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Honeymoon in Italy
Hi guys bit of advice would be welcome. We are getting married June 2016 and are researching our honeymoon. We are looking at 3 weeks in Italy. Our budget is £7500 including spending. Our plan fly from Birmingham to Milan, spend a few nights relaxing in Lake Como then heading to Milan, then Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples…
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Can you fall in love after just coming out of a long-term relationship?
Of course you can. However, a number of friends of mine have recently come out of long-term relationships, some with children, and within a few weeks they're professing love to another man. Are we more likely to find love after just ending a relationship? I don't think this guys are rebounds, as such.
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Live in Care versus Care Home
Following on from other threads on this matter I'm wondering if anyone chose to have a live in carer instead of arranging for a relative to go into a Home. My father has dementia and we are a big family. Needless to say there are differing opinions on what's best for him. My feeling is that his own home would always be the…
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Pregnancy and Neighbours Car Horn
Hi All, I'm not sure if this is the right place to be putting this, but I really would like some advice on this. We've recently moved house into quite a nice road, and also my partner has recently become pregnant. All good so far. However we have a problem in that our neighbour opposite leaves for work at between 6am -…
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Children and sponsorship - where do you draw the line?
There are children in my street that ask for sponsorship for school events approx once a month. I looked on school website these events are genuine. However there are no registered charities involved they just say it's for Africa or it's for the poor. I've tried to say no but they pull a sad face and tell me they will get…
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ex mother inlaw emptied daughters bank account
years ago when my daughter was young my ex husbands mother opened an account for my daughter to which my ex mother in law and other family members have paid monies into... my daughter is now 20 and a year off being able to access the account and her father has told her that her grandmother has emptied the account and spent…
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wedding anniversary ideas
Next April we will have been married 25 years and want to celebrate by having a short break of 3 or 4 days away. Due to a severely compromised immune system I cant risk flying so needs to be in UK. We have a budget of about £500, give or take a few pounds. Given that the weather could be dodgy in early April, does anyone…
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morphy richards easy blend anyone have one?
These are available for £17.50 at the moment. As someone who dreams of owning a nutri bullet but is never going to afford one, is this a viable alternative? or just a waste of money? Does anyone own one, or any of the other cheaper alternatives they could recommend?
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Question about booking registrars for civil ceremony
My partner and I are planning to get married next year and have chosen a venue in a different area to where we currently live. I am a little confused as to what steps we need to take with regard to registrars. Do we go and see the local registrar first to give notice then go and see the registrar for the area in which we…
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couples in a restaurant, eating in silence..
When we went out for dinner, sitting at a restaurant looking around there were many couples eating in silence, looking around everywhere but at each other, I made a comment to OH that it was awful to be in that situation and he says to me that he feels the same, he has nothing new to say to me:eek: that after years of talk…
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facebook users - can you please help
If you use facebook, could you please do me a favour and click on the magnifying glass icon (this is at the top right hand corner). When you click on it? It should bring up a list of people you have searched for. Can you let me know if the list is correct (ie, names of people only appear on there if you have actually…
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Alternative to clarks?
Can anyone recommend an alternative to clarks shoes for a child? I am fed up with them, twice now we have had to take a pair back. Once to be fair they did change them. they were school shoes that the stitching came away on the strap. The second time were trainers I purchased at the start of the holidays so about 5 weeks…
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WaS's bioethics discussion thread. Warning - penguins ahead!
WaS is a lovely poster who has started a bioethics course and is sharing some of the issues with a few of her friends on another thread. On the other thread we subscribe to the 'a friend is just a stranger you haven't met yet' ethic, for starters, so do feel free to join in! On the other thread, we use the word 'penguin'…
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Neighbours ignore us - thoughts?
Neighbours ignore us ...where did we go wrong? :( We moved out of the local city to a lovely village nearby 6 years ago , we are hardworking, we have 3 children who attend the local comprehensive school and the village school.. we worked hard for years to just afford to upsize to our 5 bed home on a small development as we…
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Get me to the church on time.
I don't know whether this girl has an account here on Mse but if she hasn't maybe she should sign up. I've just been listening to her getting interviewed on the radio and she said when she was planning her wedding she realised that so many times today people spend just so they can go one better than when friends or…
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What's the quickest your child's grown out of new shoes? Less than 6 weeks?
Hi everyone! How quickly have your kids grown out of their shoes? What age were they at the time? And how soon have you had to buy a new pair?
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Diabetic 9yr old with broken arm
Hi all, hope this is the right place to post. My dd broke her arm a couple of days ago. She has just stopped using an insulin pump after being on it for 4 years (long story, but kept getting infusion site infections which affected insulin absorption). She will have a cast for the next 6 weeks or so but when she starts back…
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Nursery Fees on Bank Holidays
Hi my daughter has her daughter in a local chain nursery on Just Mondays and Thursdays . She has to pay for every bank holiday Monday even though the place is shut. Is this right ? I know the staff need to be paid but this should be swallowed up by everyone all year in fees . People pay the same for a Wednesday and have 5…
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Respite advice for elderly father with dementia
My father in law is 84 and has mild dementia, is very frail and been diagnosed with stomach cancer they can't treat as he's too weak for the treatment. He's bed ridden and mother in law is struggling loads and hes sometimes verbally aggressive towards mum. He has a carer go in twice a day but the care he gets is very poor,…
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plum eris swing seat 37.25 tesco in store
http://www.tesco.com/direct/plum-eris-metal-swing-set/191-7977.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=191-7977 This is 37.25 in store seen at Tesco Beaumont leys and south wigston in Leicester n also purchased! No reduced labels just normal label I also got a Beaumont leys Plum rounders set £3 Mookie first basketball set £5 A pop up tent £3…
