Family, Home and Garden

A Little Help If Possible Please...

Hi. When my husband returns from work a little nearer Christmas we'll be doing a shop for our local foodbank, but including lots of goodies like selection boxes or stockings for the children, along with other treats for the adults as well as the stap...

King of the Jungle????

So the final two are Kian and David. At the start of the programme David was favourite to leave first - now he is in the last two. I think I want Kian to win....but David has proved to be such a lovely kind human being that I am not bothered if he wi...

So what colour.......

Will your Christmas be this year? I only ask as I went to a garden centre today and they had a tree decorated in lime green and bright orange...... not colours that make me think of Christmas.... or am I just getting old(er)?..... oh ......mine will ...

DOES ANYBODY KNOW?

HI ALL, does anybody know,if i could charge the council for putting their property on my land?,they are forcing us to have wheelie bins,and i do not want the ugly things,they will make my garden ugly. also having to pay full council tax,yet they are ...

Calling Chicken Grandma.......

You have an henflop....

Christmas TV

Just purchased the Christmas TV guide and had a very quick flick through. Must say I am looking forward to two favourite sitcoms that are being reinvented. Still open all hours - is a one off with Granville and his son Birds of a Feather - new 6 part...

Lottie says....................

You do realise it's gone Bonio time don't you mum!!!

The christmas festivities start for me today

The countdown to christmas starts for me today. The first full weekend in December is always my local villages' Christmas Tree Festival. It is fabulous. Many local companies, organisations and local people decorate a tree - the setting is in a church...

Aldi advert!

This made me roar with laughter lant night when I saw it. The dog thought I had gone mad. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/05/aldi-champagne-christmas-advert_n_4389548.html

quiz help please

clue... is the oil tester a bit stupid... 8 letters starting with D

calling CAPTAIN BOVINE!!.

I received the smilies you sent and thank you DARLING so much iw will do and send back.

Diet conundrum

Due to medication, a friend has been told by doctor not to eat any green leaf vegetablesShe asked about cauliflower florets and was told not to eat those either. She then asked about red cabbage, and doctor was totally stumped by that one.

Here I am again for another moan!

Apologies in advance, but I really feel I'm losing the plot now. Further to my recent' being sick in everyone's bucket thread ( relating to 3 deaths in family in 6 weeks and problems with my son and his wife, my youngest step daughter (aged 41) has a...

Sincere condolances to Fionajohnston on the loss of her brother in Glasgow

Don't know if this is the right thing to do, but felt I had to say something, such a sad day, Our hearts go out to Fiona and her nieces on the loss of Fionas brother. RIP

Coooooeeeeee coo ................ oh CB

YHM ................... up there ^^^^

Calling all Worms

Calling all worms can you please make your way down the worm hole please

Saving Mr Banks

Don`t normally recomend films, but went to see Saving Mr Banks last night at the local flea pit, Emma Thomson and Tom Hanks on top form.Tells the story about the Disney film Mary Poppins and its author, very funny and moving (yes, I did have a bit of...

Fantastical Fridays Feastibles

Nice and easy tonight. We are both having Iceland's thin and crispy cheese and tomato pizza. His is having extra ham and pineapple and on mine I am putting extra mushrooms, red peppers, red onion, sweetcorn and pineapple. He will have his as pizza on...

Rat problem - update

Well, I have still got rats! It appears to me that they have made their home under my shed (I'm saying "they" because there probably is more than one) We have blocked any gaps in under the shed, but the rats have started gnawing the peices of wood we...

Yodel

Has anyone had any experience of Yodel deliveries please? Two parcels on two different days last week, left with neighbour and no card left. Waiting for a delivery today - nothing arrived and the website says it can't find my parcel when I put my tra...

Is it me that Buys Treats

I know i have not got a big family or anything but is it just me that buys treats for myself at Christmas?, ha ha ha. Perhaps im having an attack of Guilt!!!!!!!! ha ha . I buy a few boxes of choccies and crisps or some special desserts ,,. JUST FOR ...

nelson mandela

RIP Nelson Mandela. A true hero and man of principle. ‪

these pups made me laugh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/25231134

Rather windy tea time treats for Thursday

Jacket spuds with beans, cheese and sausage tonight

Special Xmas message for Facebook users

Thank you, for keeping Me informed on your Timeline, on what you've bought for Xmas, especially the expensive items, really enjoyed all your updates of all the bargains purchased and for the photo showing me where to go to find the Tree, when I break...

I'm so chuffed!!!

The Round Table came around the road tonight collecting for their Christmas charity work, and Santa came over the garden to peer into the window at my tree and the swag on the fireplace he was really very complimentary!!I will now have a great Christ...

Jungle - who do you want to win?

I would like either Joey (who I have really taken too after thinking at first he was a bit of a male bimbo!) or Kian. Glad Matthew is out, he was too smarmy and a stirrer.

helecopter crash

i am not strongly religeous person but ask i all who are please say a prayer of hope for me my brother is missing, his girl-friend got out safelyi am sitting here 400 miles away frustrated with tears running down my face praying and hoping against ho...