A large egg has appeared in a garden in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It's about three inches long & two inches wide, white with light grey flecks. It was left on the ground under a large clump of...
I have been inspired by the word association and so I thnk we should make an AB story everyone puts a line at a time but dont let it get offensive etc because then it gets boring! Ok so first line -...
Would some kind Francophone write a short 'thank you' note for me to copy and send to the parents of a Parisienne friend we visited in Paris recently. My wife and I are learning French but are still...
I just remembered this trawling through other questions in this category: Many years ago (it could have been in the 70s) I heard a track playing in a shop that seemed to be composed of snippets of...
Where has the widespread misuse of the apostrophe come from. The apostrophe (as I was taught) is used to denote missing characters or to denote possession. Nobody has ever been taught in any school to...
At primary school I read a story in which some old wellies or boots of some kind were left out in a garden and ended up with nasturtiums growing in them. Can anyone please help me with a title?...
Does anyone know the name of the flexible rod they use in desk lamps? (it allows you to move it to any position and it stays there) And where can I buy some of this stuff? Cheers
Does anyone here know where I can hear a clip of the Black Beauty theme tune, I have been trying since yesterday to remember how it goes without success, I've also had the same success googling.
Where I come from originally (Yorkshire), we used to call them ginnels or snickets. When I met my husband he'd never heard of them. Just wondering how many 'names' there are for these things. Would...