What is going on with this weather. My little weather do- hicky is telling me its 18c out there and having been in the garden I agree with it. My strawberrys have new flowers on them. I have buds on...
To settle a dispute - my OH says that you do not use up any more fuel by having the air-conditioning on. I say you do, based entirely on Jeremy Clarkson driving a car to Scotland and back on one tank...
We've just returned from the south of France near the Spanish border. At night when walking on the promenade , huge flocks of very noisy birds were hiding in the trees - in fact the trees seemed...
Our resident House Sparrows have for two seasons happily raised broods in one of the nest boxes on our East wall, while ignoring the other identical box situated 4 feet away. I don't know whether to...
Anyone know where I can get an unbiased valuation on a large-(ish) collection of old Biggles novels? I'm disposing of these on behalf of my expatriate son, who has no better idea of their worth than I...
Does anyone know why dogs eat grass? Mine does it fairly often, but when he's under the weather he seems to do it more. Here's the yucky bit; he has been a bit poorly for a day or two and has been...
My husbands been suffering with a dry cough for a while now. He's been fine but last night he couldn't stop coughing and was basically up all night with it (kept me awake too even though he was...
How common (or uncommon) are female ginger cats? We've just had a plumber in who was very taken with our ginger cat Loulou (aka Ginga) and was totally amazed that she is female. He was convinced it...
poor tigger has gone to the big garden in the sky. she had an inoperable growth on her larynx which was discovered cos we had to bring her xray forward cos she was really struggling to breathe. the...
Yesterday's Times crossword had the clue 'meat product nobody should buy' and the answer appears to be 'pork pie'. Google and Wikipedia tell me lots of stuff about hats, meat processing, and jazz...
I spoke to some nice people on here recently regarding this long-lost fairground delicacy, and have managed to locate a supplier of food-grade peas in small quantities. He calls them Carlin Peas, but...
Where can I buy food-grade maple peas, which I think were the main ingredient of the fairground 'black peas' of my boyhood. I understand they're sold as pigeon food and carp bait, and no doubt these...
Well! I stagger down from my death bed to see how you are all getting on - and just look what you've been getting up to! It's so sad because there's no need for all this. ASKERS Don't ask questions...