Getting things ready for Mrs A's possible homecoming, I had a go at the net curtains in the bedroom - the damp bedroom. The bottom six or more inches of the nets was black-stained with wet mould....
A Musician's Wife Between the visits to the shock ward The doctors used to let you play On the old upright Baldwin Donated by a former patient Who is said to be quite stable now. And all day long you...
Amazon insist on using Hermes as their courier of choice. Why? Our local Hermes drivers are inefficient, lazy, and rude. Today I got the email from Hermes saying my parcel had been left with a...
If I need to freeze milk (semi-skimmed), what is the best way, and what are the drawbacks?
If I don't freeze some, I could buy some UHT instead.
Ideas welcomed.
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No, of course they’re not, but I’ve had at least six of these in the past week, and normally I leave them to go to answerphone but with Mrs A in hospital I HAVE to answer the landline, just in case. A...
I cant be the only person that dislikes body hair? Men shave their face Women shave their armpits/legs (I shave my head but thats irrelevant) Some of us shave other body bits. Why? I find hairy...
American Names I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost...
….according to polling for the Royal Society for Public Health. //The RSPH chief executive, Christina Marriott, said the results of the polling were highly concerning but unsurprising. “We have known...
Moved a cupboard in an unheated bedroom, wall shows dark stains from damp. I’m not moving house, so this isn’t a cover up, but I want to know what I can wipe the woodchip paper with to make it just...
Are there any Muslims here who would be interested in talking to an atheist? I'm not looking for an argument; I'd like to understand a bit about Islam.