First of all I would like to wish everybody a very happy new year. My wife cooked the pork yesterday afternoon for today's dinner, I have just sliced the pork but the crackling is like rubber, any...
So, what did everyone do on New Year's Eve? Was it a quiet night in with a bottle of sparkling wine and a DVD or did you go out on the tiles? We went to The Kensington Garden Hotel near Hyde Park for...
Do you have the 'traditional' (well in Scotland anyway) steakpie? We're having a wee party and will be having steakpie with all the trimmings and my mate is making her world famous lasagne! Its going...
How's everyone's post Christmas week going? Have finally shifted the evil cold and had a lovely day in Heaton Park yesterday and despite only popping into town today for a coffee and to do some...
the local landlord smokes,albeit outside,eats behind bar,combs his hair and blows his nose all without washing his hands,is this breaking health and safety laws?
The AA in their wisdom applied to my bank for a monthly DD 4 days early, the money wasnt there and so my bank has now charged me ?30 for the privilege of returning my DD unpaid.. Does anyone know if I...
Why doesn't my washing machine take the conditioner at the end of the cycle? I wash the little plastic compartment through after every wash but the conditioner is still there at the end and my wash...
Just finished mine, had chicken kiev, mushrooms, grilled tomato and golden rice (pkt), glass of juicy bits orange juice, lovely. Letting it settle then off to clean the kitchen!
As its only me, the mrs and the kids for NYE I've had this madcap idea to have a bbq on the night. Sod it, we spend all summer wishing we could have one if the rain stopped and blue skies tend to come...
So i've been driving for 40 years now, and what ever car i've had never had a broken front coil spring, but sad to say i've broken that record. when i had my brand new mondeo in 2001 it was said to be...
If someone damaged there knee when they were 25yrs old and it resulted in injections to slow down arthritis and was told by the orthopedic surgeon that he will need a knee replacement in the near...