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Thanks Feargal - I'm making my own right now.

Thanks guys for your advice about jam sugar. Unfortunately the fruit is already mixed up with the right amount of sugar - I just went to my cupboard for the pectin and found I didn't have enough

I'm making jam and have just one small sachet of Tate n Lyles powdered pectin left from last year. It's perfect for what I want but Waitrose have stopped selling it this year, Tesco don't stock it (only the bottled juice version with all sorts of other stuff in as well - which is not what I want), Netto's almost empty (closing down), and then I gave up trawling around. I need more of this stuff - anyone got any ideas where I could buy it? Would be very grateful - a jar of blackcurrant jam grateful in fact.

I want to teach my 8 year old daughter to snorkel. She can swim very well already. I've asked all the big swimming pools in Sheff but they don't allow masks and snorkels to be used in the pools. Anyone know a pool (here in Sheff or South Yorkshire/ Derbyshire) that would allow a kid (under my supervision) to practice snorkelling?

No need to respond to this - just found a place

I have my dad's old tenon saw which needs sharpening and probably re-setting. Drawn a blank on where to get this done - anyone know a place or person who could do this?

In Oct I have a work trip to Austin Texas. I need my laptop and want to connect to the internet - just the same as here - wireless or LAN connector - doesn't matter. Anyone know of any obvious issues I might meet that mean I'll have problems? I'm thinking mainly of settings on Windows Live Mail that might mean I can't access my email server here in UK as I've had probs sometimes in other countries. Cheers for any helpful advice.

they won't harm you if you just leave them and stay a 2 or 3 yards away when clearing your garden. They'll overwinter using the honey they're storing now and next May swarm two or three times and probably move on. They may even swarm in July though more unlikely as the month goes on. The swarms aren't harmful either though they look scary - well obviously don't go messing with the swarm. But when they swarm is the only time you can remove them without disrupting their home. contact http://www.sheffield-honey.co.uk and a bloke will come and take the swarm away.

There's no apostrophe in "forums". You alluded directly to your own mistake. Brilliant

We have a swarm, easy to access, in Sharrow area, just settled on a low tree in our garden. If you want them (you'll need a hive or nuc ready) pm me. Obviously they won't be there all day but the last lot hung around for a couple of hours before they found their own new home.

Gabby, This made me chuckle. Soooooo spot on.

Gabby, This made me chuckle .... soooooo spot on.

Ta Womerry2 - I'll try that.

My 7 year old daughter wants to learn to play an instrument. She's not really fussed about what she wants to learn so I reckon the quality of the teacher would be the most important factor to keep her interest going. Anyone know of an inspiring musical instrument teacher looking for another pupil? I'd be delighted to hear about them

ta Garlicmunch - the funeral is in Sussex but several folk have very kindly, and amazingly quicky, given me several ways of accessing it. Roger emailed m ethe track as an mps and it plays ok

ta Jazzmatazz. Roger has emailed me the track as an mp3 and windows media plays it OK. So I may have cracked it if I can burn it to a CD. Just as back up tho how exactly do you use RealPlayer to get a track of UTube?

ta Chris - I had a couple of responses and someone says they might email it to me - there are some nice folk out there. Chris

Maybe - I'll look into it - haven't used Spotify yet - ta

Funeral on Friday - need desperately to get hold of a track called 'Lord of the Dance' off the Dubliners 40 Years album to play at the service. HMV out of stock; got it off Itunes but can't transfer it onto a CD; anyone out there I can beg, borrow, or buy it from? ... would be so grateful.

Funeral on Friday - need desperately to get hold of a track called "Lord of the Dance" off the Dubliners 40 Years album to play at the service. HMV out of stock; got it off Itunes but can't transfer it onto a CD; anyone out there I can beg, borrow, or buy it from? would be so grateful.

Are many of you deluded? "Normal" flu kills a couple of thousand people in this country each year - mostly those a bit frail already, for whatever reason. Swine flu has killed about 80 - 90 so far this year since June, almost exclusively as far as I can glean from the literature, those who are a bit frail already. Why the alarm?

Friend of mine (female) is a qualified electrician. pm me if you want me to get her to give you a call

OK I know they raise tax revenue, but the billions and billions of pounds we read the gvt has borrowed to somehow revive our apparent dire economic situation - where does that all come from. Who or from where does the gvt get this money, which I understand we'll be paying back for generations to come? Answers as brief & simple as poss pls - obviously I'm not an economist.

It's sad enough for the "Sharrow community" to stick big signs up on the buildings along London Road proclaiming how proud they are of the area - a clear indication that it is very much a non-area area desperate to regain some of the cool it may have once had, but there's a glaring spelling mistake. "Sharrow loves it's trees" or maybe "Sharrow loves it's streets", can't remember precisely but it made me wince and quite embarrassed to live here still. F off then I hear you all cry ....

Thanks for all the comments. Seems like maybe they charged a bit over the odds but if they were using the genuine high quality oil then not soooo much. Also they arranged to pick my car and drop it off (I live other side of city) so that must be worth £20. I also have had some negative "attitude" from sales staff - but not all bad. Also get the impression that customers are just cows to milk to get their spreadsheets showing good profit margins. Ho humm ... you live and learn