Byron's recipe for dealing with a hangover begins, 'Ring for your valet, bid him quickly bring some hock and soda water'. Can anyone improve on this ? - my valet seems to have disappeared this...
On December 31st 2006, the UK paid the final instalment of £45.5 million to the USA, thus discharging the last of its Word War II loans, some 50 years after contracting them. Why should the...
I am doing an on line interactive language course, and having slightly impaired hearing, find some voices unclear. My headphones have an in-line volume control but I would like to adjust the tone...
Sometimes in the mornings when setting my DVD player to record a later programme I witness children's programmes put out on C.Beebies, which seem to me to be manic and absolutely appalling; the...
I'm puzzled by the fact that at a cost of billions and so many people having made a lucrative career out of this, that it would be exciting if it didn't exist! 'If they do discover the Higgs, it would...
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...