We’ve got a very bad problem with damp and mould in our house which has only just become noticeable. I’m sleeping in one of the rooms with the problem. My son’s room is worse, but he’s not...
When did you learn to swim, if ever? Were you taught at school, by parents or did it come naturally? I only learnt at the age of 26 when a neighbour taught my son in her pool. During school swimming...
Not a very well known lady, but very sad just the same. The wife of former England cricket captain, Andrew Strauss, has died aged just 46. Two little kiddies left behind. Heartbreaking....
I've been applying for jobs and get the dreaded 'what would you do?' scenario which I have to answer online. They are things like 'Your manager wants you urgently to complete some work, but you've...
Just had a weird memory lapse similar to Smowball's a week or so ago. I was turning up a pair of trousers with Wonderweb, did one leg, went to do the other but found I'd already done it. Felt very...
Is there a typo somewhere in this puzzle? The letters are MUGDROWN. I've put it in various anagram solvers but can't find an 8-letter word. Am I looking at it wrongly, or being daft in some way? Thank...
You might have seen a bit on the news about an accident on the M5 in Somerset today. Earlier, my colleague was looking on his phone and read about the accident, saying two people had died. I was very...
My home phone rang this yesterday. It was an automated vocal text message. It addressed me by my real first name and said that my urine samples had been sent off successfully. I haven't had a urine...
I have a ticket for an event that I can't go to. I'm just about to list it for sale on eBay and Viagogo. What bothers me is that it's a home printed ticket with my name on it. People sell tickets all...
I've just been sent by an agency details of a job that I'm interested in. However, it specifies a maximum age of 35. (I'm over 35). I thought it was illegal to discriminate on grounds of age. Am I...
This has been all over Twitter but I haven't seen it here so I thought I'd bring it up. Melania went to Texas, to visit the poor kids separated from their parents in the immigrants detention centre,...
Every time someone answers the current 'Now we know' thread I hear that phrase said in a slightly sinister way coming from a tv programme. I can't for the life of me think which one, and it's driving...
The other I was buying food for the protein phase of my diet, and decided to get some jarred cockles. After I'd eaten them I couldn't help drinking the whole vinegar solution left in the jar. Gosh, it...