don't seem to mean anything. Like 'in this day and age' - why not just 'these days'? or 'horses for courses' or 'at this moment in time' . 'To tell the truth' - does that mean they don't always, so...
A day or two before christmas on our local itv news a reporter was at a shop. there was a man looking ironing board covers for a present for his wife. The female reporter suggested not to get them but...
I hear on the news there is a suggestion that we should all be 'invited' to make a donation to charity whenever we withdraw money from a cash machine, also possibly when making tax returns. According...
I saw the funniest thing last week when I went to the post office to pick up a parcel. The guy behind the counter could only hold my parcel at arms lengths using only the tips of his finger. The...
Answers begin with the letter given: H - said to be brought by a bluebird P - short of breath to act without a script (thinking puffin) Q - your one of these if you're doing one of these! ( thinking...
Three of my favourite films are on TV today; Cromwell, Zulu and Dr Zhivago, and they all overlap. Typical. You wait ages for a film and then three arrive together!
I was scooping some Wall's vanilla ice-cream from a long block for my son today and I was telling how when I was his age, they used to sell individually wrapped vanilla ice-cream rectangles (shaped a...
I've waited in all day for a delivery which still hasn't arrived, doesn't look likely now, grrrr! To top it all off, tv is crap during this period between crimbo and new year..
It's a grey and gloomy day here in Dover...... I have to go to the dentist later, and someone has put up a tent in our back garden ready for our New Year Party!
Has anyone experienced the following with their young children : My son has just turned 3 yrs old and for the past 12 months (give or take the odd night), he will get up anytime between 1-4am and come...
best quote I have read so far ... (shamelessly lifted from the BBC website) ... From Hugh, 23, Wales: "My old man just informed me 'the last time this happened, you were being conceived'. Just...
If a stranger came up to you and asked you if you were a "Pisces" or other starsign, what would you think? Let's say they came up to you as a customer and asked. Would you think they were...
1. Lots of surging waves on the Shore - I hear 2. 1960's Steve Winwood rock band 3. East London football team, not together and missing their direction -I hear 4. With a rope pull the drizzle -...