... for your Evening Meal (I hesitate to start the tea/dinner/supper debate again). Dave's Gourmet Dinners has dished up : Poached Salmon (frozen but v v good - Aldi) Peas (frozen and v v ordinary -...
What is it with modern toilet cisterns?? Old ones used to 'just work' forever - I suppose a 3d washer change might have been needed every 20 years or so. I've now had to fix my 'modern style' one...
No specific link, but I think this fits better in News than CB. We are apparently facing (yet again) "The greatest threat to the UK in living memory". Putting aside the short length of some memories...
... or I have upset someone and they have set the leprechauns on me. It was going to be a quiet break in Lisbon - visiting the (all grown-up) daughter of some old friends, doing a bit of sight-seeing...
... can you name one? We've had a lot of plastic politicos on our screens during the referendum debates - Salmond was (probably) the worst, but there have been some real horrors of trimming,...
New edition out today - some very interesting articles (the Weather Club is part of the Royal Meteorological Society) :
http://www.theweatherclub.org.uk/twc_news72014.pdf
sunny dave :)...
... salt on a meal without tasting it? Just had a really good meal in a French Brasserie - on my own, so lots of time for 'people watching'. Was amazed just how many people sprinkle salt all over...
I've just changed cars - after 15 years and three consecutive Saab Aero Estates it was a difficult choice to make. Made a list of my criteria - must-haves, nice-to-haves and definitely-must-not-haves....
The first straw in the wind : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29038804 Successive Governments have bottled out of commissioning new Nuclear Power Stations, which are the only feasible answer to...
I live in the countryside - it's dark at night (that's sort of how it should be, I think). There are a couple of old/inefficient street lamps along my bit of road (which has a 30mph limit signed). The...
"And the final question to win the £100 is : "The title of Take That's first album consisted of four words, the first two words were "Take That". What other two words complete the title?" There was a...
... an Audi Q5 with the mad nutter 225bhp petrol turbo engine.
Can someone tell me whether my ownership documents to the road network will come with the car, or do I have to fill a form in first?...
I have just had a Postcard from Gness : a real one, with a picture on it - just like in the olden days ... I initially thought it might have been from an imposter, because the message begins :...
Went with a few friends to The Wistow Maize Maze today - I confess to not exactly being over the moon about the prospect, but had nothing better to do ... ... how wrong could I be - it is just...