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Getting Old

You know you are getting old when you bend down to pick something up, and while you are down, you have a good look around to see if there is anything else that you can pick up at the same time. Do you...

dave50

So what does everyone think of the paralympics?

Do they truly test a person's sporting prowess on a level playing field so to speak or are they just a gesture to the disabled so as not to make them feel excluded?

brionon

What Sport

Would You have in the Olympics ? Darts ? Pole vault long jump ?

barney15c

Why was the USA able to host the Olympics twice in 12 years?

The USA held the 1984 Olympics in LA and the 1996 games in Atlanta, a gap of 12 years , an inordinately short period of time. Why was this? Also if NY City were successfull in bidding on the 2012...

Gizmonster

Paintwork Warranty

I bought an 18 month old car approx 4 weeks ago from a local Fiat dealership. When I came to wash it I noticed about 2" of paint chipped off under the offside front wheelarch (this is perilously...

porkchop

Night visitors

Over the past few mornings I have small silvery streaks on my kitchen floor from some night time intruder,. Any idea of what they are? Thanks.

Glaikityin

Boundary hedge

I have a leylandii hedge in ny back garden which is cut back twice yearly in March and September to a height of six feet. I keep it this height so I cannot see next doors `garden` as it has been left...

janzman

i don't understand how an athlete who has one discilpine to master...

...can get it so wrong.Long jump and triple jump,the take off board doesn't move ,the athlete chooses their own run up technique and then practises for months on end, hours and hours...why then do...

princerupe74

athletes slowing down

why do leading athletes often slow down before the finishing line? Surely their times matter....

AKMild

Propagating strawberries

I know that strawberry plants generally do not perform very well after about three years, but if I propagate them by layering, will the plants that result be 'new' or just a clone of the tired parent?

coccinelle

Was my tree hit by lightning?

Can anyone tell me how you know if a tree was hit by lightning? One of the trees in my garden was split during a thunderstorm; there were three parts coming from the main stem and one split leaving a...

Redheadthere

belly fat?

I have lost about a stone and a half in the last 3 months, eating healthy and exercising. Despite al that my belly remains the same, still fat, weird

Cetti

Eurotunnel shares

My son bought a 100 Eurotunnel shares in 1996 and now needs to cash them in but because of the continual changing of company ownership he's unable to get any help. He's gone from Lloyds Sharedeal...

firewatch

Speech

As you may be aware I have a 2 and 1/2 year old. Her speech is pretty good but shes struggling on some sounds how can I encourage her to form sounds correctly? We have stammers and speech problems in...

kopend

rowing

who was the cox who cried his eyes out at the medal ceromony at the olymopics quite a while ago now possibly even as long ago as barcelona? and i think it was a two man team plus the cox who was quite...

janzman

why are slugs so attracted to hostas...

...This is an ongoing problem so this year I put a hosta in a fairly large container on my patio.The container is round metal and about 13ins high,like a miniature old fashioned steel dustbin.Almost...

factor-fiction

Team GB?

I still don't understand why the team is called Great Britain (as written on all shirts) and the national anthem is described as the national anthem of Great Britain when the team includes athletes...

excelsior-1

they've been expelled!

quite rightly too. those eight badminton players who tried to rig their matches by playing like idiots have paid the price....

sammmo

Arrogant olympians

Do you think the arrogant olympians look stupid? You know the ones I mean. The ones with the sunglasses etc.. What Snags!!!!

Linda51

GETTING RID OF SPIDERS WEBS

I am forever wiping away spiders webs from the windowsills outside but a couple of days later they are back again. Does anyone have any tips on how to keep them at bay. We have upvc windows sills....

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