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Dear Annie: My wife and I have a close friend whom, in non-pandemic times, we invited over for dinner or cocktails at least once or twice a week. We've spent
broadway production of stephen sondheim's musical, a little night music. her manager tonight said... "glynis powered her way through life with intelligence, wit, and a love for performance, affecting millions of lives." the actress glynisjohns, who's died at the age of 100. we began tonight with flooding in parts of england. well, how do you protect against the worsening effects of climate change? 0n the river severn in worcester, one man's taken matters into his own hands. phil mackie has the story. they say an englishman's home is his castle, or should that be an island? 0n the floodplain in worcestershire, there's only one tiny bit of dry land left. this is how it would normally look. there was no chance there'd ever be flood defences for the isolated property where nick lupton lives with his wife annie and two cats, so they decided to build a wall. although the house has got some really good mitigations in place, like barriers on the doors and pumps
below the floor level, we finally decided to build ourselves a wall around the house. nick, who is a chartered mechanical engineer, decided, with the help of some experts, once builders had put in the foundations, he, annie and some friends did the labouring. it cost about the same as a small extension and required a remortgage to pay for it. it is between four and seven foot tall. a foot higher than the highest ever flood. they built it in the summer and it took four months and it was finished just in time for the first big flood of this season in october. a really important part of building the wall was to install these sumps, because the ground water is going to come up underneath them around the wall and these sumps will collect the ground water and pump it back outside the wall. it is impossible to reach the house safely as the water is too deep and the current is too fast but we were able to
Dear Annie: I've dated my boyfriend for more than 12 years. We got along fine when his grown kids were out of the picture, but now they're back living with
Dear Annie: When I was growing up, my father used to tell my brothers and sisters and me how important it was to set New Year's resolutions. He would write
Dear Annie: My 16-year-old daughter is relentless in begging me to have a sleepover with her boyfriend. She insists they are not sexually active and that she simply wants to
Dear Annie: My husband – who is loving, hardworking and helpful around the house – slights me from time to time. I believe he loves me, but these slights really
Dear Annie: I wanted to make a comment on your recent response to the article, "My husband wants to limit how much we spend on sick pets." Although I wholeheartedly