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Loom Craze

Just watched the news about the Loom craze. Surely this is a form of French knitting from years ago in which a wooden cotton bobbin with small nails attached to the end was used to thread wool through...
08:06 Mon 30th Jun 201432 answers, last by andres 19:23 Mon 30th Jun 2014
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I Think This Is A Scam.

I was phoned yesterday by a man with an indian accent who said he was from Virgin Media. After a few seconds he asked for my password. I smelt a rat, as nobody before has phoned up wanting my details,...
14:59 Tue 25th Jun 20138 answers, last by lslowry 19:31 Tue 25th Jun 2013
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Richard 111 Burial

Looking at the local news surrounding the finding of the remains of Richard 111, all the Protestant church people are up in arms claiming that their church should be the final resting place of his...
19:00 Fri 08th Feb 201321 answers, last by askyourgran 23:34 Fri 08th Feb 2013
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will you be voting?

I have looked at the selection of candidates for the post of police commissioner for my area, and am not very impressed with any of them. My wife and i vote in every election going, but this one seems...
09:20 Sun 28th Oct 201210 answers, last by Baldric 15:38 Sun 28th Oct 2012
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mail rewards

has anyone cashed in their points for vouchers? i did it 6 weeks ago. i emailed them twice and assured they were on the way, but so far no result. If you want them for Christmas you ought to do it...
15:42 Thu 18th Oct 20121 answer, last by parkdale 15:34 Fri 19th Oct 2012
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should equestrian events be part of the Olympic Games?

Saw the dressage event today where all the effort was done by the horse with just someone in a top hat sat astride. It's the same with show jumping, the horse doing the business.
17:49 Sun 29th Jul 201232 answers, last by HowardKennitby 21:24 Sun 29th Jul 2012
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The man at Monsal Head

Some time ago i saw an elderly man being shown round at Monsal Head in the Peak district. I've only just found out who he was, none other than Duane Eddy. I can remember air guitaring to his record...
16:30 Thu 30th Jun 20113 answers, last by Sqad 08:59 Fri 01st Jul 2011
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Night jars

A good showing of nightjars in Clumber park last night, it started with a churring about 10 o'clock followed by a display of several birds. Well worth watching.
18:04 Mon 27th Jun 20116 answers, last by Garmard 20:49 Mon 27th Jun 2011
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Can't initialize mapi.log

This pops up every so often after i had a virus on my computer. I started in safe mode by pressing f8 key and used system restore to get rid of the virus, but this keeps coming up. Is there a simple...
17:58 Mon 27th Jun 20112 answers, last by lslowry 06:35 Tue 28th Jun 2011
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Another charity bag through the letterbox.

This is the fourth in ten days. Written on the plastic envelopes are dubious charities such as Help for Japan. In the small print it states that the items will be distributed in east european...
20:47 Fri 03rd Jun 20118 answers, last by denquiz 16:33 Tue 16th Aug 2011
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update to internet explorer 9

Since an update was offered and downloaded, i cannot read my emails on Virginmedia,although i can on Windows Mail. I was invited to make Internet Explorer my home page, but i'm quite happy with...
14:05 Wed 13th Apr 20116 answers, last by lslowry 14:27 Wed 13th Apr 2011
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saw a flock of waxwings today

On the way to Nottingham on the tram, in a rowan tree. What a beautiful bird! It's the first i've seen since last year, although we have had a big influx this time. Just think, they have flown here...
18:36 Sat 18th Dec 201015 answers, last by NazNomad 20:07 Sat 18th Dec 2010
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no mail for 10 days

anybody else waiting for their mail? it looks like it's a health and safety issue, the roads are ok, but the pavements are treacherous here in North Notts.
07:26 Thu 09th Dec 201021 answers, last by Dris 18:14 Thu 09th Dec 2010
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community spirit not dead!

Since we've had 2ft of snow and our road out of the estate blocked, nearly everyone on our street and the neighbouring ones has set to with shovels to clear the roads. Before this happened we didn't...
20:43 Sat 04th Dec 20103 answers, last by lslowry 20:54 Sat 04th Dec 2010
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That's it then. i've done it!

I'm 65. Does that mean i can't shout at the bloke driving in a flat cap in front at 20 in a 40 zone? Does it mean that i have to wear shoes with Velcro straps? Oh.... bvgger!! I'm OLD.
16:52 Sun 19th Sep 201037 answers, last by Butch 21:16 Sun 19th Sep 2010
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Radio codes ruling and health

Quite rightly radio codes cannot be given out because it might encourage criminal activities. If, however, you wanted information on health issues by unqualified people then this is the site. Surely a...
17:38 Fri 30th Jul 201014 answers, last by cazzz1975 18:22 Fri 30th Jul 2010
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chief constable Sue Sim

I wondered what happened to Alice Tinker in the Vicar of Dibley. She's the mouthpiece of the police in Rothbury. The hairstyle reminds me of the club in a pack of cards. What a load of gobbldeygook...
15:49 Fri 09th Jul 201014 answers, last by poodicat 21:23 Fri 09th Jul 2010
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Northumberland

I know it should be in Travel, but what the heck ,this is the best place. I'm off to stop near Lindisfarne in a couple of days for a week. Has anyone been to the Farne Islands? I've googled it and it...
17:35 Tue 01st Jun 201011 answers, last by MarkRae 19:23 Tue 01st Jun 2010
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first swift

saw my first swift of the year this morning on the way to the paper shop,Flying all that way from Africa to get here. Hard to think that these little creatures sleep on the wing, hardly ever landing....
09:03 Sun 02nd May 20103 answers, last by smurfchops 11:31 Sun 02nd May 2010
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downloading own picture for avatar

Tried to download own picture from my photo gallery using Gravatar. It let me browse my gallery and i entered it as instructed, but it gave a oops, sorry, can't do it, They are looking into it. Has...
20:38 Tue 20th Apr 201013 answers, last by lslowry 12:59 Wed 21st Apr 2010

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