I'm 35 years old and have never ended a relationship. The endings have always been mutual agreements or I've been jilted. However, my partner of five months has arranged Christmas festivities abroad...
I've been given a copy of The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler. (She wrote it, she didn't give it to me) The cover makes it look like a WWII romance and I'm dreading a pseudo Mills & Boon pap fest....
When I was little in the 1970's, there was a lead singer in a band who always wore a black and white hooped shirt, while the guitarist had a painted face like a clown. Can anyone tell me who they...
My daughters would like a kitten for Christmas. As my younger girl is now six, I believe they are old enough to be responsible and caring, but where's the best place to buy a kitten? Would you...
I've recently embarrassed myself on this site and it's got me thinking. Why do humans get embarrassed? Is it a purely social condition, or is there some deep anthropological/genetic/instinctive reason...
One of my daughters' saw the statue of Boudicca today on a trip to London and she's just asked me the name of the blades projecting from the wheels of her chariot. Does anyone know if they do have a...
On walking my children to school this morning, my elder girl(9) asked if she could carry a donor card like mine. I bit my lip and pretended I was concentrating on my answer, but really I was holding...
I've just read on the BBC website that Babar Ahmad, a British citizen, may be extradited to the US under the terms of the ExtraditionTreaty of 2003, but I can't understand why. If he is being accused...
Does anyone agree that setting the drama in a top restaurant in modern times just didn't work? I loved the actors' performances, but the number of killings seemed so unrealistic in a modern setting...
'Time passes and I lie here alone.' My partner has sent me flowers from abroad. I suspect the attached message was from a poem. Does anyone know which one and who wrote it?
I would like to start downloading music to my computer and would appreciate some advice on sites to use or avoid. I'm not interested in illegal downloads, 'cos I'm a good girl, I am!
My six year old attends an all girls' school and is refusing to play the Angel Gabriel in the forthcoming nativity play, protesting; 'It's a boy's part! I played a boy last year! (King) I want to be a...
My mum is desperate to get hold of a copy of a reggae song she listened to on Radio 1 in the late 70's. It was sung by two girls and she doesn't remember them having another hit. Apparently, it got to...
I think the idea of celebrities raising money for children is wonderful, but I'm concerned the BBC's format has become jaded and groaned audibly when I saw it was on next Friday. I'm fed up watching...
If anyone ever mentions club bouncers, my father always asks, 'Was his name Benny?' and then winks. He refuses to tell me what he means and it's driving me potty. I would really like to know if this...
Can anyone tell me the name of the law that has put males before females in the line of succession for the English crown? I think that should be British crown, but it's probably even more complicated...