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I would just do it! We had a driveway when we moved in, but only for one car, so we removed a wall and extended its width across the front of the house. We left a border down the side so there was still greenery. Wall down, dropped kerb extended. The local council's website at the time (the...

It was just funny because I know them so well, and I imagined certain characters there reacting to the thought of being led by the French! I genuinely don't know what French opinion on Frexit is like. Having such dominance in the bloc (along with Germany) probably plays a large part in public...

Knowing both those places very well and being fairly local to me, I know the locals there are majority pro-Brexit. They won't be led the way of the French I can promise you that :LOL: If Le Pen gets into power, then she'll push for it, but in reality I doubt those above her would allow France...

Best get onto the open heart surgery vids then!

I'm a BA and Masters graduate, but wish I'd gone back and learnt a trade with my hands! My Dad trained as a plumber in the 1960s and some of the joins he can do with lead (can't remember the name, and of course totally irrelevant today) are really quite skilled. Although he became French...

Agreed! Did the timing belt, camshaft and seal, water pump and starter motor on mine this year, all on the driveway. Cost me £180 and a garage wanted £800 something.

In truth, I find driving into cities a pain and always use the train or bus, so hopefully that counts. I think the real issue is car addiction. There was a recent spate of roadworks and people were moaning on FB about how long it was taking them to get to work -- a high number were commuting...

I'll still stick with my old French, diesel tractor. Okay it's £300+ a year in tax, but it'll do 800 mile+ to a tank and requires so few consumable materials to keep going. Nobody should be penalised for maintaining an older car, so long as it is safe and roadworthy.

Smells like the bitterness of not getting onto a plumbing course to me, old duffer.

Oh come on... a male parent has for eons been known as a father, a female parent a mother. I bottle fed my son, but it didn't make me a mother, it made me a father doing my bit! I'd still be a father if my wife left me. Is the use of standard English this "outdated model" you refer to? If the...

Christ. Needs a 2023 update to include men who have converted to woman, but who don't have a cervix but want to feel 'inclusive' by going through the screening process.

No they don't have one -- their demand is to be made to feel more inclusive by going through a screening test. I don't know how representative it is of that 'community'. Agree there are stupid people all over!

Really really! It came from a house-bound patient my wife's surgery have on their books (she's a district nurse). Don't know the man/woman but that's what she's complained about to the trust.

There are calls from male transgenders (now female) to be invited to cervical screening tests. Some have said the NHS is not being inclusive by recognising a need for transgender men to have their cervix checked...

Go along with it! We have to use them in our work signatures on our e-mails, so (for the internal responses...) I go with "it". It's all just a game corporations play to make people think they're doing something for 'wellbeing' (not that wellbeing isn't important!)

We encourage certain types of behaviour, yes. I'm not sure what behaviour has to do with challenging biology, though. A man can be a father, yes. He could be a mother if you were not familiar with the rules of English, but he couldn't be one in practice, as he lacks the ability to breast feed...

Get the hosepipe out, discharge water onto the patio nearest the lawn and watch what it does -- that'll tell you what will happen in the rain. Mine slopes away from the house and goes onto the lawn and borders, but if it sloped towards the house I'd have it run into a drainage channel which...

I mean this with the greatest of respect, but I worry about the future my children will grow up in -- this confusing destruction of biological fact, which is leaving so many youngsters' minds in states of identity crises. I recently heard a man talking with another man, where man A was asked to...

That could be financial security for your son. I told my Dad to spend and enjoy all his money (he worked for over 50 years). He's leaving my brother and I the house -- it's a lot of comfort for the future.

You'd love it round our way. We're off a road with speed bumps, which are the standard ones going the width of the road. The amount of cars I've heard and seen smack their sump on the road is unreal, all because they go over one particular bump too fast. There are gorge marks in the tarmac...