When using a tumble dryer put a clean dry tea towel in with the washing to be dried. I can't remember the logistics of it, but an article in a paper said it can dry the washing in a third less time....
Sunday. It looks like it'd going to be as wet as yesterday. Some local flooding down the bottom of the hill. Apart from the usual running around I' staying in. Got the wee white lunatic accompanied by...
Any tips please for holiday abroad from uk
Ideally a short flight to somewhere abroad hotish in june for 5 ladies celebrating their 50th birthday. LIVELY BUT NOT BENIDORM...
Now that I'm back off my holiday-moon, and a tad lardier (I can't blame it all on pregnancy), I'm doing a healthy wholegrain salad with roasted veggies, herbs, mixed nuts and seeds and organic spicy...
Today I had the need to ask the Editor to remove a perfectly reasonable thread appertaining to the recent riot taking place on a street in London. From the off set this thread was high-jacked by...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4740762/Protesters-police-bottles-barricade-east-London-road.html
These mobs don't do anything to foster good relations with certain ethnic minorities....
I'm mulling a few ideas over and am thinking of buying a pub as many of the old school type ones have closed down due to the popularity of themed pubs leaving many folk who don't like the young, loud...
Saturday. Cloudy again. Lots of wet stuff yesterday. More today. So much for the hot dry summer we were promised. Tiggy is tucked up in Tiggy Towers. He came out for his supper and a quick wander...
Britain is a secular society and religion should be practised as a matter of private individual faiths & preferences, not to be regarded as the ultimate prescription in laws, life, the universe &...
Well I had my official weigh in today and I am now 10 stone gone in 6 months! So very happy, it has made a huge difference to my life and relationships. Funny though how some people don't want me to...
Motorway Service area prices that includes Fuel, Food? I've covered many routes in my driving days, but the way the prices were going that soon stopped, are the public aware of Garages just off each &...
I can't help feeling that we have seen the end of summer. It has gone from warm and sunny to grey and dreary almost overnight. I'm not holding out much hope of any more heatwaves. I wonder how long it...
I'm currently munching on cucumber and strawbs. I'm working from home which is always dangerous, i'll eat everything in the house if I don't watch it..... think i'm going to have smoked salmon pate...
The ex-pat brother of a friend of mine has recently had a strange communication (reportedly) from HMRC. The letter from HMRC is asking him to send a cheque for 10p (yes, that's ten pence!) in respect...
Seeing NoM posting about both food and her impending happy event prompted some musings ... ... it seems that the propensity (officially the AB word of the day) of celebrities to name their children...