I have this thing about not phoning people after 9pm if its not something that can wait until the next day. Different if its an emergency. Whats your cut-off time? Someone I know always phones late....
Hi everyone, need some help please. Hubby has depression and anxiety, been unable to work for 5 years almost and his anger issues and ability to cope with stressful situations is getting quite bad....
I love reading books about, well... weird people I guess. Things such as The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson are my favourites (plus the rest of his repertoire). Can anyone suggest any other non-fiction...
The Archbishop of Westminster has asked the Pope to strip Savile of his Papal Knighthood , which is pointless as it dies with his death but it could be removed from their rolls of Knights but what is...
Just stumbled on "Shadow of the wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and although I'm only 100 pages or so in I'm absolutely hooked. Not only is the language brilliant but the translation has...
Anyone watch this? How could he hypnotise him by just touching his head, also when he woke up in that room, why did he not need the loo having slept all night? Is the whole thing a fake?
If there is a better place to post this question please advise me. I have a Whirlpool AWE 6517 top loader automatic washing machine which is failing to go into the spin cycle. I would like to attempt...
I dont think I've spontaneously recommended a book before, so here goes. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is magical and brilliant, and I'm SO hooked on it. Jeanette winterson said it was the book...
Do you think that like sleep you just slip into a peaceful darkness? Do you believe that somehow and somewhere we are resurrected in a new shape and form? Do you believe that as the books have said we...
Is it necessary to read The Kite Runner before reading A Thousand splendid suns? I was buying the latter from a Charity shop when another customer assured me that it was best to read the Kite Runner...
I enjoy biographies, true crime, etc but would like to try more novels, last one I read was Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones. Favourite classic was The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
Can we maintain a thread which has responses from well known song lyrics? I'll start us off. I once had a girl or should I say she once had me. (The Beatles.) Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl....
Quiz. The answer is a town or city in England, Scotland or Wales and has 8 letters. It is not a crossword so no letters are relevant. I am struggling with this one.
I still have one that eludes me. "Mr. Ford's finest (8 letters) must be a town or city in the UK. No luck so far. Have had a few suggestions but none are right so far. Can anyone help please?
I don't usually post in here and I do realise that my question isn't of the usual high intellectual calibre, but... Why do the majority of people (believers and atheists alike) feel the need to argue...
The last few are proving a problem. 65) The Festival first (9 letters); 86) Kick the Frenchman (6); 18) Witches score (8); 15) And wise (9); Poet and economist (6, 6) Is this one Milton something?...