Isn't it about time to rationalise all these spring bank holidays in quick succession? We've only just had Easter, next Monday is a BH, to be followed 3 weeks later by another one. A good start would...
I have a new free-standing electric cooker with a double oven. The main oven has a fan but......the fan goes off when the oven has reached the set temperature and only kicks in again when the temp...
Recently I became aware that emails sent to me from a regular friend were not arriving - not via the BT site using Chrome, not via Mozilla Thunderbird, not via gmail on my tablet. When I accessed the...
My opposite neighbour in his new-build house has very obtrusive outside lights (this is in a Conservation Area in a village where the street lights go off at midnight). When I first spoke to him re...
I bought some hot-smoked salmon in Waitrose yesterday - it was heavily reduced as the "use by" date was 29 Dec. I'm intending to eat it today or tomorrow in the 100% sure knowledge that it will be...
Why is there an explosion of bad taste xmas lights just about everywhere - flashing coloured lights, illuminated reindeer and santa projections on outside walls??? Should be a law against it to...
This morning, Tuesday 13th November, there was an official poppy seller still selling them in Sainsbury's. What on earth is all that about? (I wanted to post something stronger but feared it would be...
Yes I know that 11/11/2018 marks the centenary of WW1 but why the OTT appearance of giant poppies everywhere - on bus-stops, whole villages etc etc. Do we recognise the Battle of Waterloo and...
Is it because people don't want to do a spoiler for those who may have recorded it but not yet watched? I thought it would be the talk of CB this morning!
Fed up with robot phone calls saying my broadband connection will be terminated tomorrow unless I ............at which point I hang up. Oddly enough I still have my broadband connection!