Has anybody tried those fitness trainers or shoes that are supposed to help tone your legs, bottom etc when walking? More importantly, do you think they work? Any recommendations welcome, please...
Anyone here from Leicester? In the town is a maze made of bricks laid into one of the streets, made about 20 years ago. People could dedicate a brick inscribed with people's names, I think one had...
I clicked on an ad for BT FON Hotspot thinking it was free and could take my netbook with me outside my house for job, house searches etc. Now I can't get rid of it or get my normal homepage or...
I have just put these 3 books on my Kindle but after chapter 4 of the first one, I am bored! Is it worth persevering or should I just go back to my Zombie novels?
What magazine subscription would you recommend? As a treat I subscribed to Glamour but feel it is too glamourous, young and the clothes, make up etc advertised are out of my price range. Any ideas? I...
Is the Moorcroft pottery 'Phoenix' design especially rare or is it just that it wasn't very popular? I have a squat/ovoid vase in this design and can't find it on any website (apart from Millers,...
Years ago I bought a necklace in Bellingham, Northumberland, in a shop that sold all hippy, new age type stuff. It is a silver coloured metal, double sided face, African in appearance. Whilst fiddling...
Would it be easy for me to claim job seekers allowance and am i entitled to it? A year ago i left a fairly high-powered, well paid job as my husband's job moved him to a small, cr@ppy town with no...
I have bought a self-basting chicken roaster (with lid) for O/H to do tonight's chicken in, I usually just use an unlidded one. Can he just put the chicken, potates and veg in together and just let it...
Hi, I'm looking for the name of a painting that shows a girl running after a hoop/ball but it's all in shadows and looks like there may be prison walls in it. I saw it once as an illustration to a...
Does anyone know of any places on or around the Welsh/English border (or a website that shows details of places) that have decorated houses in towns or villages? Bradfield Southend (Berkshire way)...
In the last 2-3 weeks we have had a strange looking bird in the garden. At first sight we thought it was a part albino chaffinch but hadn't seen it with the other chaffinchs in the summer, it hangs...
Is anyone making the Delia Smith Christmas cake form Waitrose? What a rip off! OH decided to try it, £10 for basically flour, fruit and spices then he had to buy eggs, marzipan, jam, brandy,...
Can anyone recommend a film (UK) that's playing in the next week or so? We enjoy action thrillers, science fiction and horror. We hate paying money to see something that we think 'That was rubbish!'...
When I have recorded a programme on BT Vision, I could move it on 30 seconds with no delay. After a power cut I now find that it just fast-forwards 30 secs still showing the programme in slo-mo. The...
Just a quick one, if anyone is in Cardiff this evening I have a spare, free ticket to see Marc Almond at St Davids Hall. I'll be in and around the centre/hall from 6pm wearing a long black velvet coat...
Eating lunch the other day my left jaw joint felt sore and my cheek puffed up like a hamsters! The pain and swelling have gone down slightly but the left side of my face still looks puffy and...
Has anyone had one of these bikes made up? www.myvelo.co.uk If so, are they any good and would a men's medium frame do for a 5'7'' female? (don't want a 'ladies bike' with a low bar!).
Many thanks...