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Cos H is finishing work at lunchtime til 5th january. So i wanted to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to Hitched.co.uk - the forums have really saved my sanity in the worst year of my...

I broke my toe two weeks ago (middle toe of my right foot). I went to the doctor to get it checked out, and they sent me to the hospital for an X-Ray. At the hospital they confirmed it was broken,...

Iranu!!

We had 3 cats and for years they were all insured together. Last year we lost one of them and got a new kitten. The new kitten wasn't insured - I got her microchipped and neutered but when I tried to...

Http://www.yournotme.com/testaspnet/default.aspx There are no people with my name in the UK (this obviously hasn't been updated since I changed my name) so my answer is: You don't exist. Go and look...

As per the title. I do not own a pair of jeans - don't like them, feel like I am always 'overflowing' them when I try them on - am I alone?

Mine are all Nigella's, which is not a surprise ? Her cranberry mincemeat. Her mince pie recipe, including easy peasy pastry recipe. (I hadn't had a mince pie in years because I thought they were...

On Monday I bought a cardigan, I had wanted it for ages, it was £35, so not dreadfully expensive or anything. I wore it three times and washed it once (followed the instructions) it went really bobbly...

I have bought this dress http://www.hobbs.co.uk/index.cfm?page=1114&pageNumber=2 (it's the one called "Saffy"). It's wool, sort of jacquard and has a sort of 50s Jackie O type look to it. The only...

I ordered a present online on the 15th - all hunky dory get an email tonight to say it wont be coming so my credit card wont be charged well thanks a bunch nob chops - gaaaah! there is nothing else...

I have just made a Chicken Pie for tonight. However the chicken was frozen, I cooked it and have made the pie. Is it OK to leave it to cool and re heat tonight or because the chicken was frozen do I...

So, having a bit of a clear out and have come across 3 bottles of wine (red, white and rose oddly) in our utilityish room. I honestly have no idea how long they have been there, we moved here in 2003,...

In one sense, I can see that your bank giving you budgeting advice if you need it is a very useful service and can see why they're promoting it. However the below exchange which is in the advert...

My mum brought us a bottle of the mint version back from Poland, and OMG! it's amazing stuff if can tell me where to get this in the UK I'd be most grateful, google is not being my friend TIA if...

.........is it because I bought a cheap one? Or is this something that will settle down over the next couple of days? The 'blurb' says to boil and rinse the kettle at least twice before using it. It's...

I can't. I try and try and try and it always comes out crap. I end up buying the fresh stuff from M&S and feel crap about it. Why does it defeat me? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

. . . is really starting to get to me. I spend 3 hours a day on public transport surrounded by people coughing, sneezing and sweating, so its never a surprise when I get a cold / flu, but this year...

Whilst I'm glad that this case has finally been solved I'm utterly horrified at the measures that were taken to try to prove Colin Stagg was guilty. Even with today's conviction, it seems unliekly...

Does anyone know if swarovski shops replace/sell replacement crystals? i've just looked at my bracelet and noticed one is missing, and another is turning yellow. the bracelet was bought from one of...

We're going to a friend's for Christmas dinner this year, and I've offered to do the starter. I normally do something quite light - gravadlax, or king prawns or similar. However, this year I need to...

Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1095597/Nicola-McLean-strips-ANOTHER-lingerie-launch-reveals-stretch-marks.html Yes, I know it's the daily vile, but is it just me that thinks this is...

I have a hospital appointment today in the haematolgy department and I have a stinking cold and a hacking cough, it wouldn't be wise to go to this appointment feeling like crap would it and spreading...

Gaaah, I have 40 mins till I have to subject myself to an hour of utter terror at the hands of my hairdresser. I don't know what it is that makes me feel so sick, but I would rather go and have root...

I've just had to slap down (intellectually speaking and with as much tact and diplomacy as I could muster) a jumped up junior member of staff outside my department who questioned my professional...

I've got to contribute some nibbles to the staff party on Friday and I can't use my oven. Has anyone any ideas what I can make that can be a) prepared with either no cooking, or cooking on a hob or...

My Mum wants a "wam nightie" for Christmas. Bless her, she's rather old fashioned. Something like this would be ideal: Budget is about £20. The one above is £69 ? I've looked in Debenhams, BHS,...

I was thinking about getting straighteners for my mum's christmas but not willing to spend the money on GHD's for her. I have heard there is a good alternative that is cheaper but I paid no attention?...

He died last year in March. He was like my daddy. i miss him so much. He died 9 weeks before my wedding. i wanted to ask him to walk me down the aisle along with my step father, i never had a chance....

On BBC4 now - he's just described Record Breakers' Norris McWhirter as "a right-wing fact-shitter"?

I am having a massive clean up of my house - I have just washed all the bedding and I am about to turn the mattress - are you meant to hoover it? I have had it a year and always have a mattress...

This is PURELY about JB’s version of this song. Now…I’ve heard it before many times, and have never got the hype. However, I just listened to it in my ears (hehe…as in earphones rather than out loud)...

Argh, I hate this sort of thing. We use an agency, but always have the same girl and she's lovely. We've even met her family and they're all lovely. I don't know her well enough to call her a friend,...