It's not exactly household, but my C reg Vauxhall Nova had a great feature that I've never seen since. You could blow warmed air at your body & hands while blowing cool air at your face at the same time. Great for keeping you alert on long journeys. Also the head rest had a gap in the middle of it, ...

And I thought kimchi was bad!!!

Durian is truly revolting IMHO. It smells like a gas leak. Ugghh. Cuttlefish is something else that I can't recommend. It's like eating refrigerated cartilidge, as far as the texture goes. I've also suffered a particular Chinese variety of fermented tofu that smells & tastes of horse manure; the sme...

When I first decided to keep ex-batts, my plan was to keep them until they stopped laying, then let them "fully free range" & let nature take its course. Once I'd been given advice on the forum as to how the latter would mean their dying in terror in the jaws of a fox, & once we'd adopted our first ...

I had to wait years for my chainsaw; my husband wouldn't let me have one until I stopped having PMT, as it made me accident prone! I'm much happier using it around the garden since having proper training, though it should never be used above shoulder height (even if you climb with one- which I don't...

Hmm. Juggling priorities maybe. Juggling eggs? No... Juggling chainsaws?

I did go out in the snow yesterday equipped with a chainsaw, but I don't have an emoticon for that! Snow gave way to heavy rain, in which I had to take two consecutive chainsaw exams. I was soaked through to the undies by the time I got home!!! Euchh!

Getting away from politics and back to old music, I used to do stage lighting at a small theatre in Christchurch, Dorset. I lit concerts by Acker Bilk, Humphrey Littleton, Dave Brubeck (if my memory serves me correctly) and others. As an 18 - 19 year old, I really didn't appreciate just how good the...

Hi Tweetypie. I did spend some time working it all out for you & posting a reply, but the forum decided to ditch my message into nowhere & I didn't have the heart to do it all again. It's done the same to me this evening on a different thread. Guess I'll give up & just lurk in the forum for a while....

Thanks Lady A; your banana bread sounds good.

What kind of vanilla do you use?