My wife and I are planning to visit Australia next year for a month (26 days in country). We want to visit Sydney, Brisbane/Gold Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania. I've been told the drive from...
Any quick and easy way to get rid of ground elder ? We have roses and one or two other flowers in the same space so maybe Round-Up would harm them if we try it - also the wee plot is gravelled over so...
My friend's grandparents are coming to England next week. They are Polish. I went to Poland last year and was treated royally by them. They had a summer cottage, not far from a lake, which had plenty...
I was chatting to someone the other day who said that skimmed milk is a bit of a con as, although it is lower in fat than semi-skimmed milk, they ramp up the sugar content to make it taste better. I...
'm sure this subject has come up before, but haven't seen... why is it that taxi drivers, hairdressers and restauants in particular seem to expect a tip? I understand if someone has done a good...
I have a sliding greenhouse door which sticks when I open and close it. I can't see what it's sticking on to. It's a light door for an aluminium frame greenhouse, I've already broken two panes of...
Just a curiosity question really. I saw someone the other day who had black fingertips down to just under the nail bed and all round the finger - not sure about the nails as they had varnish on....
I don't usually come on here but some of you will know me from Q&P Just wanted to share some happy news. My beautiful granddaughter has just presented me with my first great granddaughter She is, of...
Can any of you expert fitness people work out an approximate equivalent for those rainy days when I would rather not do my usual walk? I walk around a local loch which is approximately two...
Having replaced carpet with laminate flooring in through lounge/dining room, how do you deal with the resulting 'echoing' in the room? This was an unexpected side effect of losing the carpet. If you...
As above, is there a way to encourage birds into my garden? I sat outside early this morning with a cuppa, and could hear the birds tweeting away, but couldn't see even one. I've bought those little...
pouring macaronni at the sink and the lid moved and i lost half the macca,just as well i'm dining on my own or there would not have been eneugh.i done that once before with spaghetti and i had guests...
Just wondering how many of you have a TV in the bedroom, I refuse to have one in mine and wouldn't allow my children one in theirs until they could buy one for themselves. Daughter who is still at...
My parents lost two of their chickens on the weekend, to Mr Fox. They have a large section of the garden, which is fenced off and surrounded with chicken wire, but he somehow managed to get in - in...
I very stupidly clicked on Yes without thinking and I've now lost 20 pages of saved work and left with one page which is next to useless! This is in Windows 7 in Word 2002. It asked me if the new...
I have got a heavy cold, and been keeping my nose clear using toilet paper.
my neighbour tells me not to use that method as toilet paper is coated with a treatment that could be toxic...