While walking down a lane in the sunset yesterday I noticed a 'gossamer stream' waving above a small tree/bush, barely 10 feet high, one of thirty or more such small trees alongside the road. It...
I've just bought a bottle of Radox 'Moisture Soak' bath oil which says it is 'proven to relax aching muscles and unwind tired minds'. How do they know this? Where will I find the proof?
Why do theatre 'biogs' of ac-tors never tell you his/her age? I can understan an ac-tor getting peeved at every mention of his age in a 50-word tabloid story (witness the theatrical reviews this week...
I hear regularly of 'Amen Corner' . I first heard of it as a pop group in the 1960s, and I've since found it's a neighbourhood of Tooting. Brewer's Dictionary says it's the corner of Paternoster Row...
Why are 'health food' shops so called? It seems to me that most of them are full of dried foods, packets, cans, and bottles of vitamin supplements and tablets. In fact, they tend to look more like...
Is there any truth to the rumour I've long heard that cat food and dog food actually has to be taste-tested by humans before it can be put on the market?
I hears that the "O.K." sub for "alright" originated from an illiterate crate marker's abbreviation for "orl korrect". Or is this as spurious as the likes of "Gringo the rushes, oh!"?
