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Help me feed my foodie friends! I need ot decide on a starter for dinner on Saturday. Main course and pudding will both be quite substantial so I thought I'd do a light picky starter - nice olives and...

Over the next few months I am going to be recieving two compensation payouts for personal injurys I have suffered. How can I be sure that the solicitor/s I am using are getting me the...

Hi I'm hoping someone might be able to advise as I'm in a bit of a panic. My H and I are looking to move to Dubai later this year - he has been offered a job - subject to visa approval. Now here is...

I've been looking for readings for a friend, and this one keeps cropping up. Did anyone actually have it at their wedding? How could you keep a straight face? Or I am I the only one that would be...

Any one tried this? My mum is about to start on this diet My aunt has managed to lose 5 stone with it, she is 5' and was about a size 20 and is now a 12, my mum is about 5' too and is also about a...

Is LTP around? Anyone know if he is in australia at the moment promoting? what was his new creation?

Do they wear black because 3 are filmed the same day? (So they aren't wearing the same distinctive top or something?).

Going running at 7pm. not looking forward to it. It's bloody freezing. [V]

OK, I've admitted to myself that eating lots of chocolate, crisps and cake during the day is NOT a pregnancy craving, just me being greedy and having a vague excuse. However, I look at the nice fruit...

My old, terminally ill Mum sometimes wets the bed at night? and Dad has to wash her in the mornings. He has been using Dettol diluted in warm water but the whole house is starting to smell very...

Just another random pondering from me tonight ?. Have you ever heard of anyone such as a vicar/priest/nun ever being made redundant. I was just thinking about this when reading the local paper and the...

There's a Facebook Group here -https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14981700711 with over 20k members, suggesting he died of colon cancer on the 21st March, aged just 46. However, Wikipedia and...

Mr H has indigestion apparently, he's sitting here huffing and puffing and making such a fuss! For gawds sake [V] If he huffs and puffs any more he's going to blow all the houses down ?

Has anyone had one of these done? If so, how painful or uncomfortable was it? Also, did they give you any kind of anaesthetic? Thanks.

My union (National Union of Teachers or NUT) has voted in favour of a one day walk out on 24th April. I voted against the strike, dont want to participate as I think it is fruitless - what can the...

Could anybody recommend a T&T (tomato based) curry recipe. I have one I normally but would like to try something different tonight. Thanks

And he has looked at 2 baby names websites ? We don't have baby. Should I be worried? ?

I was diagnosed with a hemangioma (8x6cm)in 2006 and have recently had to have a follow up ultrasound and it has grown (11x9cm and takes up almost the whole of my right lobe) however it is unusual for...

If you have a repayment mortgage of £45000, you were allowed to pay up to £500 extra a month without penalty, how would this affect the mortgage? Does the £500 extra a month go towards decreasing the...

Well, having found out how much more we're going to have to pay when we remortgage thanks to higher rates, it looks like we're going to have to pay interest only on a mortgage for a while....

We're going to Machu Picchu next Easter. As the flights will be available soon, we're starting to plan our trip. Apart from a trip into the Amazon, MP, Lima and Cusco which we want to do, we have no...

Am I right in thinking that it is ok to drive an un-MOTd car to a pre-booked MOT? We have lost our last MOT, so don't know the exact date it ran out. A call to the place we bought the car last year...

"Who brings the cheese on April 3rd? The Cheese Weasel He's not a silly bunny or a raindeer or a bird, He's the Cheese Weasel He's got a cute black tail And tiny buck teeth He doesn't bring fish, and...

I regularly drive up and down the M4 going to meetings as well as driving through London and it never fails to amaze me just how many people don't wear a seat belt. What really worries me is when I...

I went to see a psychic a few years ago and then just before I got wed. I was quite sceptical and didnt know what to expect. It was all very weird. The first time was all about my mother - she passed...

Has anyone used these recently and had a reaction to them? I've never had any problems with them, until I bought a new pack within about 20 minutes of putting them my skin under and around them became...

My left ear is really blocked and when I touch my ear it actually feels numb. Typical for this to happen after the doctors and chemists close. Anyone have any top tips to unblock your ear... using...

I have jsut been talking to my mother and she told me about this programme and said its hilarious. She is going to try and record it for me and bring it over because we miss english comedies. Before...

Fcuking Virgin Holidays customer service is shit. Tonight I had to ring for the fourth time to ask for confirmation of the £1,344.50 I paid on 10th March. Four fcuking times. And each time no one...

I have only ever used forums before, but was wondering if there is a live chatroom that hitchers use? If so, which one?

It has been on for about 20 seconds and already I want to throw something at the tv. Terri Dyer pronouncing triplets as tripperlets.

Tonight for the first time in my life I experienced this. Back story: for a while I've had an annoying pigeon couple nesting right outside my kitchen window and I've had to chase them out of the...