By which I mean, the importance of manners, being kind to others and animals, having self-respect and decorum, benevolence etc. .... well, you know what I mean. All emphasis now seems to be on 'being...
I'm having a few friends around to have a drink this evening in the garden, but there are a lot of wasps which seem to like the spot too. They are attracted by fallen apples and I have collected, and...
Klaatu: I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.
Helen: Gort? But he's a robot. Without you, what could he do?
Klaatu: ............?...
I've used up all the jars I have with jam (15 pounds) and the tree has still masses of red mirabelles. Would it be OK to make more, put the jam in small plastic food bags, and freeze them?
In a book I have just read, a passage deals with Polish soldiers and a mix-up between smoking and non-smoking railway compartments during WW2. Can any rail enthusiasts, or indeed can anyone remember...
Apologies for the lateness of this, but it has only just come to my attention, courtesy of John Julius Norwich. It comes from the Edinburgh Evening News in 1978. 'While they were waiting at a bus stop...
Suddenly I can't get into outlook; I get a panel asking for me to logon with my address and password a (as dots), 'Remember password' is checked but it won't logon, 'Error' appears. Previously logon...
'German luxury sportscar maker Porsche is mulling a reissue of the iconic 550 Spyder model owned by US actor James Dean, boss Matthias Mueller said on Thursday in the business daily Handelsblatt....
I have a large tin of (expensive) oil paint, now half empty, and finished with for a while. Apart from the messy business of transferring it to a smaller container, is there a way to stop it from...
My daughter reminded me of an ad. of a few years ago; a lady has an annoying squeak as she drives along, she goes to a desert garage and an elderly, oily, mechanic traces it to her earing, to which he...
I have a red mirabelle tree and have potted a small (6") one I found growing under it from one of its fruit. Will this be fertile and eventually produce fruit ? I seem to remember some fruit...
A refugee from tennis, I found myself watching the above, I really couldn't believe how bad it was. If there was a 'Misere' award for a program that could last two hours, with virtually no plot, poor...
Why when he says these things , are they called 'gaffes', it's just humour isn't it? If they were said by a stand-up comic (he would be excellent) they would just be seen as fun, the press can't...
I'm not sure under which topic to place this. Having had no response yet from Q.&P. I'll try here; I want to buy a computer chess set with reasonably sized chess board, not the little 'travel in...
I want to buy a computer chess set with reasonably sized chess board, not the little 'travel in the back of a car' jobs. I am not an absolute beginner, but I'm not that good either. Price doesn't...
I'm finding these continual Google logo changes for often trivial anniversaries, naive, uninteresting, and worst of all, badly designed. Does anyone else feel this, or am I being churlish?
