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This disfigured face is in an old Formica worktop in our ancient kitchen, possibly a previous resident of the house, trapped in there. For some reason, my eyes always seem drawn to it when I go in there to make a cup of tea. Yes, and it's probably upside down as well.

When I was a kid, I used to steal teaspoons from places such as Schooner Inns, Berni Inns and Little Chef restaurants. I seem to remember nicking one from a pub up north with 'Whitegate Taverns' embossed into it. I've no idea where they went. All I've got now are a couple of Rolex teaspoons, but...

I'm a member of the Mr Jolly Lives Next Door facebook group. Every time one of these incidents happens, someone says, "Not Fatty's Game !" and makes reference to someone falling out of an 18th floor window.

My first impression is that she was sent there to assassinate someone, but was 'seen coming,' or betrayed, and then taken out by operatives of a security service. The article says she disappeared for between 19 and 24 hours, which raises the possibility that she may have achieved whatever she...

On the subject of the iffy stamps, I've just seen a listing on ebay that's got to be dodgy. Too good to be true etc. 50 1st class large letter stamps for £13.22. It's being listed by a zero feedback seller in Hong Kong. They're £1.45 in the Post Office. Listing says, Fifty 1st Class 'Large...

Did any of you visit the Isle of Wight Waxworks, formerly known as Osborn Smiths Wax Museum, in Brading, Isle of Wight ? Sadly it closed down in 2010. I remember visiting when I was about 6 years old on a family holiday. It expanded over the years and eventually visitor numbers failed to cover...

I was driving through France in 1988 on the way back to the St Malo ferry. The signposting near Rennes was quite poor and I ended up lost in a housing estate. I remember the sense of panic when I realized I didn't have a clue how to get back to the main road. I didn't have any local maps, just...

Q – If she was abducted, how did the perpetrator or perpetrators know the camera and microphone on Nicola’s phone weren’t active and being monitored and / or recorded elsewhere ? I don’t recall seeing this question being asked anywhere else.

I've seen the phrase 'conspiracy theory' used in relation to this tragedy, but I suspect that if there was a cover up, it's more likely to be as a result of a mindset than a conspiracy. Conspiracies need a lot of planning, and key people would need to have been told to act in a certain way...

In Transactional Analysis they call it rubber banding. The theory is that each memory is attached to an elastic band, and something similar or familiar in the present pulls on the elastic band thus triggering recall. I don't very often remember my dreams, and the ones I do remember are ones I...

I've just found it on the ICO website. I had to complain to them about spam texts last week and still had the link...

It's scary how easy it is to put surveillance devices into cars and other places these days. They use the phrase sim cards, but it's basically any device fitted with a sim card. These devices have the architecture of a mobile phone. So for example if you wanted to listen to someone in a car, all...

Really sorry to hear about this. Obviously please do as you see fit with this, and I could be mistaken, but as far as I'm aware, GDPR only applies to living identifiable individuals.

Savile, [politician]?

I think some of most ridiculous accidents are those involving people trying to ride a skateboard down stairs or a handrail. Virtually always ends in tears. If I had a tenner for every time I've said t*** whilst watching videos like this. I'd be able to afford a Jag. I had one go on a skateboard...

Wasn't there a story about someone who managed to live in a cinema ? I can't remember where I heard this, but the story had it that he'd even managed to smuggle a mattress in there.

Not sure why, but I've sensed a strange energy around the place a few times when I've been there over the years. The Boulevard cafe is good though.

Also https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?channel=2&page=100

There's a reference to this kind of thing in Derek and Clive, where Peter Cook tells Dudley Moore that he's sent a letter addressed as follows. "C*nt. London."

I'd stay. Because it would be cheaper than paying for central heating.

When did they dig him up ?

Can't see the resemblance myself. Looks like another excuse for depravity. Unlike other threads, which aren't. Never seen anything like it. Going to visit another thread now. Evenin' all !

I can't be bothered to read 34 pages to check if someone has already said this. But anyway, if you look on the CartoMetro map of the railways under London, it does look possible that the VIctoria Line passes under, or very close to Buckingham Palace. Zoom in on the map between Green Park and...

Have you ever had a Clipper lighter that's gone missing ? Has it ever come back ? Have you wondered where it went, or why ? I became aware of the existence of the Clipper zone in the very early 1990s when I was a smoker. Fellow smokers alerted me to the fact that Clipper lighters have a...

Do you ever question your own sanity ? Inspired by the 'False Memories' thread, I decided to post this here in case anyone else can confirm whether this really happened or not. In 1983 a mate of mine lived in spitting distance of Manchester Airport. Back in the day before the terror threat put...

