If you have a consumer unit with circuit breakers, do you still have to use a shaving socket for shaving, or can you just use a European adaptor and a standard outlet?
I have just jumped out of my seat as a series of rumbles occurred and it sounded like something was falling down the chimney onto the metal plate at the back of our inbuilt gas fire. I've been outside...
This question attracted very much interest when posted earlier. It has now been reported that a millionaire is to fund legal services on behalf of the Grandparent. Peter Hitchins sums the whole matter...
some attempted to fine me for picking someone up from the "dropoff zone" at stanstead airport, claiming very vigorously that it was "LAW". he backed down real fast...
I'm in London, and pretty much everything ground to a halt this morning. My question is this - how many AB'ers managed to get to work, how many tried and were forced to go back home, and how many...
I have a tapping sound coming from my 3 way valve. I have changed the body and head and it is still there. I have TRVs all round and the system runs with a pressure relase bypass. I can vary the sound...
An absolute disgrace http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-113006 6/They-say-old-care-grandchildren-Social-worke rs-hand-brother-sister-gay-men-adoption.html - and it's not just the Mail, it's being...
My neighbour has a noisy central heating boiler (which I think is a combi boiler). It sounds like a small aeroplane flying in the distance (or like a pre-war aeroplane). What could be wrong with it to...
I was driving back from Twickenham yesterday, didn't hear anything till I was coming into my village. I hear a high pitched whooshing sound coming what seems like the back drivers side wheel. To me it...
Why is the period of the moon's rotation exactly the same as the time it takes to orbit the earth? I've been given to understand that no other moon in the solar system does this, so what's so special...
My husband was driving my car last night and was flashed by a speed camera. I realise it will probably be ?60 and 3 penalty points but how much extra do insurance companies charge on the car...
i have a strip light and i want to know the diameter with out taking it of the celing...i know the circumference which is 3 inches but dont know how to get the distance from one side to the other......
A lorry with a sealed load of birds is making a short journey, the driver encounters a steep hill ,when half way up realises he is not going to make it due to the weight of the birds, he has the...
A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God". Ron Heather, from Southampton, Hampshire, responded with "shock" and "horror" at the...
Does anyone agree that the pilot who managed to land that stricken aeroplane yesterday , given the circumstances ,without anyone being killed , is a hero ?