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7pm BBC4 tonight, 'A garden in Snowdonia', Bodnant

I'm doing wall and floor tiles but I've never done any before. I hire cutting tools from the tool library

They look more like wensleydales to me.

Happy Birthday ! I hope things will get easier for you ...

I spoke to my mum and she said that my grandmother was almost scammed by the same scam we are talking about now (ie police wanting cash to check if it's counterfeit), or the one I read linked above anyway. It turns out it was far longer than tens years ago though, so it's very frustrating that...

I've also got ostecelerosis and tinnitus and have had NHS aids for about ten years. I don't like the look of them but I have tried a few privately bought sets and all were worse functionally than the NHS ones. That included a pair that were £6000 or so.They did upgrade my set to a pair that...

I once harboured ideas of going into farming. My fathers family had farming roots in Kent, one Uncle had a smallholding on the outskirts of Croydon. When the whole vally was bought up for housing I was apalled, but he always said it was the best days work he ever did. With the benefit of 20:20...

No I don't think so, or it would have said what it was advertising, but it was just a sign saying 1/- on the front of the pump. It was quite big. Maybe it was there from many years before, the garage was old. When the price went up the 1/- sign disappeared but the petrol was 1/6 and then half a...

Thank you @Bluejayway

For all those bemoaning modern drama fear not! To celebrate its fortieth anniversary BBC4 is repeating Edge Of Darkness. Quite simply one of the greatest series of all time

What about RHS Wild in the Garden Diary 2026 just &13.99 with a few pkts of seeds inside , just looked at it online or Sarah Ravens Diary a bit cheaper. My OH every year in my stocking gets me a Diary to keep check on things not a posh though !!

So sorry to hear your news Selleri. My mother-in-Law moved in with us when this started to happen to her. Then when things became worse she had to move into a care home. So here are a few tips if this has to happen. Make a list of those ones that take in residents and keep them if they...

I can't see a thread covering this type of thing so thought I'd start one.We were at Birmingham Airport on Monday, going through the Fast Track security channel. We'd scanned and gone through when the security guy stopped my wife. "Can I see your Fast Track document please?" My wife handed...

Great thread, especially on a very dull wet day.

Yes. If it was a long blade you should then tilt the angle of the blade, handle raised very slightly, on the stone as you go round the curve. On a short blade it doesn't really matter much.

Am currently reading "Human-ish: How Anthropomorphism Makes Us Smart, Weird and Delusional" by Justin Gregg. Am really enjoying it. Entertaining, informative, and written in a very engaging style! I recommend it.

The ditch that run's near here is a brown colour when it rains, may be they would like to come here a do some enforcing

Marvellous @Ante1 . He loves it, he looks so content.

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Talking about traditional English words:-Banish the use of the four-letter words! Whose meanings are never obscure. The Angles, the Saxons, those hardy old birds, Were vulgar, obscene and impure. But cherish the use of the weaselling phrase That never quite says what you mean. You’d better...