My "garden" consists of a few chilli plants on my kitchen shelf. I noticed that one plant is crawling with tiny wingless aphids, and they will no doubt spread to the other plants. I can't think what I...
One large window box and three large flower pots have disappeared from my bedroom window sill. My window is 60ft up, and ther is no trace of them on the ground outside. Was it very windy yesterday, or...
My girlfriend has am Australian passport although she has lived in the UK for almost all her life so far. She is going off to work in Auckland for six months+ and it seems she can stay indefinately...
I was in Leeds at the weekend, my friend lives in a street where all the other streets in the immediate area are named the same. Is this peculiar to Leeds? Ten streets all called Harold something, is...
If I buy an Ornge Sim card will I be able to use it in my Vodafone-bought Motorola and will I be able to request to change my phone number to the new Orange Sim card?
I had this wonderful dark, hoppy ale in a pub in Bath at the weekend, does anyone know if this is a West Country brew or not? Google gives me two types, one is Scottish. Any ideas?
The song about the Vietnam vet who is wheelchairbound and tries to ask his wife to stop going in to town etc. It's a very stripped down kind of song. any ideas?
Apparently Guillemotts have been quite badly affected by the MSC Napoli beaching, there have been sightings of a container load of their first EP washed up, From The Cliffs.
How does the publicity machine work within the music press? Take this scenario: David Bowie releases a new album, the record company will promote the product in every conceivable way possible at an...
Those plastic owls or birds of prey you can use to stop pigeons from perching on - in my case, the pipes on the outside of my house, do they work? Are they an effective deterant? thanks