This is a long shot but here goes! Heard a song just after Starbucks opened in Glasgow Airport one morning at about 6.00am whist waiting for my Flat White, so no sleep, in that weird pre-flight...
I'm fortunate enough to be in the NHS pension scheme (one of the few perks of working for the NHS!) and because I am one of the special classes I can retire on full pension age 55 (which is nice!) I...
Hi I've just started making some raspberry wine. I have 22lbs of rasps and had frozen them. I was just defrosting them in a 5 gall bin and chucked in 4 crushed campden tablets. I left this for a...
Back in the '80's me and my friends used rather fond of this particular spray on deoderant. (yes I know how lame this sounds!) Does anyone know if it is still available anywhere so that we can go...
I seem to remember a few months back seeing an ad on SKY TV for a new channel which would be devoted to classic (if you're 35-45 ish) kids TV such as Ivor The engine, Noggin the Nog etc. Did I dream...
Hi folks My acer (japanese maple is starting to look a bit sorry and curl up yellow at the edge of the leaves. Its a small, young tree, only in a couple of weeks and our soil is clay. A friend...
Hi there Our cherry tree mysteriously died 2 years back. This weekend I plan to dig it out and plant another tree (probably a smaller acer this time) My concern is: could whatever killed the cherry...
Tonight (sun 31/8 on that Ray Mears survival prob on BBC there were snippits of a haunting flute melody I've heard several times before (possibly covered by The Chieftains? 4 ascending notes followed...
I know it's their nature and all that but our year old female cat is single handedly trying to wipe out the local population of small birds here. We quite like the little fellas and wondered if anyone...
Around 1984 every night at 3.00am the DJ on Luxembourg would close with a depressing existentialist acoustic dirge (male singer) 'Oh and it's a long lonely road we travel on, don't know where we're...