Correct! I thought nobody was going to answer this one - your question, Gareth.

PC Goon - being defeated by That Pestiforous Boy at every turn must have made for a bleak existence and a nightmare at times!!

You're going to the opera, who would you take with you?

but isn't this the equivalent of Fred Blogs writing a new Famous Five book about Julian's first teenage romance. :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: I just can't imagine our "grown-up" and slightly (dare I say it?) cocky Julian going all soppy over a mere girl :lol: :lol: I wonder what George, Dick...

£170,000 to raise a child :shock: :shock: :shock: I think that you can do it for less than that if you don't have expensive holidays, lots of expensive toys etc, but it is still expensive. My mum is hoping that my sister will wait a while to have children, if she has them at all, because her financi...

In my opinion people ,families with many children aren't selfish - rather people opting against to get/parent children. I understand this to mean that you are saying that people who choose not to have children are being selfish. If this is the case then I must disagree. There are many valid and sen...

The moon always shines right outside my bedroom window, so I had a fantastic (and comfortable) view.

I was wrapped up snugly in my duvet watching the eclipse and pitying my next door neighbours. They stood in their garden for the whole time. Brrrrr!

It's amazing what you remember from books!

In 5 Go off to Camp if Anne could have had one of the farm's pups, what was she going to call it?

A packet of blancmange powder

Arrives dressed in a gym tunic bearing platefuls of cream cakes and some lemonade

Two cats - Phoebe and Calypso, both named after Greek nymphs but not very nymphlike I'm afraid! They're tortoiseshell coloured, but I don't have any photos on my computer for you, so this page will have to do to show the colouring.

http://www.messybeast.com/tricolours.htm

I'm a lady and ladies don't give away their age

whispers: 30

I watched the first one (Treasure Island??) and it wasn't too bad. Obviously they had chopped a lot of the story out for time reasons - at least I assume it was for time reasons but what they left in was fairly true to the original book. It made me laugh at the time, my sister was at home and watche...

Well I like to throw parties on my EUropeforum and that is tonight's theme :). You all have to turn up as an aristocrat who was beheaded and the party is held in the desert ;). Feel free to come! How exciting, lots of scope for people there! May I come as Anne Boleyn with my head tucked underneath ...

Oh, you're right, Moose. It was true post WWII too, only it was more noticeable after WWI. Also society changed so much after WWII; women began to have more social freedom etc which their post war 1 mothers didn't have. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't more men die in the first war and the 1918 f...

Anita, you could always try book tape. It's like sellotape, only made for mending books. I think Scotch sell their own version of it, but you can buy it from D & M Packaging as well.

Here's a link to the book tape page.

http://www.care4books.com/site/page.asp ... d=20&cid=3