Sparklykid in his post below says he’s having fish, chips and gravy for dinner today. I find the idea of gravy on fish very odd indeed but I have a friend who puts the oddest foods together. In that...
Not a question - just a curiosity for the curious. A yellow organism, which looks like fungus but acts like an animal, has gone on display at a Paris zoo. Unfortunately they don't say where it was...
I’m away from home at the moment and watching the news on the Euronews channel where the lead story is the eco nutters’ protest in London. All that’s happening in the world and they choose that...
….after two women claim she operated ‘whites-only’ recruitment policy. But it transpires that no one, be they white, black, or green with purple spots, was hired. She rejected all five ethnic...
V_E hasn’t been around for a while and ladybirder hasn’t posted for over a month. Anyone? If they’re looking in I do hope they’re just fed up and taking a break from posting rather than...
The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd … it’s curtain up for AnswerBank’s Got Talent! Odd, imaginative (keep it clean!), or real, just for a bit of fun, what’s yours … and what...
//The yearbook picture, obtained by Time Magazine, shows a 29-year-old Mr Trudeau wearing a turban and skin-darkening make-up on his face, neck and hands for an Arabian Nights-themed costume party at...
//Diversity was at the heart of this Last Night of the Proms programme. The concert opened with a new work, by Daniel Kidane, called Woke, and the first half was dominated by the music of black and...
//Bosses last week warned the lifeboat charity is facing “some major challenges” after making losses of £6.3million last year. But donations to the service are being spent on creches in...
Since I’ve only ever seen the excellent Kris Marshall playing the dopey, but very funny, son of Ben Harper in ‘My Family’, I’m finding it difficult to take the character Tom Parker in Sanditon...
A discussion on radio this morning about BT’s intention to remove a number of the remaining telephone boxes posed the question, ‘When did you last use a public telephone?’ Should they be...
//Sir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's use of private jets - and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.// https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49398852 Does this...
//The level of migration from the EU to the UK has been underestimated by the Office for National Statistics from the mid-2000s to 2016. The ONS said the error affected the number of migrants from...
//Jack Letts tells Sky News he doesn't mind losing his British citizenship because he doesn't want to be governed by Boris Johnson.// Well, he’s cracked that one – but he wants to fight against...