Good morning everyone - a bit damp and dismal here today, but then i wasn't planning to go away so happy to stay put, warm and dry !! Hope everyone is coping ok with the various aspects of being in...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 14a. Used in holistic healing therapies and yoga, general word for a mineral, or gemstone such as amethyst, adventurine, citrine, rose quartz or turquoise. (7)...
Please tell me this isn't true - have just read that MPs will receive an extra £10,000 for working at home. Apologies if this has been posted before but this is the first time I have read it. My...
// A group of would-be holidaymakers who flew in a private jet from London to the Côte d’Azur in France have been turned back by police. Seven men and three women arrived on the chartered aircraft to...
what a lovely gesture, speechless.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8208049/Turkey-sends-planeloads-emergency-equipment-including-masks-protective-suits-Britain.html...
A reference, on another thread, to people using Zoom for quizzes suddenly reminded me that I'd not put up this week's BBC Quiz thread yet. So here it is. However, having only scored my usual paltry 3...
Be gentle with me, I'm no birdwatcher. When we go bike riding by fields of crops at the moment, we can hear loads of birds twittering away but can't see them. Occasionally one will appear and fly low...
During the height of the Syrian refugee problem a lot of people such as Nicola Sturgeon,Bob Geldof,Yvette Balls-Cooper and her husband and Lily Allen all took some of these refugees into their many...
....people should carry on protecting the NHS and save lives by not going to the doctors when they don't need to. Certain people are always saying they're ill/not well/out of sorts/under the weather,...
The U.S. are considering terrorist charges for those who wilfully spread Coronavirus. Would a spell in a UK Gitmo teach these and others the seriousness of the current International crisis?...
Is it time for the radio 2 programme on every weekday hosted by Jeremy Vine to be removed? Every day some part of it is devoted to the current crisis and JV always introduces a negative attitude and...
Help!!!! I need to bake a cake and am out of SR flour. This is one of the things that NONE of the shops around here have(I guess all the mums are keeping their kids occupied!!!) Does anyone know if...
Who would you pick from the last 50 years as the PM you reckon would have done best in leading/uniting the country in a fight against a pandemic? I’d probably take Harold Wilson - certainly the...