Beware pop-under ads! Are you protected?

Recently MyLot seem to have introduced pop-under ads. These silently open a new window which you generally see only when you close your browser. Now, I have no objection to MyLot making money from...

Is this familiar to anyone?

I spent an hour this afternoon watching peoples heads and not being able to hear what was said. It's Christmas and I have school age grandchildren, can you guess where I was? Is this familiar to...

Should the British celebrate Thanksgiving?

Should people in Britain celebrate Thanksgiving? After all, when those Pilgrims left our shores to set up their own colony and celebrated the first Thanksgiving nearly 390 years ago, we were rid of a...

The Golden Compass and Religion

Apparently the Catholic Church didn't like The Golden Compass, but I'm wondering why? I can understand them not liking things like Life of Brian or The Da Vinci Code, because they actually mention...

Spells and Counter Spells

Firslty, I would like to say that this is not a discussion on whether spells work, etc. but let's say, for the sake of this discussion, that they do. What if, say, someone put a "curse" or "hex"...

Has anyone ever got a refund from Herbal Inns?

My partner bought a product a couple of weeks ago that didn't work, therefore was "not fit for purpose" which is one reason that your statutory rights allow a refund, no matter what the shops...

Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about.

Please tell me someone else remembers this advert for milk. My girls think I'm making it up. Do you remember it and when it was on telly?

Scam holiday win or could it have been real?

I just received a call, it was a foreign man, best guess I'd say Indian. He asked for someone, not me, told him he had the wrong number, then he said the number and asked if it was correct which it...

Face the Music

The Reverend Maxwell Craig died whilst rehearsing the "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's Messiah. Seems an apt piece of music for a clergyman to go to. Personally I'd like to go to the strains of...

Are the stairs out to get me?

For the past two or three weeks the third stair up seems to have gone out of its way to trip me up on the way upstairs. Do you think I've upset it in some way? A few weeks ago the door handles were...