I've recently moved and after 20 years of not living alongside a road find I'm getting disturbed by passing traffic, particularly with the ever increasing number of vehicles with aftermarket exhaust...
Mrs B had constructed two raised beds from wood, untreated, and wants to know how she can safely treat the wood before planting. She has Danish Oil in mind, but wonders if that would be safe for...
Like it or hate it? Do you have a favourite flavour or recipe? I've just started making it. White choc and cranberry is current favourite. (Yes am on the beg for ideas. This is wedding related)!...
Couple of blokes did our shed roof (new covering). Apparently, rather than using clouts on the side battens and up the middle (big roof, 12x8) they used a staple gun. Is this common nowadays, and is...
I have a new free-standing electric cooker with a double oven. The main oven has a fan but......the fan goes off when the oven has reached the set temperature and only kicks in again when the temp...
Applying for a grant from the Council entails a means test. Depending on your income and savings does anyone know what savings you are allowed. Have never done a means test before have always worked...
My Barclaycard bill didn’t arrive in March and neither did my neighbour’s. I always pay the account online but she is ninety and doesn’t have internet. She tried to ring Barclaycard but...
''Do not unplug the USB connection until the process is complete ''
The above has appeared on mobile phone - when phone was plugged in to charge battery
What is Firmware update ?...
That I should not lose anymore weight by a close girlfriend. Apparently I am beginning to look old and haggard! Another friend has mentioned that it is because first friend is concerned that she will...
Its with regret that the investigation into the sausage as had to be abandoned for the time being. The first sausage hit the pan at 8.40am, by 8.43am there were numerous explosions within the pan...
The machine is working but as the cable enters the machine the "plug" that holds it in place has come adrift and I now have exposed live,neutral wires that have slipped out of their sheath. I have...
have [i]they[i] made a product to cook a steak (preferable two) on it's side? almost like book ends but for steak.. I ping me tongs around em but it does em in...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6839231/Border-Force-officials-intercept-boat-migrants-three-days.html I agree with this reader's view. /// Border Force are just acting like a boat taxi...
To make a desk top and some shelves to make a small dressing room into an office. Don't have too much money so the wood needs to be a finished product that doesn't need any treatment such as painting....
Hi, I have those old tap tops where you prise off the lid and undo the screw to lift the top off. I have a tap reviver kit. The cold tap top came off easily. The hot tap top seems to be welded, it...
I have about £3.000 to spend on a holiday for a family of 4. My daughter is leaning Spanish so we were thinking of a Spanish island or southern Spain with a trip to Morocco. Any ideas with in our...
Our television keeps turning itself off.only started this evening. When it turns itself on again a little globe appears in top left corner and then it goes off. Couod we have pushed something we...
...but i dont!! I dont like lettuce etc on my sandwiches & I dont enjoy raw veg! I love any cooked veg. Trying to be healthier - does anyone have any nice salads that I could try? Even ones that mix...
