Familiarity breeds contempt. For instance on holiday you find a really nice place to eat breakfast or dinner or a bar at night. When you first go they really look after you. After a couple of days the...
apparently I don't .... we are having a brief respite from the drizzle that has been permeating for the last two weeks, so I asked my husband to put some washing on so that I could get some dried...
I've placed a card in the local newsagents and an advertisement in the Lost and Found section of Gumtree. I've never used one before. Would it be safe to try it in my computer to see if I can identify...
I started my engineering apprenticeship when I was 15 at AEI, Trafford Park, in 1963. This was a company that employed 20,000 people. We attended apprentice school for 3 days per week, spent one day a...
Are there any - Attending the Hairdresser- beginner classes about? No matter how often I go I still cannot grasp the lingo! I seem unable to describe what i want, unable to get any ideas from them and...
Something strange has been happening in our bathroom, for the past three months my dear ones face flannel has been turning blue when its been left for a few hours on the side of the bath, mine...
I've only noticed one vehicle where a tax disc is not adorning the windscreen . You can see where it once was on the screen , because of the remnants . Have you taken your's off or are you going to...
I need to supply the UDID for my ipad in order to participate in some beta testing. The instructions to find the UDID, and everything similar online, tells me to connect my ipad to my mac and launch...
Gosh my head is spinning - SO many characters, it is difficult to follow, but I'm sticking with it as it seems good. Can anyone give me a quick summary of who's who tonight?...
Without cheating/googling do you know maximum age for potential jurors? I didn't - my guess was out by 10 or 15 years (the maximum age is about to rise again). I'll post the answer in a few minutes...
recently, me and my husband discussed having more children, and decided probably not to. Unbeknownst to me he booked a vasectomy. when he told me i realised i really didn't want him to - the thought...
Why is it whenever I eat porridge immediately afterwards I crave white buttered bread or potatoes? It's not just me as 3 friends have the same craving! We're not pregnant and this only happens with...
Somebody's going to start the discussion, so as might as well be me! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29623851 I'm happy to support the idea but it's not something that I feel strongly...
I last had the flu in 1986. I'm in my early 50's and thankfully no medical conditions to speak of. Every year the increased media coverage about the flu jab makes me wonder whether to wander into a...
How many baths/showers do you have a week?! I have one shower a day in the morning. My flatmate has a shower in the morning and a bath every night! How does this compare with you/your family?
To help celebrate today's birthdays and to cheer us all up, how about a party game. Its called the Five letter Game. Here are 5 letters, you make a sentence where each word begins with each initial....