https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/PLNMqvmycN/conjoined-twins a magnificent achievement by the NHS surgeons. As recent customer myself I am eternally grateful to our civilised approach to health care....
Following on from the replies on another thread... Does education prevent addictions? Educate all you want. We all know that Drinking rots the liver, Smoking rots the lungs, Drugs rot everything,...
Hi guys and girls, I have another question I need advice on :). Last night we had made plans that we would go swimming then go on a picnic afterwards because they were well behaved last week. However,...
We're having slow-cooked leg of lamb, roasties, spring greens, peas, carrots, broccoli, green beans, creamed spinach and celeriac purée with lashings of homemade gravy. There's Aldi Pinot Gris and...
My son and daughter in law have been renting a house for some 14 years. Yesterday they had an email from the Landlords agent saying the landlord wants to sell the property, and they will discuss...
. . . which, according the assessment at the end of the quiz, makes me 'clumsy', rather than 'inept'. (I think my metalwork teacher at school would have preferred to use [i]both[i] adjectives to...
It's been a long time,in fact it's been almost 8 years since I was on AB, I've given the new ED my word that any controversy I'm caught up in I'll step away from, Life's been pretty good all told,...
?? Is there really a point to it other than religious? Or is it a legal issue? Just never understood the idea of marriage. Don't mean to be divisive or anything, just don't understand the idea of...
I am wearing black trousers or a skirt, but I am not sure what to wear on top as its warm, I dont want it to be to garish and colourful, but at the same time I dont want to be in all black, any...
Just listening to an interview by Sarah Montague on The World at One, in which she intoned... "GCHQ ..." blah blah. Pronouncing the third letter as HAITCH! What is the world (at one) coming to when...
I am writing my thank you letters this weekend. AB deserves a thank you. I had a load of good ideas, advice and lovely wishes from AB members for my wedding on 22 June. Thank you all. The day was...