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I am making a souffle tonight for dinner guests. I've just taken my souffle dish from the cupboard and noticed it had a crack in it, then it fell into 2 bits ? It must have been cracked in the move a...

I know cooking does, but, what about freezing?

I made a christmas cake last November but due to illness I never got round to icing it and therefore we never ate it. It's been in an airtight container since then and I know people keep top tiers of...

Hugh Laurie - so fab in House, so funny with Stephan Fry (I would) Hugh Dennis - brill on Mock the Week and the Now Show, and the MWH (Wouldn't, despite him being very, very funny) Hugh F-W - I don't...

? I'd never heard of this woman until LOML ripped the piss out of her in his blog yesterday. How funny her habit of listing the occupation of all the incredibly successful 30-something middle-class...

How can I convince my mother to stop calling the childrens game Bakugan 'Bukake'? Bakugan is:- https://bakugan.com/en/home Bukake is:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukake (safeish for work - perhaps...

Right, correct me if this is no longer the case, but I believe that: -Best man organises stag night -MOH (or bridesmaids) organises hen night -Bride does not have much (if any) say in the 'w's' of hen...

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I'm going shopping tomorrow night for a dress. I'm going for a strapless kneelength number (in theory anyway). That will be ok won't it? I've never been to a ball before. OH is wearing a dinner jacket...

Squirel offal kebabs- i've try most things but I wouldn't entertain a mangy rabid squirel ?

The Royal Society of Chemistry are running a competition to decide what happened after Michael Caine said "Hang on lads, I've got an idea" The winner wins a weekend in Turin....

We are thinking of making some short bread for some pressies for christmas as H has discovered a nice receipe and they are very cheap to make. However I have no idea where to look for something to...

I am Matron of Honour for my best mate next year and we are talking about hen weekends. She has decided on Marbella and she recognises hotel and flights will be about £500 (for a long weekend) thats...

It obviously can't be sperm can it ? My friends boyfriend has had the snip - I asked her was comes out when he, erm, c ums ? What does come out???? ? She has no idea!!

I have a FB account, but hardly ever log into it. I only really use it to find out with what some of my friends are up to as they seem to live on there! I logged in the other day, and I have three...

Can I have your opinions? They've just started delivering to us in the back of beyond and wondered what you experiences had been?

Going to Leeds on Friday for H's birthday. Will be shopping during the day and eating and drinking on the night. Have been there before but not for a while so am sure there will be some new bars. Any...

I have been having facials at my local Clarins salon (which is at John Lewis) I have never tipped them. But today I saw another client tipp the beautician. What is the etiquette? Do I tip them? WWYD? ...

What would you do if your neighbour put a mobile home in his garden and told you he was going to rent it out? The guy behind us has done this and though it's not on our boundary we can see it from the...

I baked ours last night and just as I put it in the oven I read on the recipe it could be made up to 6 weeks before or longer if frozen... I thought by the nature of Christmas cake it could survive...

I quite like vegetables and most of them too. I don't like radish or uncooked celery and I'm not so keen on runner beans (but other beans are fine), turnip and swede. I have problems incorporating...

I've got to make a retro pudding of some sort on Wednesday for a v. silly dinner party (I suspect the other offerings will include prawn cocktail and steak diane ?) and I need a spectacular finishing...

I haven't seen my adult cat now for about 2 or 3 days (can't remember which morning I actually last saw her). A neighbour thinks he saw her 2 days ago, but can't be sure of the day either. I am kind...

Mr G is currently plastering it (well trying his best) and then I need to choose a colour for it. This colour needs to go all the way upstairs and the only thing I really don't want is magnolia! So...

Hello It is my 30th Birthday at the beginning of November and fancy a night out in Birmingham. I don't go out normally into town so have no idea where to go. Does anybody have any recommendations? I...

We are in the process of buying a house. We made an offer about 3 weeks ago for a house and that offer was accepted. Things are moving forward, albeit slowly. From the sounds of it the vendors need to...

We get slugs coming in overnight - we come downstairs to find slug trails on the carpet. MrH takes it as an invasion of his privacy and doesn't believe that normal people have slugs coming into their...

My H in his wisdom bought a heyooge piece of stilton last weekend and has been nibbling it all week. Consequently our fridge now smells as if something has died in it - moreso for me because I'm pg...

Anyone got any idea where these names are from? It's something from my childhood (I'm 31, born in 1976). My Mum came out with the first and I responded with the second but where on earth have we got...

Hi all, I was wondering if you could offer me some advice concerning my husband. He has worked for a air conditioning business as an employee since March 2007, since he has worked for this company...

Hi All. I got into a little financial difficulty earlier on in the year. I basically ran up my credit card. So I upped my payments so rather than paying off the minimum amount each month I was paying...

OK so I am clearly reall thick, but I don't get how these work. I've had a club card for over a year but not got myself together to redeem my 'points' properly. All other reward cards I have had...