Can someone please explain why the teaching unions want to close schools? Would they be pleased if all health workers just downed tools and went home saying we'll be in touch online? Would they...
In my flickering candles under the tree and in the lights across the wall with tiny pegs holding Christmas cards, in my large lit parcels and in the star on the tree, all refreshed for the rest of the...
Had a lot of Emails saying that we have won prizes from Asda, Boots, Amazon and some others.
Deleted them as Phishing but just wondered how prevalent they are...
What are you having/ had for lunch today? I've got watercress and coconut soup. Lightly sauteed onion and potato with added vegetable stock and coconut milk and fresh pureed watercress served with...
Half a tin of sweet corn which has been sitting in the fridge since goodness knows when, and a small box of dark chocolate covered crystallised ginger after trying two of them and deciding they’re...
What was Prue Leith thinking about.She was asked which senior crew member survived the Titanic sinking.Given the four options she asked her nephew who didn’t but said he thought it wouldn’t be the...
I have some friends i met about 14 years ago. At the time, they didnt have a landline and only used their mobiles, and i remember thinkig how weird that was. Nowadays, i think i am the only person i...
When the 3 wise men visited Bethlehem, one of them,a very tall chap banged his head and cut it quite badly on the stable door. He put his hands to his head and said," Jesus Christ!!" Mary said, "...
I have just booked a Hurtigruten 12 day Norway coast cruise for January 2022. I appreciate that it is a ‘cruise’ but they are not cruise ships. They are ferries for all the ports along the coast....
First time I am cooking above and I always cook night before. When I heat the cooked turkey I can get away with heating it up (slices) in gravy. However I would like to heat it without gravy. I don't...
The wife of a neighbour of mine died earlier this month, so when I wrote my Christmas cards out, I only put his name on it. He has just pushed a card through for me with his and late wife's name on...
It's the 23rd,what's your plans for today folks, are you going to join the throngs of shoppers for food as if there's a famine about to start, or are you going to chill? I think I'll tidy my wardrobe...
That otherwise wouldn't be known outside of an obscure Q&A site such as this. (Ironically, partially inspired by another ABers Facebook post...) I can count in Japanese (fat lot of good that's done...
'Party Games' - the one where Jim Hacker ends up as the only candidate for PM - on at the moment on BBC Four. Hilarious - shame the script writers aren't still around to do an episode dealing with the...
Went for daily paper at Spar. Two young men in workclothes walked with no face coverings. I was stood at the till and the next customer was 2 metres behind. 2 feet behing him was one of the unmasked...