Why are we obsessed with name shortening? I've often wondered why we give someone a name, only for people to shorten it. I remember my Father used to get really angry when anyone addressed my Mum... ...
When did we adopt Nan instead of Gran? My partner is quite touchy about it, she prefers to be called Nan or Nanny instead of Gran or Granny, and if anyone calls her Gran she hates it, she said it... ...
Not even sure if I'm in the correct section for this but here goes. I live in a mid terraced house of 4 houses. My neighbour has recently told us that she has discovered recently that the row of... ...
Last year me and partner decided it was time we had a new bathroom and kitchen. Nothing had been done to either rooms for 30 years, do went to B&Q, as they offered to do it on zero percent finance... ...
I have a double electric socket in my garage which the residents' association of the courtyard where I live are insisting be changed to an RCD type (along with 12 other garages). The garage is my... ...
Probably a silly question, but why do they put sweetcorn in a bag of mixed vegetables? Personally I hate the taste of sweetcorn, but it's a pain when I have to take out all the sweetcorn from the... ...
As a family we find it incredibly frustrating that Aldi will randomly change their food line. Best example I can give is we took a special trip to our local Aldi today, as I discovered their... ...
I find it so annoying when Football or Rugby takes over a whole Saturday evenings tele. This happened a few weeks ago when regular prime time tv shows for a Saturday night was cancelled and if my... ...
Had a text out of the blue from EE this morning saying that your landline has just gone digital and needs to be plugged into the green socket at the back of your broadband router, otherwise it... ...
My partners friend owns a house that was left to her by her grandfather in his will, so when he died the house became hers. She was married at the time, but since then the relationship as broken... ...
A work colleague of mine has a daughter in her last year of school. He was telling me she's dreading leaving school and will miss her friends and the routine and familiarity of going to... ...
Last year we had Verisure Security system added because someone was going round damaging cars, so we decided to add cameras at the back and front of the house, especially as I work night shifts,... ...
I'm convinced the colour of an object, or in this case two objects of an identical size can cause an optical illusion of making one item larger than the other. Today I got back into eating tinned... ...
Recently bought a Dacia Duster on finance, but to my complete ignorance I didn't realise it came with no spare wheel. I rang the garage where I bought it the next day apon realising it had no spare... ...