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@Tomas Black taxis were known to 'turn on a sixpence'. See this.....tells you ALL about it. Sorry it..
@ChrisN ok gotcha. But it wasn't me who used it, I didn't know this expression at all till yesterday..
@Tomas If you said it in that context, you would be understood OK even though it wouldn't be the bes..
OK fully clear now. BTW, I didn't know those idioms either!
@CharlotteB or'he did a complete u turn', now we are thinking it seems there are many ways of expr..
@Tomas maybe you could say he done or tends to do a full 180! (Meaning degrees turn) Which can mean..
@Tomas It would sound a bit strange, would usually say 'he can change like the wind' or 'at the drop..
@Blodwen thank you as well, so it does seem mean only that. Ok, but if I said something like this: "..
@CharlotteB ok thank you. Google seems to think the same, but I did hear that expression used in psy..
Someone with nothing better to do, at Leeds Council, has realised it doesn't come from Yorkshire. h..
@ShirleyM it happens too easily, and if we all thought about it we could have so many different thre..
Sorry Charlotte, it was indeed Michael's thread, my mistake. I don't think it's right to suddenly ch..
Why has Joss's thread been highjacked, I thought it was about Yorkshire tea!
@Selsey I know the year as I hadn't long been in the house. And the dog was still alive as she got r..
I once had a fox who learnt to tip my bottles over and roll them down the drive drinking the milk as..
@Boots well same as Magpies put hard food in water to soften. Seen Blackbirds do it too.
We hope you are all well and having a great day. We would like to take a moment to remind our comm..
@RayPro Ah, okay. Thanks Must be hard to know the difference between a 'genuine' complaint and a non..
@Blodwen The comment appertained to Irish jokes! By "certain people" I mean the members of scooplo..
@RayPro 'Certain people' Could you please explain? Do you mean people who oppose racism? Sounds ra..
@Diana3 Of course it's always men. Never in any doubt is it? But I wonder how you would react if a m..
@Diana3 Agree - hopefully sexism (and homophobism) will be the next to be tackled by SL. Because aga..
@Blodwen I was naturally blonde and was infuriated by men (it was always men) making jokes about dum..
It's amazing how these people keep criticising about writing things to provoke.... and yet in the ne..
@Boots I didn't say that's what you said, Boots. How did you understand that? I was giving various e..
Over a period of many, many thousands of years, countless people believe they have seen a ghost or a..
hahaha brilliant, looks like Lily savage. they would have a shock when abducting her, for the examin..
@UncleAlbert Sorry can't oblige they were taken on glass quarter plates and have long gone, and even..
@RonT Hahaha...The Leprechaun photo seems very comical. If you manage come across it at some point I..
@UncleAlbert Yes I had realized that, my comment was an aside. One can have a great deal of fun wit..
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/rochdale-grooming-gang-members-fight-152919483.html Two men who were part..
@Sandie08 Yes, he really let them have it. I admired him standing up on his own against the might o..
Jeremy would let everyone stay, no questions asked, Just watching on TV "Politics England" about E..
@AlanF Remind me to buy you a violin.
@Ange Spot on Sheila, just think what a disaster Corbyn would have been, he would have probably impo..
@KristaLonsdale I don't think many would disagree the current system of punishment "fits the crime"..
@UncleAlbert If the case is proved then I`m with you`all,sentences should be stiff and they should n..
@MrSokPupitt got 4 stars, I like political things. anyway night night everyone.
Today (2 July), Slough Borough Council has announced it will be pausing non-essential spending, in r..
"... months of action by the council to gain a full understanding of... the financial challenges..."..
Not at the moment, We will publish changes as we hear of them.
@SloughBC Ok, thanks. Any idea when you will have this info?
@SloughBC Does this mean that any planned building works e.g. the redevelopment of a former garage s..
Worrying, but not altogether surprising given the past 18 months, and the past ten years of the gove..
Heatwave in Canada and USA. On top they also have outage in electricity. People dying. Must be a ter..
@KristaLonsdale my relative in Calgary says they've had temperatures 35-40 constantly. It doesn't co..
@KristaLonsdale I've heard back from Vancouver. Not a lot to report except they've never known it so..
@UncleAlbert Your comment --the choice of switching an appliance off and use it at a later time----..
I`m lost!! 
@Boots I think you're right? When you sign a new contract with any energy company they have to give..
@Boots No they can't, for the period of the contract. As @UncleAlbert said all a smart metre dose is..
We are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted in Waterlooville yesterday evening (Tuesd..
1 It grows up, as a bug in a P-O-W camp? (10) - Stalagmite (Audrey F) 2 Sounds good to hear but not..
@Selsey I think you have to be an aficionado of cryptic crosswords to work these out, and even Coun..
@Audreyf Definitely well done - I couldn't even work out the answers after you'd answered them!
@Boots -Thank you - glad you joined in. It was quite lonely for a while as it's more fun when ther..
Thank you everyone. I'll put up a new cryptic puzzle next week.
@CliveF Halls is correct. (Shall - it was there all the time).
Pity... thought Can do to Condo!!!
... A snail decided to slither down my patio door (it had obviously decided to slither up previously..
@DerekR I agree I was amazed other day in my garden. Do they appear more at a certain time of the ye..
@Sandie08 if you could see the number of ants in my garden, you wouldn't worry about them becoming e..
Sorry that was within a decade, due to intensive agriculture, and showing 8 times more decline than..
@Sandie08 Did they give a reason? I think there is plenty of food for them, they always leave bite..
I just read that in about 50 years we may not have any insects at all, which of course are badly nee..
@LizS3 thank you for that. I think he's/she's safe for now as it has moved on from where it was. Pro..
@DerekR, I think the orange larva is a ladybird larva that is threatening our native ladybirds. Dil..
@Sandie08 well, I have asked him to keep them away from my cucumbers, but so far there has been no r..
My grandmother (1886 - 1985) would go round her garden with a bucket of saltwater, to get rid of all..
This new Dell laptop came without the basic software that I need to create and work with Word or Exc..
@DianaW - I've sent you a PM. For everyone else, do start with the video tutorials on the FFS site..
@DianaW - Hmmm, I'll have to think about that. Might be better to continue via PM. Once it's setup i..
@PeterJ I've downloaded FFS to this new laptop but now I need an idiot's guide to using it. Everythi..
@JohnH6 Thanks, John. You're right, of course - but I have very little experience of OneDrive and i..
@DianaW If that worries you, then you can use OneDrive's Personal Vault: https://bit.ly/3y9SvuX Don'..
@DianaW - exactly, and I should think your Win7 PC will run into problems trying other things by Mic..
@JohnH6 But doesn't OneDrive use the cloud? I've never stored my personal files online and that real..
@PeterJ Thanks for explaining this. I can see that there might be a problem with two equivalent devi..
Transferring of files from one PC to another is now an easy matter with the advent of Microsoft's On..
@DianaW