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Does anyone watch? What are you thinking of the new series?

I keep seeing this advert for the initiative to get women into sport. What do you all think about it? I think the advert itself is pretty vague, and it never says what it's backed up with. It's...

Has anyone got a recommendation for one which they use and are happy with? I use a Clinique one, which I am happy with, but I only like to buy Clinique when they have bonus time on, plus I like trying...

Well, we had the thread asking what you think of Valentines day, but I was wondering whether you followed through. Did you ignore it as planned, or was your house full of flowers and chocolates? There...

Just wondering if any of you do your Christmas shopping in January ahead of the following Christmas? for the past few years I've always said I'm going to do it but never have, this year I am totally...

I am a romantic person and I will get my husband a small gift but I do think it's a money making scheme. When i was single I hated the 14th February! What are your feelings about this day???? X

Along the theme of a few of the weightloss posts.... I have joined MFP again, and am now on day 3. I do find it quite motivating to keep the eating down a bit. My biggest downfall is eating when I'm...

I normally love a bit of online shopping, I order what I want, it arrives, job done (except clothes, where I try them on and send half of them back) but i'm now on my third attempt for one of H's...

Hi all, I don't usually post things like this but I could do with some impartial advice. Firstly, you should know that I'm reasonably confident my HR department regret the day they offered me the...

Am I the only one who hates them? Recently I have become increasingly disenchanted with wearing an underwired bra, they are so uncomfortable! I now take my bra of the minute I get through the door and...

So, I have, on a whim, signed up to be an Avon lady. It's never going to make millions, or thousands, or much at all from what I can gather, but it's manageable around my Little Ones, plus the...

Hi all, I'm just wondering, and I'm sure it can't just be me, but how do those of you who work full time and your fiancees work full time manage your housekeeping? I am really struggling and it's...

Been trying (not very hard) to lose a few lbs for my brother's wedding in a few weeks. As part of my pitiful attempt to lose weight I decided to cut out mid-week drinking. Don't get me wrong, I don't...

It's results day, just in case you didn't know!! My lovely daughter will collect her GCSE results at 10am and I'm so nervous for her!! Can you send some of the famous Otter vibes our way please....

If you were on a tight budget, would you consider borrowing a wedding dress off someone?

As you know, I am going home very soon. It's been a long time, and I am really looking forward to it. I know my mum is excited, but at the moment she is doing a really good job of reminding me why...

What a sad act i am!! Unable to get to sleep because work stuff keeps buzzing round my head & then I remembered I forgot to put my email 'out of office' on before I left work ( i have Tomorrow off...

My boss plays loud music all day every day. Usually it is classical music. Funnily I used to quite like classical music before I started working here, now after being forced to listen to it constantly...

My neighbour has a small dog. They have previously had a couple of big dogs which disappear within a few months and I have been really glad because this neighbour leaves the dogs outside the whole...

For those of you who have already got there what did you do for your 30th? Mines coming up early next year and oh keeps pestering me about what I want to do but I've got no idea!

I normally read a lot of crime novels but I'm looking for an author that writes something a bit light hearted. I'm not keen on full on 'chick-lit,' if I wanted something more light-hearted I'd...

I wanted to start this post with so but made sure I didn't so Panj didn't come and kill me? This morning I dropped my son off at Holiday Club so that I could go to a hospital appointment. When we...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/terribly-sexist-comments-women-have-heard-at-work so c'mon, appall us. What sexist comments have you faced at work? I had a a manager make reference to the fact...

So because, my bil is so busy at the moment but i want my hair cutting later i left for work at 7am and was then behind a car that ran over a bin man!! god i feel sick!! the car did stop and the lad...

Appropriate office wear? Discuss.

I normally just shave the old ladygarden however the recent warm weather is making it a bit.....sweaty, which in turn is causing a lovely shaving rash- not a good look for a bikini. What do you ladies...

Hey Otters, newbies and lurkers alike. I've been AWOL from Hitched for a while so Hi! As many of you know, I had a pretty rough time last year and early this year when we suffered 3 miscarriages in 12...

Inspired by the DCM/umbrella/whose wedding is first? conversation, and because we don't all have tickers/sigs and sometimes it's hard to know who is an old married or newly married or about to be...

I've not long finished watching Breaking Bad (I'm seriously missing it!!), so to fill the Heisenberg shaped hole in our lives, we have started watching Game of Thrones. I'm two episodes in and I am...