It's my son's birthday next week and he's asked me to make a Black Forest Gateau (God knows where he got the idea from), anyway do you think the tins of cherry pie filling would suffice as a filling...
I find I can't move up and down the spreadsheet I'm working on using the up/down left/right keys, the whole text moves but the highlight stays in the same cell. What have I done and how can I rectify...
What's your favorite childhood memory ?. Mine is getting an old lorry inner tube and repairing it with my bicycle repair kit, inflating it at the local garage then putting an onion sack inside it....
The BBC news changes to the local news ( in my case look north ) every half an hour in the morning. Then the local news woman starts with something like " it's going to be a windy day with showers,...
This missing airliner is puzzling me somewhat. The area that it was flying is a busy place, air-traffic wise. How can it disappear from the radars of the various Air Traffic Controls that it was...
In the lane where we live, we regularly see pheasants. Since the heavy rain we have noticed a large bird which, in outline, looks like an adult pheasant, but it is jet black with a red head. Does...
Just watching One Born Every Minute where the young girl, 18, has her dad in the delivery room, she has the baby's father also but not sure I would want my dad in the room while giving birth would...
so many, so little to choose from, i am bored senseless by the tv trivia that's on, i confess that i have almost stopped watching tv, and resort to the ever dependable old films, a few class dvd drama...
Is it just my imagination or are there far more Snowdrops around this year and seem to be lasting longer. I can't remember seeing as many in previous years. Something to do with all this rain maybe....
For some reason or other the water in our upstairs toilet is slightly reducing below the normal level. This, in itself is not a problem as it flushes fine, but it leaves a fairly noticeable lime scale...
DO you have totally irrational quirks? We've just had the usual Sat exchange of words about the state of the newspaper, he makes such a mess of it, the corners don't line up, I can't start the...
I am a very early riser and am up hours before Mr O. When he finally surfaces he always lovingly asks how I am and how I slept. My reply is usually "fine, thanks." I then ask him the same question,...
After several incidents of raw food being served, esp chicken, cat food served as paté, weird salads and all the rest, I have completely taken over the cooking from the mater. However, I now have a...
Just booked a flight online with monarch, filled the form in, but got a message saying payment pending, contact us. is this typical? I can see me having to make a very expensive phonecall : (