He just read that actor Ronald Pickup has died aged 80. Not an actor I knew very well but enjoyed the part he played in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Believe he has also been in The Crown (which I...
Eating in the Fifties. Takeaway was an arithmetic operation. Pizza was something to do with a Leaning Tower. All crisps were plain, the only choice being whether to add the enclosed salt. A Chinese...
In the upstairs bathroom earlier, when the window flew wide open! It's bowing a gale here. I got off toilet and crawled across floor, sneakily & quickly and shut the darn window! There are houses to...
The answer to this is probably simple but as I've not done it before I need advice. How do people upload actual photographs (ie old style printed from film) to websites? Anything I've ever scanned has...
While Line of Duty is still, in my, view at the top of the list have been watching Above Suspicion (Lynda La Plante TV 2009-2012). All episodes on You Tube, quite superb.
After last week's triumph, I'm back down a bit closer to normality this week. I got the first two wrong with the adult quiz but then got all FIVE right after that:...
im having a really bad day with my back - its making me want to cry - and i very rarely cry with pain I have naproxen and lansoprazole to protect my stomach but a couple of hours ago took ibuprofen...
A young woman was preparing for her wedding. She asked her mother to go out and buy a nice long black negligee and carefully place it in her suitcase so it would not wrinkle. Mom forgot until the last...
So......do you make pancakes regularly or just occasionally and if so what's your choice of filling? I know it gets asked on AB every year but hey, does it matter? You may have discovered a new...
I have been puzzled by the variety of house styles in Stretford, Gorse Hill and Urmston located in Manchester. Did a Corporation planning committee come up with the type of houses needed and how many...
An old man went to the college that he went to when he was a youth. He knocked on room number 3 of the hostel and said: "May I come in. I lived in this very room forty years ago when I studied in this...
Just had a new fan put in one of the ovens and had my card ready to pay when the repair man asked for cash or a cheque. Had to go upstairs and look through the files to see if I still had a chequebook...
