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My parents confiscated my wooden clogs after I realised they could be used as weapons if thrown with a skill. My sister and I are nowadays in good terms.Scissors were out of bounds too. I thought my parents would support budding engineering skills when I used a pair of kitchen scissors to...

Thank you didn't do much just had a day in the garden . Normally sow tomatoes on my Bday but haven't got round to it yet, maybe tomorrow

Thank you for reminding me ,it’s great to have two birthdays a year. That’s how it works ,we are told not to give our true birthday on line. I am Scorpio. THANKS.

Maybe if I had close family living far away Zoom/Skype/or whatever would be a good idea for me too, but I only have a few relations and some of those are not very communicative anyway, so I don't know why I thought about it in the first place, and I've decided not to bother with it.

Feliz aniversario Bella from Van, Munchkin and The Squeak.

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They are pretty thorough here and have been doing it for years.

I have just mastered how to set the timer on my new oven. It is a Bosch one which should be a good make. For a start my husband cannot read the marks on the knob as they are so small. Why do things have buttons which go like this: Press once for X, twice for Y and three times for Z then you have...

High fibre intake gives you the runs, whereas high fibre providers usually give one the runaround.

Goodness me that is terrible My mum witnessed the Scarborough blitz when german mines were dropped on the town, I still have a piece of the silk parachute cord used to float the mines down, she salvaged afterwards. Her sister was working in the munitions factory they were going for at the time...

Would a gabled lid work FC? The front half could have the holes in that Mrs FC could access more easily.

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Ahh! But I was talking about @pete I don't think AI has got that advanced yet

I came across this today. Unbelievable!!!!! MSNUrgent need for new missiles. In short they refurbished 2700 units stored as "unservicable" and produced 1900 updated units at a saving of $50k per unit ($95 million in total) Unservicable means it cannot be serviced, not that has a fault. If it...

Well we spoke to a different person this morning and it seem's to be sorted, they stopped the 1572 service yesturday afternoon and the guy said he would ring back but he didn't hence we rang this morning and he restarted the service and i rang 1572 to see if it was working then i went the the...

I have used a company for the DNA stuff a few years back. Very disappointed, they did not tell me anything I did not already know. My cousin used the same one about 2 years ago, they did not alert me that she was tied to me via my email.

Thanks for all suggestions. All gratefully received and appreciatedThe spout is very narrow and bendy, and there's a sort of 'belly' at the bottom of it, and that makes it difficult to get any cloth or kitchen roll down it, or to rotate anything inside it. I've even tried wire plant ties but...

Thanks for all suggestions, I will have a think about them