The revenue generated from the adverts on the site is a critical part of our funding - and it's because of these ads that I can offer the site for free.
But using the site for free AND blocking the ads doesn't feel like a great thing to do, which is why this box is so large and inconvenient.
Some sites will completely block your access, but I'm not doing that - I'm appealing to your good nature instead.
Did you know that you can allow ads for specific sites, whilst still blocking them on others?
You can have my cetirizine and loratidine and beclamethasone and fluticasone if you like, after a terrible February and half of March my hay fever has buggered off. Supermarket own brand drugs are your friend, lots cheaper than the branded ones.
I recall having to chair a particulalry nasty disciplinary hearing a few years ago, we had reached a real tense point in the proceedings when motions were running quite high. I was just about to call a break when an ice cream van pulled up outside playing the Batman theme tune at full blast.
I don't think the ice cream van comes onto our estate any more. Last one I recall was sometime a few years ago when it was pouring down so I guess he couldn't drum up any trade in his usual haunts! (I was BBQing, hence the memory!)
Not enough children / grandchildren most of the time to support it normally, I suspect.
Think the houses will start shrinking to bungalows soon?
Ours plays the tune that got turned into "Mcdonalds Mcdonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut" ( or is that just a scout thing? ) - I know that it's a proper song originally, but can't remember what it's called
When I was a child there was an ice cream van round our way that played what I now know to be Lili Marlene but which at the time I thought was an alternative tune for Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree.
Me: Hi, I've received a letter asking me to come in for repeat blood tests and a follow up with the GP in two weeks. Them: You can go to the hospital clinic for blood tests. Me: I know. I was there for two hours Friday before last. Anyway, the letter says I need to see the GP. I have an appointment on the 26th which is a lot more than two weeks, and I must change it anyway as I have to take my daughter to Cardiff that day. Them: I can book you in for the 17th May. Me: Oh yeah, that's lovely thanks. The letter says two weeks but six and a half weeks will be fine.
People trying to get on the (crowded) tram before people have got off first.
People on the tram tutting at the young man who was loudly waving and saying hello to anyone who glanced in his direction.
Every pedestrian who tried to barge in front of me despite me walking approximately twice as fast as them (just because I'm playing a game on my phone doesn't mean I'm not paying attention...)
My completely unmanageable workload.
Whatever it is in my eye that is causing this discomfort and making me wink at nothing.
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