It was a tradition in Derbyshire - probably elsewhere, too - when I was born for silver to be put in a baby's pram. My parents collected the money and bought premium bonds with it. However, when... ...
We have a Panasonic KX-TG6521E with a base unit and one handset. Recently, OpenReach had to move the phone to a very inconvenient location in the house, so we'd like another handset. However,... ...
I used to have a gizmo that plugged into the wall and connected to my computer to boost the signal to my laptop while I was working in the 'home office' (spare bedroom). I now have a new computer, am...
I'm fed up with table knives that don't cut, but don't really want to go down the steak knife route. Does anybody know of any table knives that are sharp to start with and are subsequently...
Even though I've disabled my adblocker for this site, I am still getting a pop up for The AnswerBank saying it looks like I'm using an ad blocker. Why?...
I've got an Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows 10. I'm trying to connect a set of Soundcore Life P2 ear buds. Having charged them, I take them out of the box. The white light on one flashes rapidly....
When we see Windsor Castle on the news at the moment, we see a row of 4 or 5 people, wearing black capes with red trim at the entrance. Can anybody tell me what organisation these people are from?
Like many others, I'm doing a lot of work on the computer at the moment and it looks like this will go on for a fair while. When I'm having online meetings - which can easily be 6 hours a day - I wear...
For some reason, when I went to use my Hotmail address today, it suggested three address similar to my own in the autofill address bar. Does anybody know how to stop them from coming up? And why have...
In the past, it was possible to type fractions and symbols into Word using ctrl+ a code. This no longer seems to work. I've been online and found several quite complex ways of typing fractions. Can...
Using Windows 10 and Microsoft Mail to deal with a Gmail account, for some reason the items I've written and sent are nearly always going into the Spam folder instead of Sent Items. When they go into...
I'm using 'Mail' (icon is a blue envelope with white paper inside) for my gmail account, but for some reason any e-mail I write gets stuck in the Outbox. I've deleted everything from the Outbox,...
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/03/uk-schools-should-taught-about-black-history-12794916/ Would it be silly to ask if we can have a "white curriculum"? Of course we know the answer but surely history is...
When I was a kid, we had things which we could write on, then move a slide across and the writing disappeared. It was a less messy alternative to chalk boards or whiteboards. Does anybody know what...
We've just broken one of our last small - 125ml - wine glasses. I thought I would just go to Wilkos and get some more, but they only seem to have huge ones nowadays. That goes for all the other local...
I want to buy a smartphone that will mirror to our Panasonic TV without needing Chromecast or such. I'd like something reasonably-priced, but am lost among the handsets on sale. I use Virgin mobile...
I've been using Hotmail for years. A couple of weeks ago, something went wrong. Since then, when I send messages from my iPad, they have appeared to be from Age Co Funeral Sales. Messages coming to my...
I teach English as a Foreign Language to adults. At our school, we have two large cardboard clocks (12+ inches in diameter) for teaching the time, but they are extremely old, worn and patched and more...
I'm (still!) trying to get access for my friend to his deceased sister's laptop, which it turns out is using Windows 10, not 8 as I had thought. I've managed to get an Ophcrack ISO file onto a USB...
Back in February, Beunchico and The Builder very kindly helped me gain access to a Vista computer left to a friend by his sister, who had passed away. She also had a Windows 8 computer, which has the...
