So JU, I am calling on your knowledge to help me. Please! My Pop is 80 next month. My sisters and I would really like to get him a special gift to show him how loved and appreciated he is. Something that he will enjoy, and most importantly use. I have lost count of the crap gifts we have bought him over the years, that at the time we thought he would appreciate, only to find it stuffed in a cupboard somewhere several months later. This time I want to get him something that means something. That ...

Why do you hate me? These are the words that I were faced with from my eldest sister, after a rather traumatic few days where I just ended up losing my temper with her, and unfortunately I just let rip. Since I was 16 we haven't had a good relationship, over the years we have just distanced ourselves from each other. Well I have distanced myself from her. I never thought that she really noticed. We see each other about once a week when she is visiting my folks, and I kind of just put up with...

I was watching The Dragons Den the other day. If you haven't seen it, it's a pretty simple concept, people take business idea's to a panel of multi-millionaires and they decide whether they want to invest their hard earned cash into the ideas. For the most part they chew people up, and tell them how awful the idea is. If by a small chance they like the idea, they then proceed to rip them off, and get all they can out of it. I watched it, I have to say I love programmes like this, I am a bit of ...