I'm writing an article for publication and I've written; "........and we discussed the Italians who meant so much to him; Marini, Giacometti, Rosso, Manzù......" Should it be who or whom please? My...
My Gmail account is secondary to my main one, but when I now try to enter it I get a request to 'Add Gmail to my Google account' which seems to want me to make Gmail into my main account which I don't...
Someone whom I have been dealing with by phone and mail up to now I met this morning, and was surprised discovered that he was physically handicapped - he is a lawyer and a victim of thalidomide - he...
Several years ago I recorded on to audio cassettes 10, half hour programmes on BBC Radio 3, called 'Bluebird blues', containing lots of very rare 1930's records on the Bluebird label. The sound is...
Did you know that dogs defecate in accordance with the earth's magnetic field?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jan/08/dogs-defecate-earths-magnetic-field-research-finds...
Did anyone see those beautiful costumes she designed for the dancers in the Barenboim new year concert from Vienna? - gorgeous, fabulous contribution to a stunning international event, makes me feel...
I've now been able to connect my new Panasonic TV to it's 'Viera' function and can watch YouTube, but there is a bewildering amount of stuff there. Is there such a thing as an index or catalogue of...
Watching "The Great Train Robbery" last night I nearly cried to see Jim Broadbent's (DCS Tommy Butler's) car, It was exactly the car I had in the mid-sixties; a black 2.4 Mark 1 Jaguar, there were...
I read from, 'Sämtliche Werke und Briefe in Vier Bänden', a biography of the Berlin German woman poet; Mascha Kaléko, that in 1952 she sent one of her poems to Albert Einstein, the opening line...
I have been approached by a company wanting to use some of my drawings on its products. I was asked if I would care to sell them the copyright and I have declined, but said I would prefer to accept a...
When I open Windows XP I get a pop up; ' Run as' asking me 'which account do you want to use ..' I have tried using 'system restore', but for the first time in my computing life it does not work...
Baroness Warsi says banning the burka would be like banning the mini-skirt http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10421608/Banning-veil-would-be-like-outlawing-miniskirts-says-Baroness-Warsi.html...
A CD-R, I used to use a while ago- it's a language course- now doesn't open up, instead I get a message; 'Unsupported Configuration. Sorry your screen resolution is not supported. Try a different...
Now the sparrows have learnt all the acrobatic tricks of the blue and great tits I have been feeding for several years, the aggressive sparrows don't give the tits a look-in. I don't mind feeding the...