Activity of hazel

Anyone got any experience of getting life/critical illness cover with a history of depression? At one point I know that I got quoted an outrageous price for it because I'd had depression, even though my illness hinged around a fear of dying so I...

I'm trying to describe different sectors of publishing and the only phrase I can think of is 'specialist publications' but that sounds a bit top shelf ? What's the description for interest magazines - eg BBC Wildlife, Better Homes, Angling Weekly?

And can you do anything with the speed? It's so painful, as everyone on that thread is saying.

Am meeting a friend in 'Nam for lunch tomorrow. Needs to be somewhere relatively child-friendly, probably not full on 3 course sit-down meal as we're going cheese tasting later on. Any ideas?

I need to get my friend a birthday present. Budget £20-30. I'd rather not get a voucher-based thing. What would you like if it were you?

Am looking to beef up my skills and formal comms qualifications - I have science qualifications and experience of communicating science but no formal qualifications on that side. Has anyone done the CIPR diploma? Is it really highly thought of? Did...

It's really fascinating. He's such an interesting bloke.

A 23-year-old pregnant woman has been found dead with her unborn baby cut from her womb, police in the US state of Massachusetts have said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8175066.stm This is just awful ?

Cute aren't they? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8170033.stm

Really quite scary tonight. But funny.

I need to meet some friends near Kings Cross for a drink. Can you suggest somewhere good? We'll all have luggage so space would be nice though we could leave it in the left luggage office I guess.

Seriously? WTF? Go to work nude "to improve communication and productivity"?

I've been doing some freelance work and the company are saying that they have to pay VAT. I'm not VAT registered or anything. What should happen here? Do I just tell them not to? I don't really want to be VAT registered - I've got no costs I want to...

We've found a house we really like - lovely spacious rooms and hallways, great schools nearby, lots of hitchers within a 5 minute walk and potential to be something really fantastic. And within our budget too ? But the only downside is that the house...

Not wanting to distract from everything else that's gone on today but Twitter is saying that Jeff Goldblum has died in New Zealand...

I was just thinking that their article on butter versus margarine had some nice illustrations of fats and how they differ. Except then they concluded that butter is worse for you than margarine because of the saturated fats, with no mention of the...