Does anyone know how to turn off the grammar and spell check in Hotmail - the constant green and red underlining is driving me mad! All the online tutorials seem to be about Outlook or mention buttons...
Something strikes me as very strange about the recent increase in the number of cases. We are told that transmission is dependent on 'very close physical contact', but the WHO said this week that 99%...
I have recently been diagnosed with coeliac disease, and as a vegetarian I am faced with a severe lack of options (not to mention great expense!) in food I can consume, particularly vegeburgers and...
I think I'm right in thinking you live in Brighton? If so, have you lived there long enough to remember the Glass Animal Man, who worked in the window of a shop on the road down from the station? My...
How realistic is it really to do probate yourself? A friend is over from the USA to do this and I have sent her the links to the relevant gov.uk sites, but she is feeling daunted by it all. I've found...
Hugely disappointed and annoyed at today's news that BBC 4 is no longer going to be a terrestrial channel, and will soon be online only. This channel has some of the most interesting arts-based...
Watching a TV drama today, one of the characters went to Cambridge University to do a one-year Masters Degree in Law. When she got her results she found she'd been awarded a 'first class honours'....
It has been reported tonight that one of the topics up for government discussion at the moment is the possible extension of the need for an MoT from every year to every 2 years. I have all fingers and...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61164205 I've watched coverage of this terrible case tonight on ITV and BBC, but neither of the reports or the information in the above link explain...
Found myself watching the World Cup draw tonight and their were a few 'constraints' - occasions when teams could not be put into the group they were chosen for because they were from the same...
My new laptop is offering me a free upgrade to Windows 11. Have any ABers got it already, and, if so, would you recommend it? I only use my laptop for internet, emails and the odd YouTube video, so I...
I'm trying to connect my new Lenovo laptop to my HP Deskjet 1514 printer, but when I click 'add device' all I get is " the printer that I want isn't listed". Anything I can do to get a connection - I...
I've just got a new Lenovo laptop which I really like, but when I tried to install OpenOffice I got the message: "For security and performance, Windows 10 in S mode runs Microsoft-verified apps. To...
In my local Post Office today I asked for a book of 12 second class stamps and was told " only books of 8 available" They are the new ones with the QR code that we'll all have to use from next year -...
Here's a cracker, courtesy of Private Eye: Q: "Downsizing:How I Lost 8 Stone, Reversed My Diabetes and Regained My Health" is a book by which former deputy leader of the Labour Party? A: The only name...
1 How have Charity and her son Ryan been able to buy The Woolpack when a) Ryan would not have received any money from his inheritance, as his adoptive mother only died two weeks ago b) Charity has not...
I had an 'A' rated Worcester Greenstar condensing boiler fitted two weeks ago, which works well and I'm very happy with it; also had an extra radiator fitted in the main downstairs room. I'd taken a...