I get Xmas week off work but go in midweek...just for the morning... to collect from our supermarket collection points, to take the strain off the following new year week. Had a guy come up to me (and...
Clacton beach, Christmas Day: Rough seas, a bitterly cold wind and driving rain. So, obviously, it's time for . . . https://i.postimg.cc/xTmqzGwb/DSC01882.jpg...
... on Netflix or Prime that is exciting. An adventure film that keeps you glued to your seat. Nothing to do with Christmas. I spent ages looking for one that we haven't watched. Nothing christmassy...
Every Christmas Eve a Polish dad in the village dressed up as Santa and brought a sack of presents to his children. The children have now started to question why daddy's not in the house when Santa...
I know we've had a bit of a run on such questions regarding the festive period, but something I heard on the radio prompts this extra one. We might get a few comic responses :-D The radio quote goes,...
Which TV comedy sketch from the 1970's involves pall bearers crossing a road carrying a coffin. A mini cooper drives through and the coffin gets caught up on the roof. Later the pall bearers run ahead...
I've decided to re-watch season one before season two. Someone said that there was a lengthy recap but I feel I need to see it again. Does anyone else re-watch dramas before watching the next series?...
My one 'regular' thread, posted annually to remember those no longer with us, and to invite everyone else to add their own favourite Christmas songs, their greetings, their memories, and their...
Have two, sisters, aged 5 months next week, and they are nuts! I’ve had cats almost all my life but never like this. It sounds funny, but hours and hours of it every day……. They are cute, funny, sleep...
//J. K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame has once again ridden valiantly into the gender wars — this time to object to Police Scotland’s policy of recording rapes as being committed by women, should the...
I've posted this link on another thread but I thought it worthy of wider exposure, so I'll repost it here: https://www.momjunction.com/articles/ugly-and-dumb-baby-names_00393862/ Those names are,...
as in Book. etc etc if said in a Corrie Street type of way, where the lips are pursed to say the word, made me wonder if them what speak that dialect are the country's greatest kissers? Or would that...
I know this may sound like a strange question, but are there things that we 'celebrate' in this county that they don't celebrate in other countries for instance. Do other countries have November the...
Good for Royal Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10304589/Knackered-postman-filmed-leaving-frail-pensioner-72-sacked-Royal-Mail.html Took a while for the news to come out, this happened...
