Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken wall at 10 Downing Street - one from London , another from Bristol and the third, Liverpool . They go with a government official to examine the wall. The...
I was playing silly buggers with my step son earlier. Somehow my ring finger on my left hand got bent back at the joint nearest the tip. I cannot now move it. it is hugely swollen (i am dipping it in...
we didn't get to go home today as planned, Mercia is still in hospital, and i'm afraid to say it looks like she'll be in for a while, she's very poorly. The knee she had the operation on (she had a...
yesterday morning. (It's all right Cara, honest) Had a right good giggle before I went out. During my enquiries and handing in various forms, all was good news. If I get excited tomorrow morning I...
We've got an update which counts the number of characters typed into a post. This should stop some of the "my post was cut off" frustration. It requires a bit of downtime - 1 Hour to be...
What happened to you that hurt ... a lot? (don't join in this thread if you are squeamish) I ask this because apparently chuck rode a motorbike into a fence ... more details to follow? ... and that...
I rashly bought a whole duck - well it seemed like a good idea at the time - and have now realised that I don't know which vegetables would go well with it (roasted) and also how to make a gravy/sauce...
I can't sleep, hence my posting at this hour. My elderly cat that I have had since a kitten is very frail, unstable, weak, incontinent and no longer 'with it'. This deterioration has escalated...
I was thinking earlier about the above. What have you ever done to wind up someone? Big Sis loves to do things properly and once asked me if I knew the Phonetic Alphabet. I dutifully typed it out for...
I want to send an email in Portuguese, can anyone recommend a site where I could do this in English then do a translation and then copy and paste it to an email? I use Windows Mail and it doesn't seem...
The US is to announce it is withdrawing from Afghanistan. It is hardly mission accomplished. Not quite as bad as Vietnam, but there is a hint of running away hurt. And the UK's objectives have not...
So today was my daughter's birthday and for the 5th year in a row (since before mr mac and I got married), they neglected to send as much as a card. Previously they have used the excuse that they...