I was talking to some American visitors the other day, and one man, a storekeeper was so impressed by the cheque guarantee card scheme that the banks run here, and was amazed to hear that it has been...
My house is 30 years old, the electrics still look OK by todays standards, plenty of sockets and no problems apparent, but an electrician neighbour insists that a rewire is now due, and has set about...
Car runs fine, but occasionally at the lights it will start to chug slightly. Rev needle hardly moves, I shifted it out of drive into neutral when it's doing it , but to no effect. Then when driving...
Extra line in daughters room was disconnected back in september when she went to college and has been dead ever since. However all through the holiday so far she is still managing to connect to AOL...
Does anyone know if the UK postal code system was devised by the same people as the Canadian system. They seem very alike. Any other country use this format?
Is it just me, but his year everywhere I turn there are these ubiquitous deep blue fairy lights, on windows or festooned outside houses. Even my new kettle lights up the same colour!! Are these a...
Daughter is going into new flat next term which she excitedly described as 'Shabby Chic' Is this this a euphamism for 'Midden' or have student flats evolved since my day?
We found a box of old decorations and lights in mother in law's loft, some of the sets of lights go back to the 40's 50's and are the large cone shape that even I can remember! Problem is I would love...
Does anyone know anything about this? I was reading on a DWP website that anyone can apply for information held by them, does that actually mean anyone could apply for my personal information or vice...
Can anyone explain to me how a gas (credit) meter works. Ours has the date 1992 on it and says : max rating 12v dc 10 mA. Does it have a battery in it ? if so would it need replacing to keep the meter...
Had no time to prepare my own yesterday and had to buy packets of sandwiches (?3.70 each) two pints of milk (.80p each) and two small apples (.60p each) on the M6 services at Southwaite. Total ?10.20...