For 35 years I was up at 4.30am for the early shift. When I retired I new it would take time to adjust. Five years on it hasn't happened. I now stay up late hoping that I will sleep later and longer...
this morning I had an overseas call obviously from India where the woman could not pronounce my full name properly and then said we understand you have recently had a car accident and we will make the...
I've got a battery operated cuckoo clock and I've done something wrong when changing the time back today. The clock now cuckoos at the wrong time and I cannot find the instructions. Anybody out there...
My apologies Ed if I am out of order in posting in this section, which perhaps is somewhat your private domain and should be limited to your initial postings. However, I am becoming confused by the...
Thatcher & her underhanded mob 1 Created mass unemployment 2 Persecuted the unemployed for not finding what wasn`t there 3 Ignored & mocked the underpriviledged 4 Created the underclass 5 It...
As some of you may know, I am quite into artificial intelligence and have recently entered a competition to write a computer program that can create original jokes and poems. I wondered if any of you...
"nice" women? Discussion going on elsewhere and I just wondered what a wider audience thought? Women seem to like a bit of rough and men seem to like bitches. Why is this???
Hello In July 2009 I and my husband bought an established engraving business in partnerships, we incorporated, and both put money into legal fees, software, getting a domain, machine, etc We do not...
I find myself disapproving of the concept and the participants in this story, but I am finding it difficult to articulate exactly what it is that annoys me :) Quite apart from the eye-wateringly large...
My wife and I recently visited London and one of the many fascinating places we visited was the National History Museum. The magnificence of this architectural triumph cannot be overstated and neither...
Under your stairs? I have 2 meters. A spin dryer [it still works, I keep it in case washing machine breaks down.] A foot spa. A cat box. Bags of old shoes. Hoover. Creepy crawlies. And loads of crap....
Why is 'a do-gooder' a derogative term? Surely it is better to be a do-gooder than a 'do-badder' or a 'do-nothing'? I'm sorry to refer to the Saville case again, but if all those who now claim they...
Imagine you could live in your fantasy home - real or fictional. It might be Southfork out of Dallas, or the house out of Home Alone, or maybe Batmans house! Anything at all. What would you choose?
Which major city is furthest from the coast, and how far is it? I live the furthest from the coast line as you can get in the UK but thankfully can still get to the seaside in less than a couple of...
