You just gave me a shudder, remembering the smell when the assistants in Woolworths wiped down the glass counters with meths, which were at face...
My mate and I have just paid the balance on our (UK) birdwatching trip in May. We're assuming the same as always: unless one of us is unwell,...
They sometimes negotiate with welfare advisors too. They really shouldn't be pressuring people to make an instantaneous decision like some dodgy...
My solution at my old house was to ask my home help to change the beds in both bedrooms, and I'd sleep in one for a week and then move to the...
As far as I'm aware, no-one's saying that there's a problem at the moment – I might have missed something, though. One of the difficulties with...
Yep, along with the fact that the 14% figure will probably change as more work is done. It could be far fewer people...or many more.
Yes! We used to pester our mum for that suspiciously bright orange fizz. :laugh: (We never got it, except one time my dad bought it by accident...
Tee hee! I struggle with the duvet cover sometimes, and I'm not severely affected – I've recently found myself flirting with the idea of going...
This is a serious point, and if the virus does spread widely in the UK, I'm hoping it's dealt with. People living with or caring for an...
:laugh::laugh: The worrying thing is that I remember it being quite nice – God only knows what the rest of my diet was like if that was one of...
One particularly memorable effort from my bedsit days in the 1970s was made from onions, a tin of tomatoes, some slightly rubbery carrots, plus...
I can't say I am, on a personal level at least. I probably won't change my routine unless I'm told to do so to protect others, or buy anything...
People think I started school in the 1760s rather than the 1960s when I tell them we learnt to write on little green slates! We had them all the...
I'm confused. Is the PWME in the trolley? If so, why are they wearing a Manhattan diagram as a hat?
Presumably this would improve if, as seems possible, the virus escapes control measures and becomes pandemic? It's the containment effort rather...
The basic out-of-work benefit in the UK is less than £4k per year for a single person, though that doesn't include housing costs. People with...
I'm not sure I could press hard enough to do that these days! :laugh: I have a fat pen with an angled barrel, so I barely need to grip it all,...
At Christmas, a friend with ME was talking about how much she struggles to write these days. A couple of weeks ago I bought her a fountain pen as...
It's be really dangerous, so I'm not at all surprised it can be an ME trigger. There was an outbreak of it some years ago where I used to live,...
Limescale: dry surfaces after use, including the shower head – I unscrew it, wipe it with a cloth, and leave it to dry. I keep a dry cloth next to...
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