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Runner beans need a lot of room and tend to overshadow anything close. Why not have a wigwam or two at the back of flower beds as a feature, and to save space in your raised veg bed?

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... or they clear the windows (just) but leave snow all over their lights/indicator clusters

The county boundary crosses the road near the entrance. The course is in East Sussex but the clubhouse is, I believe, in Kent .....

If you receive an email or Whattsapp message with the title 'Ding Dong' don't answer it - it's the Jehovah's Witnesses working from home ...

I would suggest that he pops into the local Citizens Advice. There he will receive initial information, help and advice, especially on dealing with any priority debts in the first instance, and can be referred to a debt specialist. CA can contact his creditors with his authorisation and arrange...

Hedgehog wheels are banned at our course, which is on Wealden clay and so quite heavy and wet in winter. The reasoning is that hedgehog wheels are meant to reduce the area of wheel in contact with the ground, as they are supposed to rest on the tips and not dig in; once the ground is soft and...

Our club won't allow hedgehog wheels, as the ground is pretty heavy and soft in winter. If the hedgehog wheels did what they were intended to do , and just took the trolley weight on the tips of the 'spikes', then there wouldn't be any damage. When it's soft they sink in and churn a trail of...

Bought a Sun Mountain H2NO Lite about 3 years ago. The first waterproof zip broke in normal use after 18 months, and SM weren't interested when I contacted them. Second zip now gone. I won't be buying another …..

Attendance allowance will be a given from what you describe - not means-tested and can be spent anyway the recipient wants . Local social services should have been notified when she went home, but you can always request an urgent needs assessment via her GP to push things along. It's usually...

If anyone over 65 years old would like to contribute to a research programme into prevention/treatment of Alzheimer's disease, a company called Re:Cognition Health is running a 5-8 year programme to assess a possible treatment. It runs from several centres in the UK, and starts with a...

Correct! Highway code rule 114 and Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations no 27 (law).

Mischievous is not pronounced 'mischeevious'. Even the BBC are now following the American mispronunciation of French words and names, with the emphasis on the wrong syllable - eg café, Macron, debris - I think the French know better ...

Keep it simple and avoid some of the complicated recipes: To every standard bottle of gin add 1 lb of sloes and 6 ounces of sugar. Sugar is to personal taste really, but 8 ounces makes a sloe gin that can taste too sweet, and 4 ounces can be a little on the dry side. It helps to prick the sloes...

Keith Lemon is another so-called comedian who confuses genuine humour with vulgarity and smut as he doesn't have the talent to be funny without resorting to a low level. The idiot who dresses up as Mrs Brown is another example.