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book dedications

Which detective novels carry the following dedications? 1.For Ngaio Marsh who gave me the title 2.To Brian Bedwell 3.For Jane & Peter who kindly allowed two of my characters to live at 57 Norwich St....

darth vader

ideas wanted for a herb garden

Having tried for 2 years (and failed) to grow veggies in a small plot (which is too sheltered by trees/fence to grow anything significant) me and Mrs Vader fancy a herb garden instead - we will have 8...

leavinghome

Off your face

Where does 'Off Your Face' come from?

kriskwery

Coffee with banana??

Looked like a take-away coffee with the lid on but had a banana sticking out of the top. Seen on a London tube train. Please can someone put this country cousin out of misery and explain all...

Roastyuk

Programs running in the background

When i look at my memory free in system it tells me that i only have 34% memory available. So i do the old ctrl alt delete and find that i have about 15 programs running which i do not know what they...

Roastyuk

Here's a funny one

Messing about with realplayer and i wanted to delete everything from the database, but not from the hard drive. Guess what i clicked on delete from hard drive. Now someone told me that when you delete...

darth vader

David Blaine in a box

being from up North i can't get to see it myself so would appreciate others' opinions - is it for real or an illusion?

Rimram

Bo Selecta Masks

I'm starting up a company selling Bo Selecta masks - I'm not sure if they'll be popular or not. Will you let me know if you want one? Thanks.

paulz

poached eggs

Try as hard as I might, I can never get my poached eggs to cook properly. In the Microwave they seem to explode, the stove top pan the yolk cooks before the white. I can't stand them cooked in boiling...

paulhopps22

buying and selling online

Anyone know of a decent online site , similar to amazon , where one can advertise vinyl , cd's etc , where the site owner takes a cut of anyhing sold . Amazon is great for current stuff , but I want a...

Lennon

Claim to fame???

Everyone has a claim to fame - no matter how small or big, so whats yours? Mine is that I lived opposite Rod Stewarts sister when I was grwoing up (my parents still live there) and Rod used to park...

arsenal

Congestion Charging (CC)

Shortly after my friend sold his car he received a letter from CC asking him to pay a penalty for the offence he did not commit. He replied late, after 28 days explaining that he was not the owner of...

pen

which wheels fit which cars

is there somewhere on the net that can tell me the answer! 4 instance, will alloys from an escort fit a peugeot205 or a toyota corolla etc .etc. etc.

pezza.......

Speeding Fine

I have been sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution for a speeding offence. The offence happened while I was working with a number of Police Officers and they will confirm I wasnt driving the car at the...

manutdstott

am I correct

I have just joined friends of answerbok, and theres a closed poll name that tune, it plays 1 second of an intro to a song. I think its satifaction by the stones am I correct?

Hails

Seb Fontaine(?)show.

Whilst driving to pick up my chinese take away this evening (7pm) there was a brilliant song on radio one. It opened Seb Fontaine's show, it was something about dreaming and dying? Does anyone know...