I have never driven, and it would be a concern to be sent anywhere other than the big hospital in my home town. However most areas do have...
Most people who retired just after 2016 won't have got the full new state pension. Transitional rules were in place for years. I will retire under...
You get a smaller Basic state pension but you had the opportunity to accumulate State Second Pension, or SERPS. So a person on purely state...
Coal tit in the garden this morning. The ground in the back garden has yet to be touched by a sunbeam, but the tops of the trees were getting the...
Thanks for the warning. The neighbourhood cats like to poo on my front lawn, I'll make sure I don't put any comfy ornamentals in!
When my toaster died I replaced it with a Ninja Foodi mini oven. No more digging out stuck slices, or cutting slices to fit. It can do 8 slices at...
Never seen a goldcrest on a feeder before! I get them but they dart around at the tops of the trees. I get plenty of coal tits, they are obsessed...
This bleeding cough that won't completely clear up.
My Instantpot electric pressure cooker.
Last year the great tits had a nest in one of my boxes and were busy bringing in food. Then it suddenly all stopped, much too soon. I'm pretty...
I installed a small pond in May, and had some concern as to how I would top it up if the water levels fell (being in the least accessible part of...
I can remember my mum leaving me alone when I was pre-school age - and then giving me a right telling off when she came home to find me scared and...
I imagine the power companies are working flat out to fix the lines though. What more can they do?
For the mobile, it's a good idea to buy a powerbank and make sure you charge it when the storm is due. Of course you've then got to hope that the...
Got some misdelivered mail today - correct house number, wrong street. Normally I'd just bung it back in the post box next time I passed one (and...
That was my initial reaction, then I read the article and it seems it's something the pension firms actually want to happen.
Just had a massive hailstorm, turned the ground white. Poor wood pigeon was sat in the tree.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sky has finally cleared, ground is absolutely sodden. A flexitub that I emptied yesterday now has at least 2 inches of rainwater. Birds are all...
Sky is black in the west, brighter in the east and the sun has just come out.
I have a small patch grown from bulbs planted about 3 years ago and they are flowering now. Mind you looking at the state of the garden today I...
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