No link as they seem to want to keep it low profile but it looks like Sainsburys have taken the decision not to sell fireworks this year. If you or someone you know are affected by the constant...
. . . a cowboy or simply 'unseated'? Those are the categories (for scores of 7, 4 to 6 and 1 to 3 respectively) in this week's BBC Quiz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-50055765 I've been 'unseated'...
Interesting programme on Charlotte Church, her mother and stepfather tonight. Goes to show they are of course human like everyone else and, no matter how much success and money you get, it doesn’t...
Not a question - just a curiosity for the curious. A yellow organism, which looks like fungus but acts like an animal, has gone on display at a Paris zoo. Unfortunately they don't say where it was...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50077384 //Mrs Ellman, who is Jewish, has been a party member for 55 years but said she "can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming...
The UN's figures are sobering: https://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html However, is there now hope that once the UK enters its prosperous post-Brexit future that it will crawl up from the bottom...
.....how to find out who owns undeveloped land which is described as "unnamed land and garage site to the rear of No's 13 to 25 (street name)"? Would the Land Registry have the information? Any help...
When I dropped my partners script of a surgery today, asked if Jen could have Pneumonia jab, receptionist said no without an appointment which was a week away for an assessment, so rang surgery from...
Just watched a few minutes on a history channel, of German soldiers shooting Jewish men, women and children, under the command of Heinrich Himmler. It said he had never seen a dead body, and went to...
This little doggy is not going to have a mommy to play with on Christmas day, poor little thing. thinking about getting in touch with the R.S.P.C.A :0(
O Flower of Scotland, When will we see Your like again, That fought and died for, Your wee bit of Yokohoma, Japan, And you stood against them, Proud Samurai-san, They sent you homeward, To think...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7565499/Victorian-priest-poet-Cardinal-Newman-canonised-historic-ceremony-Vatican.html You'd like to think, in 2019, that people had grown-up and realised what...
when you wait in for someone and they don't turn up.? The appointment was made over the phone and they didn't give me a number so I can't phone to complain. Grrrr.
We all of us have our foibles and he’s no different, I still remember using SO when I first came back on AB, AH castigated me but in a friendly way and we laughed about it, seems to me the man gets...
Was interviewed yrs ago (recorded), now I have to fill out security forms for work. Not sure if the interview is considered a caution which I will have to note on the forms. The matter in question...
...just to clarify your comment in the thread below; Andy Hughes is not the longest serving member of this site. I joined it 9 months before him. However, I'm sure there are longer serving members. I...
