I went to Tesco this morning to do my usual weekly shop and it was manic. Hardly anywhere to park but found an 'awkward to get into' bay far from the entrance. Took me while to find a trolley and when...
I was supposed to be on a week-long cruise from Southampton down to Lisbon and back, but the latest port shutdowns seem to have cowboshed that! Happily it was a working trip for free, but I still feel...
Maybe its a regional thing but I see *NO* evidence of it here in Stoke. Shops full of toilet rolls, pasta, beans etc. Where exactly is this panic buying going on? Someone posted a link last night to...
Just read a headline from the magazine Marie Claire "Kate Middleton Shopped at a London Waterstones Bookstore, Like a Normal Human Woman." Any ideas how she could have done this differently?...
...which women, past and present, do you admire (not including family members).
Mine are:
Elizabeth I
Marie Curie
Anne Frank
Sophie Scholl
Jane Austin
Ada Lovelace
+ loads more...
Am I missing something here? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8083431/Exeter-University-economics-lecturer-branded-transphobic-LGBT-feminist-students.html "The row erupted when Dr Poen...
Home made fish, chips and peas this evening, maybe a chip butty in the offing too. When I say home made, I mean home cooked...frozen breaded fish, frozen chunky chips and birds eye frozen peas. Off on...
I normally go to Waitrose about 7.30 Saturday morning and there are maybe 10 cars in the car-park and a handful of people in the store - I see the same faces each week. But, today it was complete...
Just a thought but all those sporting long and complex. manicures..... You can't wash your hands properly. Why do you think nurses have short nails, and food handlers should. Even flaking nail polish...
On a regular basis at work and in public loos, I notice so many people who just walk out after using toilet without washing their hands. Even after the importance of hand-washing is highlighted more...
For ones that don't know, or you haven't thought about it, and its not flying off the self. AND I DON'T NEED IT ALL. :0) Milton baby sterilising fluid. £2.50 per 1l bottle. One capful will sterilise...
Is there anything that’s sold only seasonally that you wish you could buy all year round? It occurred to me today that Hot Cross buns would be on my list - and then thoughts of big tubs of Quality...
I went to the Comic Con today at Kensington Olympia. The most famous guests I saw were Ian McDiarmud, Robert Englund, Sylvester McCoy and Fraser Hines. There were a few others but not as well known. A...
1) forty-niners from midway between 1930 and 1940 2) the chocolate bar goes for us! 3) what does a stream do when it flows over a slightly rough bed? 4) what you make in chess after dark 5)...