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Best Wide Ironing Board

Can anyone recommend a manufacturer or retailer of good, stable, wide ironing boards? By wide I mean 45cm plus. My mother is regretting parting with her marvellous but aging "Shirtmaster" (no longer...

pitstopbunny

Traditional French Literature

Please could someone give me the names of some really traditional French authors & their works? Also some good websites to source some more info on them would be good (+ translations) please!

dave_c

The last book you enjoyed reading?

And was it life-inspiring or simply an entertaining yarn?

Robinia

It's the way I speak

pixi doesn't know what a twitchel is - do you? It's what we Nottm people call a .....

georgit79

I'm off

Right, peeps, I'm off home now, I can't pretend to be working any longer, it's getting suspicious. Your task for this evening is to have a party in this very thread. Drink yourselves silly, snog...

Booldawg

Publisher needed

I am probably one of the most, innovative and creative writers in the UK today and am looking for a publisher. I haven't actually written a novel yet and havent really got a clue where to start as I...

whattheheck

Quivering wreck

What about songs that reduce you to tears, turn you to jelly, you know, where you become a complete quivering wreck. I've got loads but one that is guaranteed to do the business is "New York (Hold Her...

karabulut

Antivirus software

What's the best on the market at the moment?

magicbeatle

Carry on Hypothetically

Hi, I have a hypothetical question for you to ponder. All the great carry-on's that have been made in the past had classic cast like Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor...

MargeB

Civil liberties...take your pick

Which civil liberties would you now give up if asked, that you would not have given up last month? Biometric ID cards? Microchip implant? Centralized car tracking? Frequent police stop and search?

lindapinda

Foyle's War

Does anyone else think that Anthony Howell,who plays Paul Milner,looks like some long lost relation of Gregory Peck?

hobsonbear

to late to learn?

i failed my driving test at age 19 and never carried on with it. now, at nearly 40, is it too late for me to try again? i hate driving and don't think i'll ever do it. thanks

timshadie

Digital boxes

why is there such a diffrence in price with these boxes is there a diffrence in what they do or what channells they pick up . Can someone suggest a good one to buy . Thanks guys and girls.

slab999

Best (reasonable priced) Wireless Router

I'm wanting to get a wireless router but dont know anything about them!! Any advice on the best makes or best features to look out for? I've been looking at LINKSYS WRT54GSUK WIRELESS-G BROADBAND...

spanglepants

what is the diffrence

Hi can any one tell me what the diffrence is between a close and a cul-de sac, a road and a street

lissyl78

King Lear performance

This isn't one of those 'what is the character of King Lear' type questions - I have read the play! I'm doing an essay on performance variations between film and theatre and just wondered if anyone...

happy_face

fast food orders

Whenever I go to McD's, KFC etc and I just want a burger they always look at me to say "And" and then they say "Big Mac Meal?"No I don't want a friggin meal, if I had I would've asked for it. It's...

Dom Tuk

Midle aged men have to fart...

Why cant wives accept this simple fact of life. I dont fart any more than my father/uncles did when they were middleaged. I dont fart openly in public but atleast within the confines of my own...