Twice now its been nicked! Came home today (we left the house about 1pm) and...
I made some batter for fish tonight with flour, oil, beer, salt and pepper and an egg white whipped to soft peak stage. It was pretty lush. Do you think I can freeze the remainder? I have loads left...
I have my first full on holiday with the children of my new partner coming up and have taken the week off. Unfortunately, money is a bit tight so we can't afford to spend a lot entertaining them. The...
A friend of mine was born in 1968 under the name of AB. His mother and father divorced and his mother married Mr W in 1972. He and his siblings were then adopted by Mr W. He has just been accepted for...
do you? The last week I have been really really tired. I've been coming home from work feeling tired and then developing a dull frontal headache, feeling slightly nauseous, feeling desperate to go to...
this wretched weather. It's doing its best to completely fluff up my gardening plans for the year. I'm half way through digging out a herbaceous border and got snowed off and ever since it has been...
I've been lucky enough to germinate some dahlias, felicias, lobelias, petunias and antirrhinum. The seedlings seem to be doing quite nicely and the dahlias look like they are about to put our their...
Well I think we've reached the end of the line. We fitted a new flap - it took a couple of weeks for the bruiser next door to break it. We've replaced the hall carpet with lino because he had ruined...
Weather is miserable, boyfriend is miserable, cats are miserable - even the damn birds on the lake are miserable. So lets have some fun:- Each poster contributes only five words to the story. I'll...
Hello me again I've been helping the BF trace his ancestry. He is Scottish. I've hit a problem. One of his ancestors Andrew Reid (born 1839) married Jane Wilson. It's Jane I am having the problem...
The ex wife cowbag from hell has just completely ruined our weekend (by using the children as weapons and not treating them as children). So try and cheer me up, please. Otherwise I shall be stuck...
The BF is a little stressed right now. Consequently, he managed to upset both me and number 1 daughter tonight cos he is being a tetchy bugger. Anyway, I have been nagging him for days to sort our bed...