This morning, as I was driving to work a huge militiary aircraft flew overhead - made me duck! I've just heard another one and wondered what occuring? Does anyone know how to find out what they were...
I'm watching a programme on Channel 4 about the dismantling of Camp Bastion. Its interesting but the scale of it and the cost of it is overwhelming.
Making me mad now. Anyone else watching?...
We had a discussion on here a couple of months ago about how the Marbles should be given back to Greece. Now despite saying they'd never travel, we've lent one to Russia; what ever next? Surely its...
In the spring I bought one of these rechargeable emergncy torches but now I'm having trouble with it. The idea is it sits in the cradle on charge and emits a night light. In a power cut it you can...
We went to see the poppies at the Tower of London today; it was most beautiful.
Do go if you can, there's just 7 days to go and you won't regret it.
Who else has been?...
We're going on a day trip to see the poppies at the Tower of London next week. We'll have 3/4 hours there and wonder if anyone has any suggestions for a little soemthing to see or do closeby. We've...
I had no broadband connection over the weekend and being a BT customer, I reported in and was diagnosed with a faulty hub. A new one (BT hub 3) is on its way. In the meantime a friend has given me a...
Are there any - Attending the Hairdresser- beginner classes about? No matter how often I go I still cannot grasp the lingo! I seem unable to describe what i want, unable to get any ideas from them and...
I need to supply the UDID for my ipad in order to participate in some beta testing. The instructions to find the UDID, and everything similar online, tells me to connect my ipad to my mac and launch...
I last had the flu in 1986. I'm in my early 50's and thankfully no medical conditions to speak of. Every year the increased media coverage about the flu jab makes me wonder whether to wander into a...
To help celebrate today's birthdays and to cheer us all up, how about a party game. Its called the Five letter Game. Here are 5 letters, you make a sentence where each word begins with each initial....
Not for the first time I'm heading off on holiday feeling very under the weather. I'm rarely affected by colds or bugs, but just as I wind down for a long awaited break I seem to catch a good 'un. Is...
News of the planned port blockade by truckers seems very quiet today. I was feeling very supportive of them struggling to cross the channel without taking on extra passengers. Does any one know if it...
I have a very sore throat, ear ache and it hurts to swallow. After two days of agony and approaching the weekend I called into the doctors this morning. The GP identified a swollen tonsil and...