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I was just wondering this....

I’ve been doing a line with a nice chap called Roger. When we are out for a spin on a Sunday in his Morris Minor, I can’t help but picture myself whizzing along with Pamela from the golf club instead, just us girls laughing away gaily. What can this mean?

how to i make puff pastry😂

I don’t want to sound ungrateful but DH wants to take me to that fancy “Wimpy Bar” in London.
WIBU to tell him I don’t like that weird American food.

Did you have a granddaughter who made it to the Sistine Chapel, @RosaMoline?

😂😂😂

I've only got ninepence halfpenny of my housekeeping to last for ten days. There are a few potatoes in the vegetable rack and I've got flour and a pot of jam.

Can any MNetters help me with suitable recipes to eke it out? I need to cook three meals a day for DH and myself, plus our three DC, who come home for lunch from school.

Ooh and I've just found an old tin of Ovaltine!

TIA.

My DD has passed the 11 plus and has been offered a place at the Grammar School. She really wants to go, but the uniform is really expensive and we will struggle to find the bus fare (its two busses to get there).

DS will be sitting the 11 plus next year, and to my mind it makes far better sense for us to spend our money on sending him to the Grammar, as he will eventually need to provide for his family. DD is really good at maths, so I think she would do really well working in a shop until she gets married.

Any advice?

(Real life example - this was my MIL and her brother. She went to the Grammar, and was the first in her family to go to university.)

My boy has the wonderful free spectacles they're giving out and he's over the moon he can see the blackboard at last.
It's a miracle he can see properly now but he's coming home crying everyday from school and wet and covered in bruises being called names. What can I do?

Now we've got an NHS, my neighbour seems to go to the doctor's every single week, and I think she's a CF and a hypochondriac.

How can I tell her nicely that she's wasting the doctor's time?

What does everyone think about the bodies found in Christie's old house?

Maybe Tim Evans was innocent, and he was wrongly hanged.

I can't believe bus fares have gone up to a halfpenny!

That's 100% increase.

Here's a great idea. Get hubby to cut out all the interior part of your ugly old Victorian panelled doors, just leaving a the outer edges to make a frame, and then he can fit a nice sheet of textured plastic to replace the wood. Lets the light in and looks much more modern. We went for orange.

[This had been done to all the doors in our Victorian terraced house when we bought it in the 80s - previous family had been there for over 30 years and bought it for a song when you could hardly give them away]

My mum said that she and her mum burned theirs on the fire, all rooms had one as there was no central heating.

Holidays: DH really wants to try Butlins in Filey this year but I would prefer to go to Scarborough instead. We have 2 DC, aged 5 and 8. How do I gently persuade him to xhange hus mind without being too obvious?

I'm sixteen and have got 11 O Levels. I want to carry on studying and then go to University, but my parents say it's not suitable for a woman and that I should now leave school and get a job at the local factory, working in a typing pool.

AIBU for wanting more out of life, than just marriage and babies?

I'm 20 and from quite a lowly background but I'm luckily very intelligent and work extremely hard. I was the first in my family to go to grammar school and I'm now doing very well at a highly regarded university.
My lovely mum has recently died and it's a terrible time. All my relatives have been going on and on at me and giving me a really hard time because they think as a daughter I should leave university permanently and go back home to look after my father, who is 45 and fit and healthy.
I don't want to do that because I love university, I worked so hard to get here and I really want to work and have a career. My dad says he can look after himself.
AIBU to stay at university?

( True story, she did stay at university despite huge pressure not to, got a First and worked in scientific research until retirement. She also married and had a family.)

My DH has said he wants us to try something called "oral sex". But I'm afraid I'm so frightfully unimaginative I wouldn't know what to say. Suggestions please!

I’ve recently given birth to my 12th DC. I’m absolutely exhausted and determined that this will be my last. Unfortunately DH still insists upon conjugal relations. How can I make sure I don’t fall pregnant again? I’ve already tried offering up prayers, a goat’s bladder sheath, and a douche of duck fat and carbolic acid. None have worked. Please help!

Ask your husband to make a wooden box with a lid.

AIBU to think Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend should just get married abroad and tell the Queen to suck it up?

(Very late 50s) I'm currently living in a condemned slum and have been offered a 3 bed semi detached in Swindon as part of London overspill but im frightened i wont know anyond or do I hang on for one of those modern high rises with indoor bathrooms and kitchens. They look so aspirational.

Has anyone got one of these new fangled refrigerators? I think it would be really useful to have one, but my MIL says that a larder with a stone shelf is good enough for her, so it should be good enough for me.
One of the reasons I want a refrigerator, is that walking to the shops almost daily takes up so much of my time. Am I being unreasonable to disagree with my MIL?

My 15yo DD was in trouble, so I took her to the local woman, but it's been six hours and DD is bleeding much, much more than I did when I had it done.
She's also in severe pain.

I can't call the doctor, can I? I'd be too ashamed.

Does anyone know how much blood you can lose and still be all right?

I haven't told her dad, either. He'd beat us both up if he found out.

I must admit I'd be confused too. Did he mean 'oral' or 'aural'?

It needs clarifying I think, though it does sound as though it could be quite romantic. But he needs to be clear about who would be doing the talking and who would be doing the listening.

I'd go with it, and maybe suggest taking it in turns?

AIBU to think that rations should have ended by now?