Family, Home and Garden

Vote for an Animal Charity to recive £5000 (facebook)

It's a new month so the regular Animal Friends Insurance charity voting thing is back choose between Shropshire Cat Rescue Hopefield Animal Sancturary All Dogs Matter Friends of Inti Wara Yassi Winner gets £5000, 2nd place gets £2000 and the other tw...

Anyone used TV screen cleaning wipes?

My flat screen is filthy. Had a look on google and there are special sprays and solutions to use, however at PC world they sell TV wipes. Just wondered if they were any good. I don't want to ruin my TV

science question

what's the difference between mist and fog?

eilean_dubh

you have a yellow envelope

Which book do you most wish you had written.

As above for me it's The borrowers. Saw a bit of it on the telly today (no where near as good as the book) and I remembered how enchanted I was many years ago when I read it.

Could someone explain the SHADOW ACT?

Just watched the Semi-Finals of X-Factor, and the brilliant Shadow Act. However, I just could not understand the very end. It was very touching, obviously his wife died, but who was the young pregnant lady who he welcomed at the end???? Know I am bei...

A disgusting question.

Was just watching The Wright Stuff on channel5. They were looking at the newspaper stories and one was about a young woman who saved her boxer dog's life by giving it mouth to mouth resuscitation. A couple of the panel were disgusted by this (well, h...

There's Ants In Me Lavenders Pants!!

Had a look at my Lavender today, and I was horrified to see loads of little black ants milling around it the pot Will they damage my plant?? and how best can I deal with them please?? :-x

Not my day!!

Not sure what happened, but my lovely collection of Yorkie ornaments is no more!! I bought a tall glass display cabinet last week to put them in and this morning, all but the top shelf cascaded down on to the ones below, breaking several ornaments (s...

Made cup cakes this morning so my son decided to "help"

Just finished making a batch of cupcakes for my friend's sons 10th birthday party. I told my son what I was doing and he offered to help me...............great I thought...............until he offered to........... lick the bowl clean!!!!!!!!! LOL

Mr E......Do You Fancy One Of These.............

Meet Big Splash, the world’s most expensive dog! The 11-month-old Red Tibetan Mastiff named Big Splash was purchased by a coal baron in northern China for $1.5 million. The ancient breed from central Asia has recently become a status symbol amongst t...

Am soooooooooooooo jealous!!!

of my youngest daughter! She makes me feel very old now, can't think just when my baby turned into a stunning young Lady (well, stunning maybe, perhaps not so much a Lady :^O ) This is another shot from one of her latest photo shoots;

What colour is your front room?

I've decorated every room now. Just the front room to go which is currently a very old and marked magnolia.. urrgh. There is a chimney breast that I could make into a feature wall. I wont be replacing the carpet any time soon, that is a murky green c...

BGT

I'll admit it, not a programme I watch. However I've just had the misfortune to watch the last few minutes of this evenings results show. There is something so wrong with having young children aged 5-8 years pleading to go through the final and cling...

Look what i climbed yesterday

Williamson's Park Memorial

Thursday's Tea Thread

Okay gang, after viewing your Wednesday's tea thread I am thinking fish and chips here tonight. Whare are you all having????

Can I Please Ask You All To Sign This...........

Petition. The government are thinking about cutting down the number of times that we can see our GP's How on earth they think they're going to work this I just don't know. What about people with chronic conditions of which there are Billions of us ?:...

Wednesday's tea thread.................

Well we have'nt had one for a while so what are you making tonight. We are having slow cooked leg of lamb, potato dauphinoise, sugarsnap peas, carrots and red wine gravy

1904 high tea

hi all i work in a residential home for the elderly and in june we are having an open day for all and we have decide to go back to 1904 as that is when the building first opened as a hotel and we are having a marque and we are serving high tea to all...

Gina Just To Let You Know.........

Love and hugs from Mandy :-x

Mice in my 4th floor flat

Hello. I spend my days at home, and about two-three times a day I see a mice running across the room. We had this problem before, we heard them scratching in the bathroom and filled all the possible entrances. Now it's possibly kitchen but we have no...

What's For Tea This Wednesday ?

I haven't got a clue yet really.......but bacon and egg sounds rather nice What are you having ?

MDCC

For those who saw photos of my miniature glass landscapes and owls the other day, you may like to know I have made an owl family today and the first stages of four mini-landscapes. They won't be ready for about three weeks though, as I have to take t...

Stroppy Oppy

Good Luck stroppy... I hope you've got your dongle :-x

noooooo

:_| I've never seen so much rain as it's put down here tonight!!! good grief!! where on earth is the summer, I'm getting right fed up with this weather I don't know about youX-( moosie, I'd watch your lavendars in this weather, they don't like it sog...

pass the botty cream

i has been naughty.:_|:-D:-D:-D

a gardening teaser

I planted a large acer from a tub into the soil. It was put in with a big amount of erricacious compost but I see some of the leaves are wilting and some look as though they are bleached out. Do I need to dig this up...it's about 5ft high and 4ft acr...

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