I was on a family holiday on the Isle of Wight in 1976 or whenever it was, and the ladybirds were falling out of the sky, dead. I remember going up Union Street in Ryde, which is quite steep, and seeing people sweeping them away from shop doorways and steps leading up to them. Strange times...

When I had a caravan many years ago, I used an old Beauty Spots of Kent souvenir tea towel as a curtain for the door window. Being at the kitchen end of the caravan, it inevitably got used as a tea towel, even though it was attached to the inside of the wooden door with drawing pins. It was...

I don't know if I've already mentioned this one. It's only vaguely interesting, if at all. Once day I receieved an insurance quote through the post. The odd thing was, it was nowhere near my renewal date. It was very cheap as well, about £200 less than I was paying at the time. I was puzzled...

I had a Volvo V70 once which had an engine that would stop all by itself. I suspect this was due to it being crap, and old, rather than anything supernatural. The horn used to sound when the left hand indicator was on, when turning left, but this was probably the 'clock spring' wire connecting...

I used to be a moderator on the old Lockergnome computer forum back in the day, and had no problems accessing the site through normal means when it was using Invision Power Board forum software. Then it changed to phpBB and I kept getting IP banned from it. I routinely had to email the tech...

Can't say I'm convinced about the non ghostly explanations either. Having something pleasurable happen as a teenager and wanting it to happen again could be said to be important from a nostalgia perspective, but in isolation, it hardly makes for a valid argument about something as important as...

I suppose it depends on which way you look at it, or in what context. My take on it is this. I’d better set the scene. I don’t believe in ghosts, per se, and by that I mean when people see them, it’s not actually a ghost of a once living person, it’s a demon appearing in physical form, trying...

Were you the bloke with a similar name to one of the members of Duran Duran who got really annoyed when I cold called him ( used NME to make my cold call lists), or the one with the brilliant reggae musical answering machine message that several of us in the office kept ringing up to listen to ?

For a short while in the early 90s I worked in Russell Square House, opposite the park with the cafe in it. (working for Trevor Deaves' hard sell insurance sales company, MI Group.) I'd often arrive early so I could get a decent coffee and some proper toast in there before venturing across the...

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I have looked round Highgate on Streetview before, but I'll have another go, because there definitely are similarities. It's strange though, I was sure it was within a reasonable distance of Hampstead tube, but I've looked up and down all the roads which...

Myself and a colleague went to collect a car we'd bought. On the way back to his workshop, we went along Stakes Road, heading for Purbrook, when we noticed in huge letters across both sides of the road, the words, "F*CK THE PIGS" The next day, I rang a friend who lived nearby, but he said the...

I was just reading the Odd Bit of Road thread and it reminded me of something which may or may not have a rational explaination. Many years ago, back in about 1984, I went to London to meet up with an old friend. Neither of us are from London, but he had a brother who was working up there, so...

I've had two lots round here recently. First time it was two men, in their 60s, at 9.10am on a saturday. I looked out of the door window first and they were wearing black clothes, similar to what old time traffic wardens used to wear in the 1970s. I'd been drinking the night before, and only...

Coffee gives me migraines. So does MSG. And diesel smoke.

I was doing some legal research a couple of years ago, and one website I looked at seemed quite rational until about two thirds of the way down the page, then it all seemed to go out of the window, and it started going on about the magna carta still being legally binding, and that as a result of...

Not coincidence as such, but you've reminded me of something clock related, from back in the mists of time, around 1985 when I was a student, working part time in a Gateway supermarket. At some point, I noticed that if you took a tea break at half past the hour instead of on the hour, the time...

Have airports in the UK ever been closed before due to drone sightings in the vicinity ?

I can't think of a word play on this, although if I connifer with a few other forum members then I might think of one.

Has this one been done yet ?

That's true. I've been banned from Wikipedia for editing Andrew Lloyd Webber's page with factual information about his vote supporting the government on tax credits. My edit was removed, with a message that if I could provide links to news stories about it, then it would be allowed. So I did...

Yes, but only after taking acid.

Yeah, and you'd be right. It's not funny at all. I don't know what they're all on about.

Jim Davidson once said that if he had three things, he'd be in a circus. I'll get me coat etc.

In the UK, it's a popular misconception that if you crash into the back of another car, it's automatically your fault. This is not always the case. There are many situations where the opposite is actually true, such as if a car pulls out of a side road in front of you, and you can't stop in...

I think the solicitor who represents someone I've recently taken to court is a time traveller. He sent me a letter which arrived a couple of days before Christmas, but it's dated the 3rd January 2018. I'm going to phone him tomorrow and ask if he knows the winning lottery numbers.