Do the bookies, here or elsewhere (Italy, obviously) actually take bets on it i.e. number of days/votes before we see the white smoke?
Or is it considered a bit of a faux pas?...
At the end of this year the gates will be opened yet again, the influx of Romanians / Bulgarians seeking work / houses/ medical care etc, with the amount of persons out of work now in the UK, If...
I come from London and mum is, well, Mum, I've noticed on posts recently that some are writing mom even though I'm fairly certain they're in the UK. Is this an americanism or do some parts of the...
Why don't you start a conversation with a complete stranger - nothing too freaky or weird just about something light like the weather or last nights TV or the traffic if your on the bus - see where it...
I went out last night and had the worst Indian meal I've ever eaten (or not eaten in this case) and drank a prodigious amount of wine and stayed up until gone three this morning. Today I still have a...
I am a member of a running site and usually have no trouble signing in. Today, however, I cannot sign in. So I changed my password, still won't let me access site. So I used a different email address...
Hi, I've noticed that a few of my friends are writing 'am' to start a sentence e.g. "Am having a good time" or "Am just leaving work now" Is this grammatically correct?? It doesn't sound or look...
Sometimes one comes unexpectedly upon a book that you had thought lost for ever. I moved schools when I was 9 and therefore missed out on the ending of what was a very exciting story that was being...
An event on a soap this week was the topic of conversation for OH, others and myself this week. In 'Eastenders' a family decided to scatter the ashes of a newly departed relative in what appeared to...
While having dinner with friends yesterday we got onto the subject of books we've read of late. My host told me about a biography he had read of George Sith. I sat there waiting for the lightbulb to...
We have been working on this puzzle and think I may have missed something obvious but can't see what it might be. The link to it is as follows and it works:...
Why is it becoming increasingly common for people to hold their knife like a pencil? How do they actually cut anything like that? Were they not taught any table manners?
could not find suitable category for this so hope someone can help on here -we have a couple of hens that lay pale blue eggs and I would like to decorate them and keep them - so I need to get the...
