Family, Home and Garden

Let's be brutally honest !

Is it really worth the effort to try and keep FHG up and running ?In my opinion no !My reasoning being no matter how many threads I would open to try and generate interest hardly anyone comments on them and it all honesty I have no idea what would re...

Resolved! Shopping in Colchester?

Hello, Considering a short visit to this area. Does anyone know the Shopping Town of Colchester? What is the surrounding area like as well? Hopeful, Thank You.

Bake Off Final

Is anyone watching the Bake Off Final tonight? If so, who do you want to win? I'd like Nadiya to win.

A Happy Ending Just For A Change

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034hlcd Best Of Luck To Them

Escaped Gerbils

My 2 gerbils have escaped from their cage, and are now happily running around the living room They are so fast, I cant catch them. I have made a humane mouse trap from a lemonade bottle, but they are totally ignoring it. Any ideas please

Email supposedly from paypal

Be careful of emails that look like they are from paypal I had one today, a receipt for a payment I had not authorised or made. A couple of allerting flagsThe from field only said paypal and did not include the service bitThe email included a link to...

september MDCC

are we doing this or not......i think we should at least go to christmas as this is when the charities do best what do others think.

Did anyone watch strictly saturday night and last night?

I thought strictly was good on saturday night, i thought rod stewart was very good on the stricty last night,

The man that lived beside the A9 .......................

has been moved on after living there for three years.He was up in Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday for bashing a court official with a mug when they went to evict him from his position near a layby near Blair Atholl and he said it is not finished as h...

Have I missed the date for ...........

putting the sprouts on for Christmas dinner ?

Imagine waking in the morning ...........

to find part of your road had disappeared into a large sinkhole ! The people on that street in St. Albans must be worried now about their houses as that sinkhole seems to have appeared overnight although the fire service were already aware of a small...

How many people on Ebay would take a refugee family into there own home?

How many people on Ebay would take a refugee family into there own home?..... I wouldnt.....

What has happened?

What on earth has happened to this board? Has no-one anything to say? I've never been a dedicated FHG poster but I've always read the board and enjoyed many of the topics. Sooooooooooo, how about posting some reasons why those who used to be regulars...

A dog quiz

While we are enjoying quizzes, here's one for the dog lovers. I picked this quiz up in Stranraer last year, it was being sold in aid of a local animal charity, and there was a prize to be won. I am not offering a prize but will make a donation to the...

more puzzles film titles

Cryptic film titles… 1 Australia's top magician?2 Spot the German guy.3 The highest revolver.4 David and Mike are not in debt.5 24 carat piece of anatomy.6 Very cold time long ago7 Weekend illness.8 West 119 Whilst steering avoid flower.10 Saturday.1...

corrie

Did anyone watch corrie last night. I thought it was good.

I need some consumer advice - guarantee

Good evening. I wonder if anyone can offer some advice. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My dear old mum bought a new fridge freezer from a local electrical shop on May 19th this year, last week (16th Sep) it just stopped working. I rang th...

Problem with a car we haven't got!

Our Renault developed several expensive faults, so in June we went looking for another, and bought a Vauxhall. We haven't got room for two cars on our drive, OH took the Renault to a scrap dealer. However, as he has neither a photo driving licence (h...

Where have all the listings gone?

I collect books and other paper materials on China. Each day I enter over 100 search terms, searching for Newly Listed Items. Under the terms "China Books" and "Chinese Books", the search terms with the most listings, there were over 100,000 items, w...

more puzzles for those who missed the others

i will leave this on for a few days before printing the answers.the following are all cryptic holiday resorts1 Drinking ale in front of the posh hotel? (7)2 Wise bedfellow. (9)3 Milk Containers. (5)4 French dance where you replace one of the indefini...

OH in hospital

now packed my hubby's bag as he is going into hospital tomorrow for about 10 days. i can please myself then what i do and what to watch on tv...it will do me good to have a rest.

A hypothetical accommodation question for you all.

If someone from this forum was visiting in your area or contemplating a holiday or would like to visit your area and money was tight and you had a spare bedroom, would you invite them to come and stay with you ?Purely a hypothetical question to try a...

food fads....

do you get fancies for certain foods? atm, I am mad on fruit, the thought of proper meals, meat and two veg, doesn't do it for me.for my tea I've had pineapple and dates, choc mousse with raspberries, yogurt and watermelon....how's that for a fit foo...

august MDCC

is it this sunday.are we still doing it.

alternative sites

I must admit that at first facebook seemed a good idea, but I find it's difficult to keep in contact with people. Unless you stay on one particular thread, you start scrolling down and down and then someone will say something and you have to leave wh...

Need advice on painting walls please.....

I've just stripped all of the wallpaper off walls in the spare room and inevitably this has taken some of the old emulation paint that was behind it off the wall too. I spent most of the day yesterday trying to sand these bits as flat as I could, but...