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I'm well aware that this sounds like one of those boring dinner party questions! But I heard this asked the other day and it got me thinking. So what I'd like to know is, if you won the lottery, would you:

Tell anyone?

Give any of your hard-earned winnings to family and friends?

Give up work?

And just in case you're wondering:

Maybe

Yep, what the title of this posts asks! I'd like to know your thoughts on this. In the past, if I got on very well with a colleague, I definitely saw them as a friend and would have no issues in hanging out with them after work. You spend much of your day with your colleagues so it's easy to become very pally with them (if they're nice!)

But I know a lot of people prefer to keep their work and home lives separate so don't like to mix with their colleagues in non-professional situations. Furthermore once people leave their workplace and move on to somewhere new, they don't even keep in touch with their old work lot anymore.

What are your thoughts?

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People are steadily gravitating to more originality, with many wanting their engagement ring to be an extension of their style and personality.

So I came across this article about the new trend in engagement rings and wondered if everyone else agreed with it. My husband clearly knows me well because when he proposed, he proposed with a beautiful diamond ring which is what I would have gone for. Each to their own and everything but while I love coloured gemstones, engagement rings with coloured gemstones really aren't for me. When you think about it, your wedding and engagement rings are going to be worn every day so naturally you wouldn't want it to clash with what you're wearing. When I think about it, almost every lady I know who's married or engaged has a diamond ring, although my mum tells me that coloured gemstones were more common in her time.

What's your engagement ring like? And for those who are not engaged yet, would you dare to wear the new trend?

I've been thinking lately and I'm wondering why it is that whenever there is an issue involving a man and a woman and something goes wrong, it's always the woman who gets the blame? I'm not trying to come across as a strict feminist, and I understand that there are women out there who do wrong, but when we look at issues in the public eye for instance, it's always the woman that everyone has a go at.

For example Charles and Diana. He cheats on Diana with Camilla and Camilla gets called horseface and a whole lot of other names for years. Julia Roberts has an affair with a married man, and even though they've been married for two decades everyone still calls her a homewrecker. What about her husband? He's the one who wrecked his home. Will Smith hits Chris Rock and it's all Jada's fault. Jade Goody…

After being with my man for a very long time, I'm thrilled that he's finally going to put a ring on it! We're looking at next summer or even fall but it will be next year. I'm very excited about being a bride and it's fun planning our day and everything. But there's just one problem.

I was besties with someone I'd known since I was in my early twenties. We were very close. I was maid of honor when she got married. And I threw her a baby shower when she was expecting her twins. While we are still friends, I don't think we're as close as we used to be. I guess that's to be expected when the husband and kids come along. The thing is I don't feel that we're close enough now for me to ask her to be my matron for honor. I have other…

Next week I'll be having some of my in-laws over to stay for a few days. I wouldn't say that my in-laws and I are besties and are super close. I don't have the same bond with them that I do with my own family, but there aren't any major issues and we do get on.

The problem is that whenever they come over they behave very carelessly and I find myself seething. For example, they leave a mountain of washing up and never offer to help (it would be different if we had a dishwasher but we don't!) they eat us out of house and home, and never ask if anyone wants the last of anything, they just gobble it up! I've taken to packing up my Emma Bridgewater bits and pieces because they've broken some of my china in the past and not even apologized. And they really…

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Claudia Connell says that it is now common for people to use community groups and social media to ask for freebies and favours including lifts to places and appliances including spare fridges.

So I came across the above article today and it really got me thinking. I for one have never used these community sites that they're talking about where people see if they can get free items or favours or whatever it is they are in need of. But I have come across plenty of people from colleagues to neighbours to so-called friends who try their luck in seeing what they can get out of you. I really can't stand insincere behaviour so I avoid these kinds of people like the plague.

A lot of people talk about the good old days when there was community spirit and everyone looked out for each other and so forth. But these days we've become so cynical that despite wanting to feel part of a community and give each other a helping hand, we shy away from people the moment they ask for something…

I saw this article today and I wanted to know what everyone else thought about it.

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Posting under the handle @heartmindedmama on TikTok , single mother-of-two Alissa, from Illinois, explained that she doesn't allow her children to go to sleepovers as a 'family rule'.

When I was growing up, sleepovers weren't a common thing among friends but we were allowed to stay at family member's houses. I never really felt I was missing out or anything so it didn't really affect me. But it seems to be the done now and it seems to be the done thing out here. It's almost as though you're depriving your child if you don't let them stay over the night at a friend's house. I have two boys. The youngest is too young to be staying anywhere without me. But the oldest very rarely stayed at non-family members houses. Nor did he have friends over to stay. No particular reason that's just how it was.

I know one day my youngest will want to have sleepovers at a friend's house or…

Well I think everyone knows, wherever in the world that you are, that the last few days the news has been consumed by what is happening in Ukraine. It's absolutely devastating and my heart really does go out to all the people who have been affected by it. I'm not from Ukraine but my mom's family originate from Hungary so we're very close to the region, and I don't know if this is the reason why I feel it all the more strongly. What I've been seeing in the news is awful. I find it so hard to believe that we are more than a fifth of the way into a new century and still these barbaric acts continue.

What are everyone's thoughts on the crisis?