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It's my nana's 80th birthday next month and I have no idea what to buy her. Usually it's slippers, a bottle of Badedas bubble bath, or some chocolates. However 80 years old is pretty special so I want...

Not today, unfortunately ?. Booked for a month's time, the last day of my month 'off' before I start contract work part time. Hopefully, by then, there will be a few business-related things to...

I know that sounds ridiculous but can't think how else to describe it. We just gave our dog her last haircut for the year, and have noticed she has a very cold (to the touch) patch on her breast bone...

I have both in the fridge and I'd like to cook them before they go mouldy. Please could I have some recipe ideas, I've never done swede before and have only ever had cauliflower in lamb curry.

Hi Has anyone ever been treated for Helicobacter Pylori? I have just had a positive blood test after suffering really bad stomach pains and heartburn symptoms for the last week and need to start a...

What is the best way to cook it - I've never eaten trout before. Fish fingers are generally as seafood as I get ?

I wonder if anyone is able to help me translate the tasting menu(Menu Degustacion) for this restaurant? Im going to Santander is Spain and would like to book a great restaurant, and this one has a...

Sorry if this is inappropriate, but you can just tell that the Beeb writer didn't know whether to laugh or cry when writing this. "Friends of [Kirstie's] have been leaving messages on her [Bebo] page....

I'm only on chapter 17, I haven't read any of her stuff for ages but i'm finding myself wishing she'd get to the point. Is it this slow all the way through? I've been wondering since chapter 7 if...

Nothing's happening.....anyone else watching?

This might be a really stupid question, but what does this info from a garment care label actually mean? It's only something I've seen written on them fairly recently.

Well I have decided to teach myself to cook and wanted to start with something simple, scones seemed to be a good idea as it is what children are taught to make in year 7. I found a recipe on the...

The pr1ck through the wall from us (mummy and daddy - must be out or away on holiday) is having some kind of party. Now I'm not going to go round just now as I know it's still early but what time...

Is it just me but its like drinking a mug of TCP.. it smells and tastes just like the stuff.. My H thinks it just me but I wondered if I am right or am I just a nutter on my own.

I have been calling Mr MF a chud for a while now. Tonight, I called him it again, and he responded "Please stop calling me a chud I don't like it", Me: "why don't you like it?", Mr Mf "Because it has...

Sorry for the ? subject matter. I have had a horrid cough for the best part of a month ? and I am hoping it's starting to come to an end, but I've got horrible catarrh which is leaving that horrible...

I must just be thick. I really can't figure it out. Help?

Voldie, mr c and i went to see 'evita' tonight at the leeds grand, and it was totally fab. ? however one thing puzzled us, in that the narrator guy was che guevara. i've seen the movie and the...

We're still renting after our house flooded, ?and move back shortly. We ordered a LOT of furniture from Ikea to be delivered today to the old house - wardrobes, beds, shelves etc. It was confirmed,...

I'm planning my new kitchen and as I posted yesterday, was planning to get a range style cooker, albeit exact model not decided. Having done more research, I'm wondering whether I'd be as well going...

Roughly how many sandwiches/items per person should you allow?

In a quandry ...not sure where is most appropriate to put this, but I was just wondering what peoples thoughts were on being invited to a wedding 2 days before the event... not for the couple, just...

? he was strolling across my driveway! gawd knows how he got there, no food pants for him anywhere. I was so excited, i used to keep them when i was little! my H was a bit scared, they are very big...

Just got a letter addressed to someone else, at this address. It's also got the wrong postcode on it, so not sure what's happened there. Do I just put it back in the letterbox with 'not known at this...

ABOUT THE WRITER Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald. This is from newshound Dave Barry's colonoscopy journal: I called my friend Andy Sable, a...

I heart fish and chips, I'm hungry and fancying fish and chips, and also a bit bored. ? What's your favourite thing to order when you're succumbing to the loveliness that it your local chippy? I love...

Title explains it all really. I hate doing PDRs, its my second one, nothing has changed at all since my last one, I haven't changed, the team haven't changed under my (assistant) management and I...

I love her <wistful sigh>. If only I weren't married, she was straight, she found me interesting, I had an opportunity to meet her...and so on ?

I looooove Marc Warren and I absolutely forbid him to have a relationship with Abi Titmuss. STOP IT THIS INTSTANT!!! ? x

Hi guys, I'm on a whim here.. I'm looking for a Radley bag, which was last season, looks like this: http://www.bagsofchoice.net/images/bags/58571_Brown.jpg I can't find it on fleabay, Radley don't...

You here? There's 15 minutes of highlights from Carlisle on QPR world that you neeeeeed to see. There's some amazing football going on. You have to pay (obviously) to watch them but I'm happy to lend...

Bruce is apparently stopping after this season, so who should replace him? I suspect I am slightly obsessed, but I'd like to see Mark Ramprakash ? every week. hmmmm. Who would your dream lineup be? I...