Have been invited to my friends aunties 100th birthday celebration at the nursing home - quite an achievement! Really like to take a gift but what do you get someone of that age, particularly someone...
I am going to buy a 6ft round pool and I am going to put camping roll (the things you put your sleeping bag on when camping underneath). How many will I need if the camping rolls are 180cm x 50 cm - I...
In the good old days, we used to answer the telephone with 'Hello, Whitehall 231.' With the rise of mobile phones and spam calls that doesn't seem sensible. So, what's a polite way to answer one's...
I have just spotted in a couple of early morning threads that Rowan is hoping to have Redman home today, I think the news deserves a thread of its own so that late arrivals at AB towers don't miss it....
Locked your keys in the car, spare keys at home? Phone home on their mobile, hold your phone about a foot from the car door, get person at home press unlock button near to their mobile, car will...
I hope Jack will forgive me but he has just revealed on another thread that his beloved wife Minnie passed away on Monday. I thought that it should be on a separate thread as the other one seems to...
From a random thought during a chat - who was/is your favourite Beatle and, similarly, your favourite Rolling Stone. Me personally I'd like to be George and Charlie ... :) [ for our younger viewers...
Yesterday after work I went to M&S and for only the second time in my life used a shop's bra fitting service. I found that the size I had self assessed for myself was wrong. After measuring the girl...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23425448
Anyone else surprised that Thalidomide is still being dispensed ?
It appears to be used in Brazil to combat Leprosy....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2375471/Royal-baby-boy-Sorry-I-STILL-wish-shed-baby-girl-says-Amanda-Platell.html /// However joyful the news, it means another future king will join his father...
Talking with friends last night about how many times they have moved home and even around Britain to live made me realise what a sheltered life Ive led LOL. Since meeting my now husband in 1974 Ive...
Does everybody on AB like everybody - why do so many personalities clash when they don't know them in real life. It is after all "black ink on a white page"???...
Okay...place your bets. What do you think it will be? Just the first name, and one guess each. I've emailed the AB Editor, and he's promised £750 of Debenhams vouchers to the inner (to be shared if...
A female mate of mine swears blind that the Daily Mail hates women. I can't comment, because I don't delve into that part of the Internet, unless I absolutely have to... Anyway, we've been discussing...