On a similar topic "Buenchico" wrote: "if a married person (or someone in a civil partnership) dies without making a will (i.e. 'intestate') part of their estate goes to the surviving...
A relative, aged 53, very recently died at home/ in the ambulance/hospital. They had a visit from the police. The person concerned had bypass heart surgery some 18 months previously, and whilst still...
Our existing metal door is the type with a rod and spring (above the door)that goes across the door inside the garage, with metal slide rails down each side.It's is a double garage and I think the...
Whilst visiting my daughter, I found that all the radiators are hot (very), but one radiator in hall on the ground floor is stone cold.The house has four bed rooms. On checking I found that both...
We have a Free View digital TV. We don't have a dish of any kind just a conventional aerial via which we get excellent reception. Because we get Sky Sports news on one of the channels, can anyone tell...
Not sure if anyone saw "Watchdog" and their item on PCWorld and the Techguys. This the same kind of story. New PC fails. PCWorld repairs said computer, fitting new hard drive. My daughter...
Our fridge recently seems to a lot colder than my wife remembers. The dial is numbered "0-7", but there is no indication of which number to set the dial to that would make it colder or not...
I am trying to find out what financial details are taken into consideration when applying for a grant to install "adaptions" for invalid's in a private dwelling. The people I have in mind are in their...
I have been given 2 coordinates for North and West. But to complete the puzzle I need to supply the missing in the following sequence. Can you decrypt, I can't? North 53 deg. 2?17 . 17?6 19?21 West...
I have had my first taste of a car with a Sat Nav. It was a hire car in which we drove from Southampton to Cheshire. A TomTom 1 was supplied with the car. Normally on a long drive, my wife acts as...
How do you adjust the pressure. Having been away for a few weeks, on relighting the boiler, the pressure gauge has dropped from about mid position on the dark gray section of the gauge and is now in...
In October 2008 we invited British Gas to give us a quotation for a new boiler. On making the appointment I warned the call center that I would not tolerate "any hard sell techniques". In due course...
For some months now, in the early evening, our home phone rings. On answering the phone there is always a delay and then a recorded voice message starts to play, usually having some open word like...
Never having had experience of car hire to and from airports I would welcome comments on the following. I need to get a hire car from Southampton Cruise terminal, if possible I would like to collect...
My wife and I live in a 3 bed detached bungalow. We have: 1 bath rm/ wc/ wash basin. 1 ensuite shower/wc/wash basin.Note the shower has a mixer valve and is fed from a twin impellr pump in the loft. 1...
