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Beef Mince Alternative

Has anyone tried Quorn mince? Is it actually nice? Some quorn products are nice others are quite frankly.. grim. Has anyone tried turkey mince? Is it similar to beef mince? Would it go nice in a...

soliloquy

Emmerdale

Have you noticed how many times in almost every episode, the word "sorry" is spoken?...

moggie 939

Bletchley Circle San Francisco Last Week. Help With Song Please.

At the end of episode 2 a song was in the background - something like...…….gold cup? Anyone know the title and who sung it please? Thank you...

horselady

My daughter has for the last 3 years been employed as a carer looking after a lady in her 20s with severe learning difficulties. This morning the employer, the young woman's mother, phoned and told my...

thesshhh

Annoying Ads

Anyone else can’t stand the TV adverts with the women nodding to the music in the car (Vauxhall, I think) and the telephonist warning people not to reveal their PIN numbers? These ads are on telly...

gness

I Have Decided To Be Nocturnal...

...I can do most things at night and sleep in the day..... If anyone else is up look at the sky....the moon and clouds are just stunning....I am gardening.....x...

maggiebee

Remembering

How long does it take to forget a loved one? 10 years, 20 years or maybe never You would have been 51 today, but I was only loaned you for 5 Sleep tight little one til we meet again...

ToraToraTora

Another One Who Should Not Have Been Allowed To Reproduce!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44924264...

DeeLicious

Half Term Dates

what are the half term dates in uk schools for this coming autumn term?

anotheoldgit

Stay Out Of The Sun Until Friday! Met Office Issues Amber Heatwave Alert Warning People Not To Go Outdoors, Draw Curtains And Keep Windows Shut As 'mediterranean Melt' Sends Temperatures Soaring To 101F

Oh dear, oh dear!!! how do we Brits manage 2 weeks in the sun abroad, when we have got to take such precautions for just 5 days here at home?

gness

Simple Pleasures... :-)

A bottle of red....a lovely companion and sitting together on the patio in the evening watching three hedgehogs...one slightly doolally.....a frog playing in dried leaves and the space station...

weecalf

When Out And About .

When out and about do you notice people will talk out loud to children so as to be over heard .Like come on hurry or else the travel agent will be closed and we won’t get to book that holiday .No...

bainbrig

Peanuts In The 1950S

Older ABers - do you have any recollections of peanuts in the 50s? I remember freshly-roasted peanuts for 6d a bag in Romford Market, and horrible peanuts & raisins covered in soapy chocolate. B...

Barmaid

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes?"

Prompted by another thread little ones have a real knack of saying exactly what they think making their parents wish for a hole to open up beneath them. When I was very small we were at the village...

shivvy

Tiny Black Flies That Look Like Fleas When Landed

For the last week or so I have noticed little black bugs appearing at dusk. They look very like fleas but they seem to sprout wings from under their bodies and can fly. Has anyone got any idea what...

10ClarionSt

Another "substance" In Wiltshire.

A couple of people were taken to hospital in Wiltshire last Saturday after being "exposed to a substance", according to the radio this morning. Wiltshire? Porton Down? Chemicals? Those Ruskies have...

Zacs-Master

Disturbing Or Funny

Just seen a tweet from Wetherspoons which reads: ‘As temperatures continue to soar please remember to leave a window slightly opened if you are leaving your kids in the car while you come in for...