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May I ask for some information from the knowledgeable experts here, please? My daughter and her husband are planning to buy a house and we are in the fortunate position to help them do that. We can either give them a straight gift, or a much larger interest free loan. We can not lend them...

I am looking for flooring for my kitchen the house is old, and I would like to tile the floor in a diagonal checkerboard pattern using red and black quarry tiles (about 6" or 15cm square). 023 tiles used to stock these sort of tiles but they had no interest in ordering them in in the 6"...

I entered the brave new world of the Cork H&M today. All gleaming glass, shiny new. I had a little mooch around prices as I quite liked their kiddies' clothes. A lovely little purple cardigan was €12.95. A little expensive but not too bad, until I saw that the sterling price was £7.99...

It is not often I have the need to Let Off Steam. However, I have lost count of posts from otherwise (I assume) reasonably literate people using 'loose' instead of 'lose'. And I am afraid I have to struggle to take whatever is written seriously at that point. Dictionary definition for...

Would anyone know if there are any allotments for rent in Cork, near Cork City? I have not been able to find anything on the subject so far. cheers, Diziet

For various reasons I would like to go away for a week or 10 days over Christmas this year (family of 4). If you have gone somewhere nice over Christmas that you would recommend, I would appreciate letting me know. We would prefer somewhere outside Ireland and are not too keen on the whole White...

The BBC iPlayer has the film, with commentary by Terry Jones, but it is only available in the UK, so check out the pictures here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml

Hi all, I have a small amount of carpentry work that needs to be done on my kitchen. If I employ a carpenter what is a ballpark daily rate I should have in mind? cheers, Diziet