How do I go about tracing people who were born after the 1901 census? I have not yet got enough information even to start paying to see archives. I have asked my family but all they can tell me is...
I have recently had a rat in my garden and the pest control officer has told me to take all my bird feeders down as they are attracting the rat. I love seeing the birds in my garden and always thought...
We had our hall, stairs and landing skimmed before we paint it, but once it had dried there were a few areas we weren't happy with, holes, rough patches etc. we spoke to the plasterer who arranged to...
I want to re-decorate the spare room, but I don't want to remove the wallpaper as the plaster in the rest of the house has been really bad. Most of the paper is sound but it is lifting at the edges in...
I'm looking for a mobile for my daughter and want to spend as little as reasonably possibly, without buying rubbish. She would like a flippy or slidy one with a camera and I want pay as you go and...
I have a computer with Linux and am unable to download music onto my MP3. I'm not very technically minded but a friend who downloads music a lot has not been able to do it on my computer. Is there a...
I have a computer with Linux and am unable to work out how to download music onto an MP3. I'm not very technically minded, but a friend of mine who downloads music a lot also can't work out how to do...
Hi. I have posted a question in the family section as I didn't realise a geneology section existed! I am having trouble finding much information about my great grandfather. I know his dates of birth,...
I have been researching my family tree and am still not able to find much about my great grandfather. I know his dates of birth, death and marriage, and his place of marriage. I am struggling because...
Yesterday a huge lorry tried to run me off the road in the borders on scotland. I had my husband and 2 children in the car with me and feel the driver could have killed us all. Unfortunately I wasn't...
My husband and 9 year old are away on a rugby tour next weekend and have to dress up as a 'pair' ie Laurel and Hardy or Batman and Robin. Apart from these, has anyone got any bright ideas what they...
Thanks to the answers to my previous question about where to start with my family tree, I have made some progress. However, I'm a bit stuck trying to find out more about my grandfather's parents. He...
We have just seen my son's teacher at school who has told us he is a bit concerned about his attitude to work at school. He doesn't seem to concentrate for very long and doesn't work well in a group....
We have started having a delivery of organic vegetables, but some of the things which have come are not ones we are familliar with. We have a fennel bulb and we think an artichoke, neither of which I...
My Freeview digital topbox was working ok with the occasional channel pixelating. Now most of the channels pixelate so badly the programmes are unwatchable. Does anyone know what the likely cause is...