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Hi, we live on a corner plot and have a small garage at the back of the house BUT no dropped kerb to it and a lamp post almost in front of it (!). We know we could pay to get the kerb dropped and even...

We're thinking of having a week away somewhere in the UK in October and think the Norfolk coast might be the best bet for semi-reasonable weather! Does anyone have any recommendations - either of...

Just a quick one. I was going to put a reply on CBH's thread but it didn't feel to right to crash it! We've been on the market since April and had 3 viewings and no offers. I think the problem might...

Sorry, couldn't think of a better way to explain in the title. I was hoping that someone might know about this. Basically I was paid for 3 months work when I had resigned from my job but they hadn't...

We have just had an offer accepted on a flat with electric storage heaters. Not our preference obviously but was just wondering how they work and what the pros and cons are? The agent said they store...

Sorry for the very low series of posts on here. We've just been thrown a real curveball - my oldest boy's great grandad died on Saturday night - very sad, but not entirely unexpected. Boy1 isn't too...

How easy is it to get time off if you are on the rota to be working, or even on call on a given day? Say it was for an extremely important family event - a one-off for a very close family member? It...

Hello, H gets made redundant on Friday (eek) so we are losing his company broadband at home. I've been investigating and Plusnet is coming out quite cheap (need standalone broadband as tied in to BT...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has any experience or advice on getting a mortgae for a 2nd property, with the plan to rent it as a holiday let? There doesn't seem to be a mortgae for this type of...

MrSC has decided to buy a bike with his birthday money, and I think I'll join him. I can get one through the Cyclescheme at work so will probably do that. MrSC will be using his only on weekends so...

Cant be bother to make you all guess. Peter Andre is in the building!!! My dopey friend bumped into him coming into the lift in a lawyers building in the city. (My building but we're on the only floor...

Our driver is potentially interested in buying the business (presumably because anything is better than actually working for me and there are no toilet scrubbing opportunites locally ?). However, she...

Ok, I went to Hobbycraft last night and it was awful - hardly anything in stock and the staff weren't very helpful. Typical really as we have a proper cake making shop not too far away but their...

I'm thinking this is potentially a 'piece of string' question. We currently live in a coach house (or detached flat as it is officially known) which is leasehold. We have 82 years left on the lease....

Afternoon all, As above really. Not fussed about cuisine, but would like somewhere with a great atmosphere, where we can spend the whole evening. Somewhere with outside seating would also be good....

Followed by "and they deliver for free you know".... We had been discussing Woolworths ? Share your mumisms here.

We need to buy a new cooker for when we move into our new house. We've always had built-in appliances before but with me doing a lot more cooking recently we've decided that we'll splash out (with a...

H was hit by a lorry in a car accident before xmas, and despite the fact the car was a total write off amazingly he walked away with just a broken hand - he was extremely lucky given the impact of the...

Is this madness? My mum has someone who wants to rent her house, it's the daughter of a close friend. Is there a need to use an agency? L xx

I'm really confused and actually quite pissed off. The hearing in my left ear has really diminished. It feels like I've got a glass over my ear, it's very muffled. I've got very bad tinitus in that...

Hello, I wonder if anyone knows the website where you can type your height/weight etc in and it will give you a generated body ( you can then alter it to show what you would look like at your prefered...

I already have my own website which was really easy to set up but it's a complete pain to edit and add to (esp. the shop part) which packages do you use/companies that have built them for you? I am...

I thought I would do this tonight with some bread and some onion chutney. The cheese I ahve bought is in a cardboard tub but its in plastic too. Help?

Hi all, I started working in my current job 4 weeks ago. We close tomorrow for chirstmas, not returning until the 5th Jan. I have just been told that i have to take holidays for the days i am off over...

Got somebody visiting in a few days time and need to provide a lunch for him (simple cold lunch, sandwiches and such). He's asked for a kosher meal. Is normal bread and cheese good enough? Any other...

In Wednesday's metro there was a feature on gift ideas. One of the ideas was a knit your own corsage kit that looked pretty funky. I wanted to buy it for a stocking filler so ripped out the details....

I've recieved 2 CVs from France today asking to work on my cruise ships. They had misspelt the address, it was accurate, but no postcode. I've googled Gamex which is the co they were writing to, but...

I don't really know what I'm expecting to get from writing this here but I think I just need to get it all down and admit a few things to myself. I have ME, have had for nearly 9 years, it's meant...

If so, do you/they have a 2nd job as well, and is this declared to the Inland Revenue? Just pondering as H is a firefighter and about to start doing a 2nd job and we wanted to know the tax...

Where do you host your site? And if I may be cheeky, how much do you pay? I'm currently paying £64 every 6 months for a three page site. Nothing interactive on it, just text and a few images. I'm sure...

Has anyone been on these and would you recommend them? We're considering doing either the "Haunted London" or "Jack the Ripper" walks in a couple of weekends, and wondered if anyone had any...