I'm full of cold and struggling this week (well, that's my excuse!) 1A Devil (9) 17A Hell, Hades(6,7) 1D An unaccpted Cathold leader (8) 3D One who interprets literally (14) 8D Divination (6) 19D...
Mr Brik, bless him, has told me he is taking me on a day trip to Norway to see killer whales and aurora borealis (Northern Lights.) The brochure says the whales are pretty much guaranteed in November....
In the pub at the weekend we discussed those little brown bottles fastened to a bandolier that all pubs seemed to sell at one time. Were they called Underberg? I seem to remember it was pretty...
Twice this year I've had to pay to have seagulls nests removed from the roof of the dormer window in my bedroom. My next door neighbour did the same and had some of those spike strips fitted but the...
A friend of mine has asked me for advice and this one has me stumped. She is late 40's and a single parent and is in (non sexual) relationships with two men. One worships the ground she walks on and...
Next week I've got a couple coming to our house for a meal. They're not posh or anything but they are real foodies so I want to impress. I'm not after actual recipes (I can cook & have a zillion...
This will sound naff but I'm going to a 50th birthday party soon and all the guests have to go as an old singer AND sing one of their songs. I am going as Marianne Faithfull and have been learning the...
A discussion in the pub between friends raised this question. We are a group of forty somethings and we all agreed that the worst drivers in the world are old men who wear hats. What do you think?
There is a TV programme that was originally called Seven Up and was about a group of 7 yr old kids from different backgrounds. The programme is shown every 7 years - the 2nd one was called Fourteen...
Any ideas on how to remove dried black gloss paint from a white UPVC door? The man who did my exterior decorating was a bit slap dash and has left four biggish streaks on the door. I've had a go...
One or two hair stories crept into Your Mother Made You Wear WHAT, so let's have a laugh with some bad hair tales. Mine is a toss up between my Twink home perms of the 80's cos I wanted...
This one is for my sister in law. Her beautiful back lawn now looks more like a battlefield in the Somme as a family of badgers have trashed it. I know they are protected animals so is there any...
A couple I've known for years have a new baby AND an 11 month old baby. The mother has post natal depression and is on medication. I said I would help them in any way I could. I'm currently off work...