I know that not everyone is happy with Sochi hosting the Games. During the bidding process, the final three candidates were Sochi, Salzburg, and some place in South Korea. Obviously ... it should have...
Less than two weeks until the new season.
Our top domestic sports tournament, the Netball SuperLeague.
There are one or two changes to the league format this year.
I'll keep you posted....
Do we still get pleasure from going out to the shops? Having some fresh air, and talking to a real, live shop keeper? I never have a newspaper delivered, because I like to walk down to East Street,...
The first ever crossword was published in New York, one hundred years ago this weekend, in a publication called The World.
Happy 100th Birthday, to the Crossword....
Logically, we know Santa can't get round the whole world in one night on 24 December. So he does a few countries early. In Switzerland, they have Santa on 6 December. But ... He doesn't fly in with...
Lindt pistachio chocolate with almond pieces ... chomp, chomp, chomp, gulp (snap) chomp, chomp, gulp (snap) chomp, chomp ... Apparently it has a REALLY short shelf life, like two days, and you have to...
I know this has been shown before in past years, but it's still worth seeing. When the team scores the first goal of the ice hockey season, the crowd throw teddies onto the ice, and then they are all...
... news item. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/german-police-officer-cannibal-detlev-2864465 LOL Not funny for the guy who got eaten, obviously, but ... You have to love stories like this....
So the (new) prosecutor in the Knox/Sollecito case is "demanding" that the guilty verdict is reinstated, and that Amanda's sentence is increased to thirty years. Why? Because they now believe that...
... thuccotash! What are "Lima beans" ??? I wonder if they have them in Waitrose? Yikes! I thought making succotash was going to be straight forward. (stands in kitchen looking blank and gazing out to...
Happy happy happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day, ABers !!
Hope a few of us have been out for a jolly glass at lunch time.
And a few weeks of enjoyment ahead.
Yummers!...
So I'm reading this book ... http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/oct/13/highereducation.news It's giving me a whole new perspective on Wagner. Apparently he never read Nietzsche. Reappraisal of...
I go to the iTunes Store on my iPad. I buy a song. I want the song on one of my laptops so I can transfer to my iPod. I go to the iTunes Store on my lappy. It says ... you have bought this song, do...