I have decided to pamper myself prior to the civil partnership on Saturday. So I bought a nose hair trimmer.......

I'm having an annoying problem with my Outlook express. BT say it's Yahoo's fault, and Yahoo are being no help whatsoever. Basically it keeps trying to send an email, when there's no email to send, and so I get an error message about every thirty seconds saying the message timed out waiting to be sent, and to contact my server or ISP. In the ( Read more... )

Genealogists dream of the chance of identifying an ancestor who was alive at the time of the Norman Conquest ( Read more... )

At the school where I work a complaint has been lodged of bad taste in a fundraising activity in the main staff room.

A teacher is trying to raise money to send to children in Darfur, Sudan with a "Name the Teddy Bear" competition...

Remind me next Monday that I have written a post that only I can see. I have some good news, but I've been sworn to secrecy until Monday.

Being referred for stress management I can understand, being given everything that happened at work recently. It has to have been the absolutely weirdest training experience I have ever been on though. "Why?" I hear you ask ( Read more... )

22nd January 1794: My 5x great aunt Elizabeth Hill was born in Aylesbury ( Read more... )

5.45am in the Big Brother House: Graham is in the living area, eating ice cream...My throat is fucking killing me. I had a cold all last week, and had trouble sleeping because of blocked nose/coughing/sweating/headaches, and now I have been left with a truly horrendous sore throat that is also keeping me awake at night. I went to bed at 11pm ( ( Read more... )

My third cousin twice removed:

• Enlists with the Royal Field Artillery on 8th January 1906
• Goes out to fight in WW1 on 16th August 1914, just 19 days after war is declared
• Is officially declared missing in action on 29th August 1914
• At some point in 1915 is found to be an internee at a Prisoner of War camp in Münster
• Is released from internment on 10th ( Read more... )

Our printer is kaput. Barring the ultimate question of whether we replace it or get it repaired, it doesn't do the job even when it's working so we're going to replace it. Any recommendations? We basically need a printer to print college assignments and family trees, and very little else...