As it's the summer holiday for me and I don't have to return to work until September, I offered to become a volunteer at the local charity shop. I went for my first three hour stint yesterday and...
Well in Leicestershire this afternoon we have experienced a storm like no other - one of almost biblical proportions! It started with a sky so dark, it reminded me of the total eclipse we had about 15...
In a show of decisiveness that would make Greece proud the AB BOTM poll ended in a tie :+) Peter James – ‘Dead Simple’ Tess Gerritsen - ‘The Surgeon’ So I'm making an...
Had a wonderful holiday, Croatia a beautiful country. We had 3 leaks and a crumpled bumper. Actually got stopped by customs for the first time. At the window where you show passports, they grilled us,...
I have just been listening to 'The Pickerskill Detentions' on radio. The episode had PW in the cast. I have not seen or heard of him since Department S. Does anyone know what he has been doing since...
This is where the CLEVER people hang out. Do you want to be a clever person and discuss things that have no conclusion or would you rather get on with life, before it's too late?...
Another question reminded me of a conversation I had with my friends last week about simple things that some of us can't do. Mine was that I still struggle to tell the time on an analogue clock! Out...
I was at a lunch today, guests were invited for 12.00 with a view to eating at 12.30. By 12.15 none of the 11 guests had arrived, they finally started to trickle in with the last arriving at about...
.............what other social gaffes/foibles get your blood boiling.
One of mine is people who stop for a blether in busy shop doorways/aisles. We should be allowed to tazer them!...
Which modern phrases annoy you the most. I personally can't stand it when people say "simples" like that meerkat advert a few years back or "end of" when discussing something... I...
No, not her health - not great, much the same as ever, now that the she no longer has the warming effect of the Egyptian sunshine. Mrs Overall, whose post on my last thread I have now seen, seems to...
its a very sad time again, losing my much loved sister on monday gone. Bless her heart, she was wonderfull. This may be played at her funeral hopefully. I loved her and my bro who passed away last...