Could post this under books but this seems better. Very bright 13 year old, already being sent on advanced maths courses for her age by her school in Canada, which thinks thinks she benefits from...
We have a manager at work who these last few days has used the saying we need more joined up writing, she means this in relation to us all getting on doing our work no niggles etc . None of us at work...
Can anyone give me examples of a mass noun. So often on Countdown
Susie Dent disallows a word because it is a mass noun and I wondered what
the rules were?...
Hi, I appreciate this is a complicated issue but if anyone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. My father has just died leaving a will in which he leaves half his estate to...
Does anyone know why the half-term holiday has been taken so early this year?
Shrove Tuesday is not until next week and Easter starts 6th April so it's most unusual....
I know February only has 28 days so it's kind of logical to stick the extra day there, but wouldn't be nicer to have the extra day of a leap year somewhere in the Summer (say, the end of July or...
I have an old soldering iron and i am going to fit plug on it - however the wires are red, black and white, rather than blue, brown and green/yellow... can anyone tell me which is which? no guessing...
We are led to believe that the development of the human body came about by a trial and error process, and eventually arrived at the practical compromise that we now accept as something resembling...
A friend of mine had a pre-auction offer accepted by the seller on a property. She incurred an admin charge of 400 pounds from the auction house, although the property was to be sold under Private...
My missus caught me cutting paper with her hairdressing scissors the other day and went beserk on the basis that "cutting paper with a hairdressing scissors will blunt the scissors". This...
Just watching The Politics Show ' and didn't realise that over the lasr 3yrs we (Britain) have printrd 3bn - yes 3bn in exrara money, supposedly to get us out of recession, apparently all sanctioned...
I'm considering selling my home, I must now succumb to the fact that I can now longer keep up financially with mortgage and cost of living etc. I've held on as long as possible after coming out of a...
also stamps. When HM leaves this mortal coil, (personally I hope not for quite a time but that's by-the-by) How long would it take the Mint et al to remove from circulation and replace with a...
Ads all over AB are one thing and I largely mentally blank them out. However, I have just been "bombarded" by the National Geo vid and this is something that I could definitely do...
When we were kids, if we wanted a truce in the middle of a game we would cross fingers and cry ' 'Feign-nites'. Not sure of the spelling, but that's how it sounded. Any idea of its origin ? Cheers. D...
When I clicked on the BBC news link at the top of the News section, my Norton internet security popped up the message below.. Why would it do that? This is a known malicious web site. It is...