Can be absolutely brilliant at times. I love today's offering in the DT - most apropos....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
Any favourites of yours, Matt or others? Examples?...
Jogger Jayne pointed out earlier that today holds this honour, as well as the WW1 Armistice/Remembrance. So.......... Two men are in a doctor's office. Each of them are to get a vasectomy. The nurse...
There's report on Spotlight (BBC S-West) that vandals have burnt poppy wreathes on the memorial in Crediton. Unbelievable. Roasting of them good enough or other tortures that you can come up with?...
For the artists and crafts folks in here, Falmouth Uni, one of our leading Arts schools is thinking of sacrificing their Contemporary Crafts Degree in favour of Gaming and Business. This is an...
It is seriously foul here, rain teeming down, the wind getting up and the light feeling like it's 4.30 already (it's 3pm). A horrendous evening in prospect. I was going to go out to complete some...
BBC News, reports that the Americans have sucessfully bombed a convoy of 10 vehicles with the ISIS (ISIL) leadership in....reports that Abu Bakr has been at least badly injured if not killed. Will...
Or have they just been seriously torpedoed by a traditionally left of centre research group? Fuel for the Tories, UKIP and all the rest...... Apparently Labour immigration from outside the EEA has...
And what are you having for supper? The International à la carte for the DTC household is, yes, Roasted knickers and tea towels served with a sock soup. I have just opened the Aga to slide in the...
This has prompted my grey cells as to a good yarn. Red Adair, he of oil fighting fame with Boots and Coots, and made a fortune out of putting out all the Kuwaiti fires post Saddam's invasion by...
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/22/sweden-vows-to-coax-alleged-russian-submarine-to-come-to-the-surface-with-armed-force-if-neccessary/ This situation is potentially quite serious if the Swedes...
It must be Saturday night. I went into Truro to pick up some takeaway, F&C and Chinese noodles from two places. 18.55 and there on the main road in, near the crematorium, was a woman walking on the...
The DT had a good book review for ' Mecca, the Sacred City' by Ziauddin Sardar, the book looking at the city from many perspectives, it's history, architecture (how this is being destroyed in favour...
1000 pairs of them!!! Even my mother can't top that and her old man was in the business of shoe shops. Thoughts? Anyone get near this number? Men included so we aren't deemed as being sexist.......
Could be News but also Pets. Boxie, I see this is up the road from you .....Marmie's a cute cat, not unlike your terror if I remember right. What was he up to all those months away?...
You may have seen that there was an oft expressed niggle about Best Answers in Crosswords this morning and then the lack of courtesy in acknowledgement or thanks from the person who raised the...
Collective nouns. Let's see your unusual ones. Also, let's see what you can come up with for ABers..... The rich reward of a 'Best Answer' and a 'Caucus of dtc bakery cakes' Here's a few of mine to...
The question above to a question that I have posed over in Law as Barmaid and/or NJ may be well placed to give a view on it.....however, if any of you have experience with breaches of Sexual Offence...
Hi – probably for New Judge or Barmaid but maybe someone else has experience and advice on this? I have a female friend down here. Horrendously so, she was raped when a young teenager and then there...
Two Irish gentlemen walk into a pub in Cork, a give away by their beer choice that they are outsiders. They both sit down at the counter and place their orders - 2 pints of Guinness. As they’re...
Glaswegian jogger stops for a moment to get his breath back. A passing pedestrian complements him on a superb pair of trainers but advises he should properly secure the loose laces on his right shoe...