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I'm making some for Christmas and Google is mostly saying a month in the fridge - but you can't put olive oil in the fridge can you?! Am hoping to do one with chilli, garlic and peppercorns, and one...

I had a mirena coil fitted a couple of days ago. I was all smug because I was very brave whilst it was fitted and thought I'd done very well. Not long after the cramping started - my word, it was a...

So big companies like Woolworths, The Pier, MFI and so on have gone bust, yet the internet is still seeing increasing sales. Is this because we are changing the way we shop, or because the net has not...

How bloody expensive are they?! What a rip off. I need to buy remotes and nunchucks. Ideally I'd like 4 because the whole point of it was that we could play as a family, rather than having to take...

Anyone else feel like this? It's the time of year, I think. Today is our magazine deadline day. I have a few important jobs, but the main pressure is on the sales people (phew ?) However, the jobs I...

OK, so Mr Clairy has invited some more people to Christmas dinner (who are likely to stay over Christmas Eve too) so it looks as though we'll have 8 for breakfast and canapes and 10 for Christmas...

I will happily admit to posting a depressing / grumpy thread, so I would like to balance my karma by posting a happy one to celebrate the good things in life. Please list all the good things that have...

I'm due to have a coil fitted this week, but my doctors won't fit it unless I am actually having my period. I am now 3 weeks late (not pregnant - tested last week, but unlikely anyway.) I can't...

Sorry for the needy post. That ex-client has started threatening me again and it's really getting me down. I am keeping a record of all his correspondence and have blocked his email - but he's started...

http://www.timesspellingbee.co.uk/ Just scored 159 - am determined to better it! ?

Right, this is a nice or grim poll ? I have been icing mini Christmas cakes and a couple are misshapen so I have this and some spare marzipan left over. If I made individual tartlets from pastry with...

Argh - a local gym has just offered me free gym membership if we run a feature on their family gym (which, TBH, I'd be quite happy to anyway...) It's worth £400. His family have been getting the...

I've decided to make as many home made Christmas decorations as possible this year and I'm really enjoying it. At the moment orange, clementine, grapefruit and apple slices and whole satsumas are on a...

A local nursery placed an advert in the magazine in the summer but didn't pay the bill. We sent them a reminder as per usual, no response, so we phoned and were told the bill had been paid. There was...

'Stay Another Day' makes me want to poke someone's eyes out with a stick. A more whiny, annoying, w@nky tune has never been composed before or since. And yes I know it's about his dead brother, TBH it...

What worked best? I've just bought a massive bottle for £9 from Macro and will decant into small half-bottle size bottles with Grolsch style / kilner jar lids. I will make chilli vodka (a great...

Do you think we have an issue with this as a society? Are kids allowed enough freedom to grow up into healthy adults, or is it too dangerous to allow them the freedoms that would be ideal? I am sat in...

I have to make a big decision that will impact on my life profoundly for the next 8 months at least. On paper, it's a good move. I am sure of the advantages. In my heart I'm just not excited by it....

Hi ya Did you go for that shop in the end? I have often wondered ?

I have to do a job I really don't want to do - a farking implementation plan. Make me do it pleased? Hitched is too lovely and warm and welcoming and I am too distracted. A bloke goes to the doctors...

Hmm, I am planning to bake a favourite cake or biscuits with the kids for each of our family members. We're trying to cut down financially, the kids will love it - and everyone loves a home baked...

This weekend I hope to have a proper sort out, get organised, give things to the charity shop and have a proper clean up. In my bathroom cupboard I have loads of jewellery that doesn't fit into a box...

If one were to write a tender for a contract, from a company, but the writer would be the main person delivering the service, should it be written in the third or first person? E.g. "Microsoft is a...

And then used that information? ? This was a question posed on the radio this morning and I think it was interesting. When I was 16 I was staying at a friend's sleepover - with about 10 other...

Do you remember the first time you slept with your OH? Does he? I quite often think about it ?? but was surprised to discover that H doesn't remember it at all. I must have been good, eh? ?

My lovely 11 year old son phoned me at work yesterday, beside himself with excitement, because he'd got his first girlfriend. He'd bought her some chocolate buttons with his pocket money and wants to...

I understand that rationale behind tax cuts in that it may encourage individuals to spend and boost the economy. However, if the government is effectively bankrupt, they will presumably have to borrow...

A bit of black humour that cheered me up on an otherwise depressing day. I thought I'd share: "A guy goes to the pub, and says to his friend, "You won't believe what happened! I was taking a shortcut...

I have a chance to bid for a contract that relates to an area of my expertise (and my husbands - he would be involved in planning but not delivering). However it's outside of my normal business...

OK, so the idea has been mooted that this year we run an OT Secret Santa in addition to the charity one. I am happy to organise it, on the basis that everyone who contributes to this also makes some...

Gawd, it's been a tough year for us as a family this year. I've had depression issues (thankfully now on the mend), H has had a workplace bullying problem and now our 11 year old is being bullied by...

Presentation so that I can email it? Getting cross now ?