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Help! The tiler about to start my floor tiling has tried to remove some very old lino but can't get rid of the old adhesive. He has even tried a blow torch but even that didn't work. Anyone got any ideas?

Kola Kubes with a chewy centre Tom thumb drops (like sherbet pips but not fizzy) Space dust (popped and fizzed on your tongue) pipped at the post by a mod! Merry Maid toffees

Thanks once again Thermo I'll give it a go

My patio slabs have gone the usual pale green colour with what looks like white splash marks (I assume this is another fungus). Can anyone recommend the best way to clean them without resorting to using a power spray?

Does anyone know if there is a new EU ruling which states that those kind gentleman who repair our highways and byways need to have the use of a portable toilet sited nearby? One appeared in my road yesterday, on a council maintained grass verge opposite my driveway (nice) for workmen in the...

Even our local estate agent uses "4 Sale" on their "For Sale" boards.

Help! I've sprinkled winter feed & moss kill over my lawn but forgot to water it in and now the grass has died in quite a few areas. Will it grow back or will I have to re-seed in the spring? Anythimg I can do to remedy the situation. We have now had loads of rain so it is well watered in.

I am in the middle of having my hallway redecorated and thinking of having a dado rail fitted. The problem I have is what height should it be? The decorator says below windowsill height but I don't think that will look right as there will be a gap of about 3-4 inches between windowsill and...

It matters little. What is obvious from the report and the response to the report is that the cost is going to be enormous and is going to hit us all where it hurts most. Once we start paying a dubious "green tax" on certain things it is another way for the government to collect even more...

Now look you chaps. We girls have to put up with all the pain and discomfort of periods every month, the ordeal of childbirth, followed later by the ups and downs of the menopause, which we all accept as our lot, without complaint, :wink: while you men don't have any such grief. So if you...

Once again the doom-mongers are in the news. Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the government to produce a report stating the effects on the world of global warming if we all sit back on our (obese) bottoms and do nothing. The results are due to be published shortly, but in a nutshell it...

When I were a lass way back in the ..... well a long time ago anyway, the new teaching aid at the time was ITA or Infant Teaching Alphabet. Phrases such as "I like my cat" would become "I liek mi kat" with the ie joined together as a new double letter. Then when we had got to grips with all...

Alas poor Yorick! I knew him (well)

Ok can all you clever chaps out there explain to me why, when the price of gas ( or anything) goes up it is always instant, but when it goes down, as in the case of gas at the moment, we have to wait 6-9 months to feel the benefit in our pockets?

They were banned from my school. What about Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass? What was all that about? Where is he now? Is he still alive?

Anything by Yardley.

Trouble is, everybody just keeps on "moving the goalposts" grrrr. Nearly forgot the latest one seems to be "it's an emotional rollercoaster".

Columbo Star trek Party 4s or 7s

What about "bell-bottom trousers" and flippin great wedge soled shoes that you could hardly walk in? The higher the wedge the better. Does anyone remember Twizzle or Torchy the Battery Boy?

My parents, being of the WW2 generation eat everything. You name it they eat it. Manys a time I came in from school to find a pig's head on the kitchen table with one or both parents trying to gouge its eyes out because they wanted to make brawn. Oxtail soup, (yuk) tongue (even more yuk)...