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I have Meniere's disease, which is an inbalance of the middle ear, and I can feel travel sick lying down in bed. It's horrible, I know, and you have my sympathy, Akimbo. Here are my tried and trusty solutions: Ginger is fantastic. You can take it in form you like - fresh, and grated into stir...

On top of the excellent advice you've had here, could you turn the situation around by doing something positive? The next time you have a bright idea, do a great piece of work, or spot a way to save money, for example, take it straight to the MD. It shows that you have initiative and that you...

Yep, you'll need a length of ordinary hosepipe leading from the outside tap to connect to the silver nozzle thingy. You might like to take the measurements, photograph the nozzle on your phone and ask at a garden centre or hardware store?? Hosepipes come in standard widths so it should be easy...

Just check - and double check - it's not a gas pipe or electrical cable before you do anything else!! Otherwise, it may be an irrigation pipe - in which case, you've struck lucky. These were very popular a few years ago before we spent our summers being flooded out. They are lengths of...

Just catching up with this thread. Wooh - the chance to plant up a sunny trough is wonderful! If the trough's big enough, then I'd go for hebes, too. If space is an issue, or you want something lower growing, then you might like to have a go at creating a sort of Mini-Med in a trough? There...

Have you tried the new Max Factor Eye Brightening Tonal mascara in Sapphire Black? It's marketed as being for people with blue eyes. It's a dark navy, and a great mascara. I have thin, fair lashes, and it's about the only mascara I've found that gives long, thick lashes in a second. Oh, and...

That's such good news, Yaz. Huge hugs to you and your mum and let's hope she makes the fastest possible recovery.

I really like Flower Power, I hope they haven't changed the formulation. What's your garden soil like, Autumn? It can make a big difference to how well a garden fertiliser works. [Damn - the line breaks won't work on this forum!! Sorry for the rubbish layout, here.] As a rule, if you're...

Yep, I agree with Beakerange - go for it! Some of us have had pretty incredible ranges to try, well beyond anything we'd normally consider shelling out for, and when you're paying £30 for £200+ worth of skincare and make up, it's a bargain. You usually get 10 items for your £30, so paying £3...

Blimey, Autumn, you do have an infestation! I've more or less given up on growing lilies, to be honest. Between lily beetles and discovering that the pollen is poisonous to cats, I think there are probably other things more suited to the time and space I've devoted to them. It's a touch sad...

Completely agree, BL, I've forgotten the others already. I thought tonight's programme was a bit lack-lustre all round, really, as if they pulled out the stops for the first episode of the series and we'll be stuck watching mediocre acts for weeks, now. Hope I'm wrong - BGT is my guilty secret...

Unfortunately, there isn't a commercially available pesticide which will see off lily beetles, so you have to be eagle eyed for those bright red beetles, and squash 'em. When you spot the beetles, you have to be quick at catching them, too, because they drop, upside down, on to the soil and...

I think Women's Aid, Shelter etc is a great idea. Just as an alternative, my mum in law was in hospital on a ward for Alzheimer's patients, many of them very elderly. There was a notice up asking visitors for donations of toiletries and tights for the ladies, as many of them had no family...

It just seems a weird concept to promote any product that way. You can't really imagine McDonalds popping up to tell everyone they're actually tucking into flame-grilled horse meat, can you?

There's another way of looking at it, ppc, in that if the Philpotts appeal against their sentences, they can try to claim that the judge was swayed by adverse media publicity, that the sentence was a knee jerk reaction, etc, etc. If the judge can show that she's taken time to carefully consider...