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How does it work!!! I have only just gone over to Tesco after years of shopping at Asda...which I now refuse to do after a horric experience with their credit card department...but thats another...

Does anyone know any other shops on the high Street that sell plus size clothes apart from Evans, Newlook, Ann Harvey and Elvi. I live just outside Milton Keynes if anyone knows any other shops there...

I've not asked for vibes before on here but as I don't seem to be getting very far, maybe vibes can just swing it for me. Briefly, I worked for a company for over 20 years, got headhunted at the end...

I'm trying to work out whether i'm due a tax rebate or not and don't understand any of it. Help!

I had an appointment later today with my dr. I had planned on getting signed off sick for a couple of days, but after calling my boss i was advised not to go sick and use parental leave. This is due...

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...

I'm looking at retraining to work in accountancy but I'm not sure which course would be the best for me to go for AAT, CIMA or ACCA and are those the main ones? As a background I have a law degree, a...

The time has come again for us to totally misread the financial situation and choose the wrong mortgage. Two years ago I was about to go on ML so we fixed to be safe - the rates have dropped to an all...

1 wicket to win. Come on England! H says he'll take me out for dinner if you win it today...

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I'd like entertaining please. The alternative is [shudder] work. Please save me from a fate worse than death...

H heard today that he didn't get a job he really wanted. The feedback was really positive and they said it had been a tough decision between him and another person and the other person had slightly...

Is how long we have got to wait. All my family are at breaking point at the minute. It all may turn out to be nothing and that is what i am praying for. I'm sorry for burdening the boards with this...

Or am I the only one mad enough to think it's a good idea. I make my triathlon debut this Sunday. Eeep. It's phase one of my efforts to raise some money for the Perthes Association (phase 2 being a...

I'm trying to work out finances and trying to decide what sort of amount is reasonable to live on once i've put in the 'pot' money for mortgage/bills. So anyone that works on a system like this ie....

I have checked on the BERR website but can find nothing relevant with regards to employees rights to taking leave while on consultation for redundancy. Background is that H is on 90 days consultation....

Can anyone offer H some help regarding personality / aptitude tests? He has never had to do one before and is off to a second interview on Thursday where he will have to complete one before the...

Hi All, Just a quickie - does anyone still have a cleaner now we are in a recession or is it something you can live without? If you do, do you mind me asking how much you pay? ? ?

Anyone know when this will be shown on UK TV? We have a freeview box so access to those channels but no Sky. Thanks

Great comedy director. The world would be a sadder place without Uncle Buck!

Http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6735478.ece Hmmmm. There are some absolute stinkers in that list imo. The Time Traveller's Wife? Twilight? TWILIGHT???...

I'm pretty sure you can get newish books in paperback from Airport shops before they go on general release in paperback, but Mr Hole thinks I'm 'having a moment'. There's a book I'd like but it's in...

Not that it is me doing the culling but I think the in-laws, or at least MIL, have culled us. We have had a difficult time with MIL in particular over the past 3 years or so. It looked to be getting...

Has anyone else done one of these? The thread about how much do you spend on your food shopping got me thinking so I have had a look at the last 3 months of credit card and bank statements. I thought...

5am. That fcuking fiasco with the *** boat finished him off. just glad i got to see him last night before the end and that he was able to recognise who people were. rest in peace Michael xx

How often do you have takeaways? On the cost of food thread lots of people were talking about one or two takeaways a week. The last time i had a takeaway was April 28th 2007 ? Living in a small, rural...

Just trying to work out budgets and looking at the last few months we're probably spending nearly £260 (on average) on food for 2 of us. That's a bit much isn't it? Caught the start of the article on...