Discussions I've Participated In

Good Afternoon people! Wonder if you may be able to help.... we're going to South Africa next February for my brothers wedding and are currently looking at car hire..... There are 4 adults and my...

It started with the locals, along with former troops and the British Legion. It was seen as a beautiful mark of respect. Then as word spread, more and more arrived to pay their respects. Then along...

I'm usually a BTer, but could do with some energy supplier advice if any of you can help me out. We've been with NPower since we moved into our house 4 and a bit years ago. Last year sometime I...

We bought a house a couple of months ago and the previous owners obviously weren't green fingered. Most of the garden is laid to grass with a couple of very small flower beds which currently contain...

Just got our first quarterly bill- £180 electricity and £250 gas for the quarter, 4 of us in a 4 bed house. This seems a lot to me. How much do you pay?

I've just had our bill through and our payments for the next 5 months have dropped from £109 to £36 a month ? Even if we didn't have a surplus they would still have halved. I'm not quite convinced...

Does anyone know if a discount code exists as we are looking to go in Oct but would like to pay a little less than the full price thanks L x

Are they awfully hard to learn to use? I got a Nokia 5800 a couple of weeks ago, but it kept developing faults, my sil had, had lots of problems with her's too , so I decided to get something...

I have been in my current job coming up to 7 months. In my previous job at a University, I worked with only women on a daily basis (except for occasional dealings with academics, some of which were...

How many tomato plants can you put in a grobag?

I suppose I'm looking for opinions, experiences and just trying to formulate things in my own head too. Some of you may remember that when I made the decision when I was pregnant not to contact my dad...

I've had hayfevery symptoms most of the weekend, the inside of my nose is sore and <ahem> crusty, and it feels snotty but not like an average cold. Having never really suffered from 'proper'...

I'm trying to organise a short break in October with my sister & brother-in-law and our respective children. There will be 4 adults and 5 children ranging in age from 2 years to 15 years. I'd also...

I really need to get my crappy, rotten wooden windows replaced in my flat but how do I know if a double glazing company is any good? Are any of the nationwide ones like Anglian or Everest any good?...

This is going to sound stupid but when you are making a call and you are asked to make a selection for options how do you selct hash/# during the call? To select # I need to press another button first...

I have my first one booked on wednesday with the doctor. I'm waaaaaaaaay overdue but I've had a couple of false starts with nurses so I thought I'd go with a doctor this time but will she think I'm a...

Preferably under £150 and compact (ish). I am not being rude if I don't acknowledge replies promptly, I an going downstairs soon to watch some (probably dire!) film about the life and times of Diana...

How bad is it anyone know ? is it likely to clear by 6pm tonight

Can anybody give me some advice about changing recipe quantities and cooking times? If I've got a recipe for a 7" round cake can I just work out the area and use that as a proportion of the area of...

Just having a browse around and looking at the One Account. As far as I understand its one big acount where your savings, current account, mortgage, loans and credit cards all work from. Is it too...

(Nigella's recipes unless indicated otherwise) Good: Brining turkeys. It rocks. Fast cooking turkeys. Fast, hot cooking then resting beef - still a winner Her chestnut stuffing. The cranberry sauce....

I know its a long shot but, last night my H switched the diningroom light on and there was a big spark from the light switch, it blew all the lights in the house, none would go on. Today in daylight...

OH is in the TA and next year will most likely be made officer. He's always said if/when he became an officer, he would sign up for a 9 month tour (Iraq or Afganistan). I've tried to be supportive in...

I’m getting myself all stressed out about the in laws coming over for lunch on Sunday. They’ve been to our house once before when we moved in 3 years ago and I’ve seen them possibly 10 times in the...

Yes, I know this is soooo last minute mostly because MrSC only mentioned wanting one last night! He's got me GHDs for Christmas (which I already have due to catastrophic failure of my previous...

Just a bit of advice really. My jimmy passed away 11 days ago and i am still finding hard. I know its too early but his saying was when you get kicked down, you get up again again as life goes on....

Meh. A delivery man came to the door earlier asking me to take in a parcel for next door. I said "yes" even though I wanted to say "no". He said he'd put a card through their letterbox to tell them I...

We are having chilli with potato wedges for dinner and I noticed I have a few sweet potatoes to use up as well so thought I would do a mixture of potato and sweet potato wedges. Do they both take the...

My Plasma TV is broken - well it says 'no signal' on every channel. It has a built in freeview box I think. We dont have sky. It works fine if I want to connect it to the PC and watch BBCI player The...

I thought that finding some plain or striped cotton blouses (preferably coloured rather than white) would be easy but it would appear not. I've looked in the likes of M&S (too fancy) and Hawksead...