Off-Topic Discussion

Guernsey Cattle. Last week in Channel Islands.

It depends very much who your local drivers are. Our current Evri chap is lovely and we haven’t had any problems. The others seem to be different people every time but we haven’t had any problems for sometime. When we first moved in Yodel were dreadful, parcels would be out for delivery and...

There are bacteria and fungi all over the world that can "eat" plastic. The problem is they often have material they prefer to breakdown in the same area. They also breakdown plastics slowly and reproduce slowly. The first researchers to take writable CD's, for data storage, to the Amazon jungle...

I once opened the bonnet of my car, in the garage, and found several apples balanced in nooks and crannies around the engine. Rats are very resourseful and are good at solving problems. In another garden I watched a rat climb onto the top of a dustbin next to a shed, up the side of the wooden...

You must have heard the expression 'hamming it up' when referring to over-acting and doing it quite badly? It doesn't mean 'stupid'. Rosamund is an actress in this particular book.

Not that I liked Boris, but didn't he name Starmer Captain flip flop a long time ago. Starmer just changes policy from one minute to the next. I think he's going to get hammering from his mates the unions in the coming months, he's down as a soft touch.

Vegan "cheese" is generally a complete shocker. Most of the brands are just flavoured coconut oil and starch, with no nutritional value at all. I worry that there's parents sending their kid off to school with a "cheese" sandwich ...

Many years ago on a different Garden website the users were challenged to write stories based on the 10 titles posted. One was to choose one title and post the result. I actually managed to write 7. This one was never really finished until this year (only 15 years or so late). Only 66 pages, but...

When both parents had to work full time (sometimes doing more than one job each) to pay for their mortgage I'm afraid.

@Sheal It's typical of all our 'mainstream' media that they only report the sensational side of the news without checking the facts or the other side of the news.

I have an 18" Toshiba with a built in DVD player that sits alongside my computer screen. I did have a few problems but when I changed the remote control the problems went. Like you Pete I don't like to fiddle with things I don't really understand.

I'm a bit over particular, maybe. I keep food areas awful clean. I looked in the bread bin. The end of a loaf was covered in a pretty apricot mould with fluffy white bits. It scared the BJs out of me. I bleached the bin and the council counter food compost bin.. Then I googled. It's not...

We went from 24 to 48 now 72! I still perspire whichever one I use. This reminds me, we can;t buy deodorant soap here ... but you can buy Fa liquid/shower soap.

Also their Outbox.

Few clips from this morning

Have a stiff drink and go lay down on a nice soft pillow

If there’s a spare leg lying in the road after the event, it makes it difficult to tell who it belongs to.

They don't suffer from Myxomatosis as often as rabbits, then came Rabbit Viral Haemorraghic Fever 1 apparently introduced by landowners as rabbits were developing immunity to Myxomatosis, this didn't affect hares to a great extent. Then came Rabbit Viral Haemorraghic Fever 2 which did affect...

It depends on whether a knife is used to spread it or a spoon to dollop it on. I'd go with clotted cream first and against tradition - blackcurrant jam.