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I wondered whether I could ask for your advice? We are just about to appoint our first employee - we've held interviews and selected a brilliant candidate who is perfect for the job. I need to give...

I would ask AIBU, but I don't think I am, so it's a moot point ? Mum's 60th and ruby anniversary in Sept. A year ago, my brother and I decided to organise a surprise party - nothing massive, maybe an...

I know you'll be good at this, Hitchers of old ? esp as I have just spotted Sparkley around ? Am writing the Editor's column for the magazine, and we have an article about sex, written Hitched's own...

Is how long the woman at the table next to me has been telling her middle aged, male colleague about her recent wedding. He looks bored shitless ?

We've just held interviews for our first employee. We had one brilliant candidiate. H and I have interviewed several times before for positions when we were both employed ourselves, but this is the...

Erm, I appear to have a new job ? I will be setting up the new Diploma for East Riding Council (new qualification that will run alongside GCSE and A Level) 20 hours per week for a year. I also have a...

I don't like to go on about it on here much, but I was recently diagnosed with untreated PND. I've been on meds for about a month, but changed to fluoxetine a week ago because I developed an allergic...

Wretched little bastards they are. Millions of them [:'(]<itch>

Is it selfish? Assuming you are going out of the country for 7 days and leaving the children with grandparents they know and love, but don't have the chance to see all that often? Children are 11 and...

I have just returned from my son's school play (he's 11). They did Treasure Island and he was a pirate. I have no idea who did the make up, but he looked like Freddie Mercury ? Honestly, he was the...

Is it fair game? ? I have been shortlisted against 2 others and I am looking at their Facebook pages now ? Interesting to suss out the competition though. Do other professions do this? Teaching...

Or "tips to improve a long term sex life when both of you are knackered and you have kids" ? I took my tip from FHM's "Supercharge your sex life" pull-out. They know what men want, right? It says, and...

I have an interview for a PT job on a year's contract on Monday. I am very excited about the position, and I can fit it around my existing commitments, so all is cool. It's developing a new...

Honestly, I am rarely lost for words, but this time I am. MIL was just telling me the story of how my 4 year old neice was in the Chinese Takeaway with her Dad, my BIL. In some context, she said the...

Does anyone else really, really hate this product? I expected so much, and it left my hair sort of sticky and dull. I have been using it for over a month, have varied the amounts of the shampoo and...

This is a bit grim, I apologise in advance for sharing ? I would appreciate your professional opinion. I have a terrible itchy / sore scalp. It's in one area, on the back of my head. I don't have...

Anyone else feel like this? I am driving myself mad. I have 3 possible options, some of which may work together but may not. I don't hate anything, but I don't feel hugely excited about anything...

Since buying my 11 year old son a book about puberty he and his friend spend their lives giggling about the list of words for penis (including the word 'penis' actually (?) that are listed therein....

OK, I have a PDF of the magazine and I want to take a 'snapshot' of the front cover, that I can use as an individual JPEG. I would usually use Photoshop, but am out and about using the laptop and need...

My son, J, is in year 6. He, and 5 others in his year, are going to a different secondary school from the majority. Today the majority of his year spent the day at their new secondary school, leaving...

H and I have just bought a new kitchen from B&Q. It cost <drumroll>... £42 ?? ...

I have given myself a holiday next week ? It's at home, but I plan to spend most of it reclined on the sofa drinking tea with my nose buried in a book. What's good? Something lighthearted, easy to...

DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glennister). So wrong and yet so right ? Who's yours?

Only forwards.... Sorry if this is self indulgent, but it's really, really knocked me sideways. I need some perspective. I have a life I love. I love my husband, my kids, where I live, what I do. It's...

Bless him, he is going through a bit of a Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall stage. We're growing our own veg, so have had some lovely dinners of salad and various other things (fish, steak, lamb etc). The...

We have a through kitchen-diner. It's quite large and bright and currently is painted cream with stained wood (antique pine skirting boards, kitchen, furniture) and a cream tiled floor. We have 2...

I need to think of an article headline about kids clubs. The article is quite practical - advantages of summer holiday childcare, with a list of local kids clubs. I can't - for the life of me - come...

My side this time ? My Mum is 60 mid Sept and it's her and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary. My brother and I had a chat and agreed to organise a secret party, not least because most of our family live...

I am sorry to share something so rank, but I am so indignant and full of self pity I need some sympathy. My son woke me up this morning by puking on my pillow ?

I spoke to another researcher, and she didn't seem quite so keen. I just sounded a bit ... vanilla, I think. It was hard to make things sound good without sounding extreme (e.g. when asked what I...

SIL wanted to give us a garden toy that her children had grown out of. She said to me that she couldn't be bothered to sell it on Ebay because it was too big, so she wanted to give it to us. Which was...

Probably being a phillistine, but I don't get them. I sort of have one of my own, but I would otherwise have called it my diary. I sometimes find it helpful to write down my feelings, but I really...