Same question crops up every Burns Night, I grew up eating large field turnips, purplish skin and orange inside and used to carve them out at Halloween. Ones you get in supermarkets nowadays that are...
Hi, my washing machine is working fine, except when it is on spin the noise is getting louder and louder, does anyone know how to rectify this, without calling out an engineer? Thankyou.
I had to waste 14 days to serve as a juror. The case concerned someone who had stolen a £40 ring from a jeweller's shop. On another occasion my wife had to waste 14 days because a jealous...
Thanks again to all those who helped me with the stray dog problem last night. It was reunited with its owner first thing this morning! They had never updated the chip details when they moved from the...
Can anyone help? I need help tracing the owner of a stray dog I found today. Its an old (over ten) crossbreed, female named Jess. The vet checked the chip but the details are out of date. It used to...
So the other week I went on a 'date', to be introduced to the mother (great date right?). Anyways, she cooks us a meal, I presume he can't cook rather than wont cook. Dinner was canadian burgers, YUM,...
I'm in a nostalgic mood now- just been listening to my 'Dreamboats and Petticoats' CDs while I did some long over due ironing! I heard 'Sea of Heartbreak' by Joe Brown and the Bruvvers and it set me...
I know there has already been a thread on this but, having strong views about this I just wanted to add something and ask for other opinions on this topic. Sir David Attenborough once said 'Fifty...
All about him - all answers include a word that could be used to describe a male eg mr sir man etc No number of letters given 23 Flightless bird of Antartica I can only think of penguin but that isn't...
How many more families are going to be destroyed in this way - there have been a spate of them in the past 6 weeks, it so sad and seems to be an epidemic, that a father kills all his family....
I'm not at all technical but I believe this is called spoofing. A couple of days ago at least two friends in my email contact list got a spam email supposedly from me. I had never seen it and...
10 items Unabloodyvailable. No Mince Pies. No Sprouts. No Christmas Cake. No Christmas Pudding. No Creme Fraiche, No Yorkshire Puddings, No Joint of Beef, No Joint of Pork, No Green & Blacks...
Got in tonight to find that the dog had been upstairs to the Christmas presents and taken a box of Thorntons toffee from a table, taken it downstairs, opened all the packaging and eaten it all!! Rang...
Does anybody remember the sports papers published on Saturday evening many years ago. They gave all the football results etc in the days when not everyone had a tv. As a child in West Yorks in the 50s...