I'm forty-nineteen, overweight and unfit, so I've decided to start taking some exercise in the new year. Thing is, I'm not sure what to try. I find gym training boring and I'm not really into all this...
How common was the practice of slave taking by the Vikings in what we now know as Britain? Can anyone point me to any trustworthy websites that can back up how common it was? It's to settle an...
Is it possible to use gaming joysticks for standard PC work, i.e. as a 'normal' mouse? I ask because I've been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and am having a workplace assessment done this...
Whenever there's a major earthquake on the other side of the world, we seem to experience high winds in the UK a few days afterwards. Is this coincidental, my imagination, or can earthquakes really...
Can anyone tell me anything about the history of this Northants. town/village, particularly in the 15th and 16th century? I've recently discovered that several generations of my family lived there and...
Does anyone know what the market is like in cigarette cards at the moment? I have six complete sets of Park Drive cards from the 1930s, all in excellent condition. I've found some prices on the net,...
I can already read music, play several instruments and have some rudimentary knowledge of guitar. Now I'm planning to teach myself electric bass. I want to learn mainly rock and blues, sufficient to...
Hi, I have a 9ct gold ring c.1962, set with stones that are probably of very little value. I say 1962 - the assay mark is a sort of italic N, and in the hallmarking council's booklet that indicates...
Is there a difference between the two? I have intermittent pins and needle in my right thumb, index and middle finger and lower forearm. The locum I saw on Thursday said it was probably RSI, which I...
Wonder if anyone can advise me? I'll be 50 later this year. In the early 1990s I paid into the NHS pension scheme for 2 years. Just a few hundred quid in real terms. I wanted to get it refunded when I...
I'm in need of a set of winceyette/flannel pyjamas. I'm a big-ish girl - 44" bust and hips, and I really don't want anything frilly or floral, so a men's set would be fine. Button-through top would be...
I've just been diagnosed with this, in the outer ear, and have antibiotics by way of treatment. It's very sore and swollen, hence I have tablets rather than eardrops. How long before I can go swimming...
For some months now, I have had a small, white lump on my middle finger, between the base of the nail and the first knuckle joint. If I put pressure on it with, say, the handle of teaspoon or the back...
Yet another new poster sees fit to quote the title of their homework title - and nothing else - in A&L in the expectation that we'll do it for them. I wonder whether we could have a homework help...
On the ad (which I believe is from last year) for DAB radio, they recite a poem about the Christmas jumper, unwanted, neglected, alone, forlorn etc. Is there a more complete version of it than what we...
OK, she's 56 and shacked up with a scrap dealer who owns a farm. Her hobbies are shagging the boss, looking after her (very large) dogs and pretending that she's one of the 'county set'. Never cracks...
I had a post crown reseated today for the second time in as many months. It stayed in placed for three years before that and considering it's an upper incisor, it's done well. When my dentist first...
1.1 1994 Fiesta doesn't like starting from cold. When you turn the key in the ignition the engine begins to turn as though it's going to start - and then nothing. We've replaced the plugs and the...
