When I turn on my laptop I get a message saying One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. (disk C which is the hard drive) It gives me about 9 seconds to cancel the checking and then I...
I have read that scientists have reconstructed the plague genome from the dental pulp and bones of plague victims buried in London. If the disease killed people in an average of three days, how come...
I can`t remember the username or password for my Windows Mail. The computer has always remembered it because the box is ticked. For some reason within the last 30 mins, I am now being asked for my...
They say your skin, muscles and bones (and probably other things) thin with age. Does the lens in the eye thin? If it does, could there be problems in older age if the lens has had laser surgery for...
I`ve got a Dieffenbachia in the living room that I`ve had for years and it`s done really well but it has outgrown itself and gone straggley. I will probably have to get rid of it so I would like to...
Is it time to start culling Canada Geese? I went down to the river today where there is a pontoon next to the riverside where people can launch their kayaks/canoes. It was completely covered with...
I`ve got 140G of blackberries, 250G whortleberries (wild bilberries) a lemon, some preserving sugar and some pectin. I`ve been googling recipes and I need to cobble two together, probably. Everyone...
I did two loads of washing this morning with no problem. The third load this afternoon won`t spin. All I get is the slow spin that you get right at the end of a cycle before the machine switches...
What`s the latest thinking on echinacea? Yesterday I spent an afternoon with a friend who has pneumonia and pleurisy (for the second time in less than two years). We were talking about ways she could...
I was "done" by the council car with the camera on the roof in December 2009. I`ve just found out from the shop owner where it happened that the local council has paid out a fortune to...
Re: Norton Antivirus. Every now and again I get a little balloon that comes up at the bottom of my screen that says Norton - background activity
What does that mean?...
My evergreen clematis which flowers in February has come out in flower again. Due to the terrible weather we`ve been getting, it thinks it`s winter! Has anyone else noticed the same?