• RE: September tomorrow..

    Yay Smiley

    I don't like August due to the school holidays (except when I was at school and I got a break from that horrendous place). Everywhere is too busy and too noisy and I usually hibernate quite a lot during August.

    I'm looking forward to getting out…

  • RE: Bad Diet

    I'm obsessed with chocolate and would live on it if I could, but obviously I can't so what I do is add chocolate to all the healthy stuff to make it more palatable. Like, I'll have a healthy bowl of porridge with peanut butter and banana - and melt some…

  • RE: Are Jaffa Cakes, Cakes or biscuits? This is the question of the century!

    I've never understood the appeal of Jaffa Cakes, although my son loves them. It is indeed an excellent question you have asked. One that plenty have people have pondered, as it seems nobody can quite decide what category they fall into. 

    As for tomatoes…

  • RE: Who/what do you feel the most kinship/connection with?

    The short answer is “Almost no one.” The longer answer:

    As Franz Kafka said, “I have hardly anything in common with myself”.

    • My wife. She is genuinely the only person who really “gets” me and is on the same wavelength, so I can…
  • Natural remedies

    Seen a lot of people on here talking about diet and natural remedies for things, eg foods that can help certain conditions and stuff like that, apple a day, that sort of thing

    Does anyone have any tips for me on that? My health, mentally and phsycally…

  • RE: Not up to working, tired of staying at home

    Sorry to hear your sick at the moment, I do hope you are able to get back to writing soon. 

    This is really helpful thank you, I might try that list thing. A lot of the things on your list seem the same as mine! Feeding the ducks is like my therapy I do…

  • RE: Useful ipad apps for students in mainstream education

    Hi, I’m a mature student at Uni, I did use SimpleMind Pro for a while, it’s about £10 I think for the full version. I found it quite useful for the first year, then I bought the Apple Pencil and use it with OneNote. I found it great for downloading and…

  • Dealing with a non-verbal 3 year old

    Our 3 year old grandson has been diagnosed as autistic. He has no speech at all, just whoops and chirrups. In the past he has been known to utter words occasionally such as "apple" or "bubbles", but we assume this was mimicry as the words were never used…

  • RE: 072 101 108 108 111 032 087 111 114 108 100... with Optional 032 or 046.

    I am using an iPad tablet which is fairly new so I cannot blame it,therefore the site is rubbish it it ability to do what it promises

    This could only be true if the software running on the iPad was perfect.

    No software is perfect. Apple recently…

  • RE: Asperger Syndrome and Careers ??

    The only problem with that theory, 'two, is that if they were all truely like that neither the police nor the armed forces, but particularly the police, could actually do their jobs.

    Their primary roles, after all, are to keep the peace, not to start…