does anyone have any tips on baking bread successfully using a bread making machine? my loaves come out very dense and within one day the loaf is as hard as a brick and inedible! I follow the...
I've recently started a new job as a Maths Teaching Assistant in a school. Since i'm a departmental assistant my role is to not only help out in the class room but also do some clerical work,...
I know this isnt the right place for this, but hey, where is. Theres been a lot of posts recently (kind of) about the answer bank banning questions for being too chatty. So this place has been set up....
Just before Christmas, my office manager at work gave me a lot of dog's abuse about my petty mistake-making, till I snapped and said 'Ah well, I'm sorry I'm not perfect'. She then called me...
This year I intend to give up my job and mortgage to move away and become a student again. I can't wait, but I am also rather nervous. Is this a rash thing to do at 35?! Has anyone else done this, and...
for everyone doing the sunday times travel quiz who are finding it difficult to answer q19 (what have jean shrimpton, neil morrissey, francis ford coppola and gerald ford got in common) the times have...
For how long has the human race taken some sort of herb/concoction to dull or highten it's senses? is there any evidence of primates or other mammals doing the same? I'm including alcohol in this one....
Hi I'm interested in learning a foreign language, but not sure which? Italian sounds the nicest I think, but how useful is it outside of Italy? Perhaps Spanish would be more useful as a...