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Slighty rounded allen key hole

Is there any tool you can use to undo a slighty rounded allen key bolt (5mm and made of alloy)

Preparing Walls

I have just stripped two layers of paper from my walls and was planning to re-paper them with lining paper and paint them to avoid costly re-plastering. The walls have some kind of paint on them which...

Headtime

Vacuum/Hoover/Dyson?

Desperately need to replace our ageing, and possibly life-threatening vacuum cleaner. Are Dysons worth the extra dosh? They're at least ?100 more than other makes. Are they the business and is the...

brawburd

Red Wine

The most important part of your daily fluid intake........... but, does price mean anything? Would you pay ?40 for a bottle of wine? I think I'm doing well if I go over a fiver ....

sft42

AARRGGGHHH!

5 Bleedin' riddle questions and 8 Dale winton questions in the P&P section.....I mean really folks.....If you have access to a computer and can use the internet it must show some level of intelligence...

simon_says

Are our non-Scottish Answerbankers...

interested in, or even aware of, the Scottish Cup Final that is taking place this ( Saturday ) afternoon? I know that some people in Northen Ireland will have a vested interest but that is a different...

cucumbers

old ice

My dear aging mother has been wondering recently how people used to produce ice prior to the invention of freezers and similar machines. we know that ice was imported and distributed on a large scale...

Charlie07

why do we get pain?

what happens when we do? i mean what goes on inside the body and what reactions does the body give??

WaldoMcFroog

Weapons of Missingness

Any comments about the yesterday's news ('scuse pun) re Iraq: 'US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said Iraq may have destroyed its weapons of mass destruction before the US went to war against...

ANUSHIKA

Holidays for young people

My brother and his 3 friends who are all about 18 want to go away in torquay (devon) in a holiday cottage or flat, so far we have had no luck cause a lot of places won't take single sex bookings...

nancyn

Sport

Tim Ellis paid ?13,00 for round of golf with who, C hildren in Need 2002,

m4roon77

boring big brother question.

hello all, i've not seen any of the new big brother (and dont intend to) but i have heard that one of the female contestants is divorcing a 1st division footballer at the moment....is this true? if...

cucumbers

cat called Moses?

Does anyone know of a song with lyrics like ' Jesse , bring you the car and Moses , and drive real fast ' or something like that. The song is about a guy calling his girlfriend and saying i am fed up...

pinklaz

everton 1984

Which Sky Sports personality scored in Everton's FA Cup Final win in 1984?

Diogenes

Workload

Who are the most and least prolific major artists in popular music?

aquachick

Foods with iron

Does anyone know what kind of foods have a lot of iron in them? I am told to eat more, what does iron do for you exactly?

Tizzy

Interesting sandwich fillers?

Holidays are here and i now have to get some summer work ..... but i get so bored of the lunches i end up taking ... any suggestions anyone? It could be sandwich fillings, different salads, pasta...

xyzzy@bok

Junk Food

They make nice chocolate. And coffee. So why is nearly all the food that's available primarily pure junk; e.g fish portions, fishfingers, fishcakes, burgers, sausages, meatballs, nuggets.. its all...

fionah

kitchen dilemma - who should I hire?

I need a section of worktop removed to fit my Smeg fridge in the kitchen, plus the electric hob and built-in gas oven also need removing to makr room for my freestanding cooker. Is there such a thing...