Horse transport lorries invariably have the word HORSES or RACE HORSES painted on the back. Why? Lorries carrying cattle or sheep don't have COWS or SHEEP painted on them and I am at a loss to...
My rhubarb seems to be pushing up a stalk with a flower that looks a bit like a cauliflower head. I've not seen it flower before - should I just leave it, or removethe flower stalk.? Is itthe end for...
I have a Pointpoint presentation that I have to loan to another company, and I want to protect it so they cannot change it in anyway, just use it as is. How can I protect it?
Its Children in Need time again and those pledges are rolling in. But do we know what the difference is between the amount pledged and the amount of money they actually receive?
On theright of these Answerbank pages are a column of goooogle ads. One I've just seen is from a rubber stamp company says Return address stampsMandatory on all Mail in the UK! Order your...
At the beginning of summer Pizza Express started adding shredded beetroot to their mixed leaf salad (mixed saled leaf, a few tomatoes and sliced cucumber). Does anyone know why? It stains the salad...
The DVD drive in my PC doesn't recognise discs. I get a message to insert a disc in the drive even though there is one.I have tried new DVDs and ones I have played before. I haven't changed...
I'm puzzled how the short numbers (i.e. without the network code) used to enter competitions on TV etc work? Presumably all mobile operators must agree on them.
Suggestions please for a portable radio cassette player, easy to tune and with push button tuning. I have an 85 year old relative whose poor eyesight means she can no longer read books. She listens to...
This latest series of Hells Kitchen seems nothing more than an excuse to get viewers to phone premium rate lines - phoneto keep people on the show, phone to win a place in the restaurant, vote to...
Why do cable channels - I'm thinking of UK Gold and the rest of the UK lot & History Channel especially - bludgeon viewers with such long advert breaks. Its not only the paid for adverts, but...
Ultimate Force (the SAS actioner with Ross Kemp and a hot new female soldier he showed her all in ep 1) started on Saturday nights, but after just 3 episodes it was replaced by old Hercule Parrot...
Waitrose, Sainsburys, Morrisons - none of them have even a single bottle of any variety of Branston Pickle. Does anyone know when manufacture of this essential condiment will resume?
There are signs on petrolpumps instructing you to turn off your mobile phone while on the forecourt. How many of you do so? I never do. I read that it it is possible for the mobile phone...
I ciaght up with Spooks lastnight. In the preamble there was emntion of the 'Tom problem', and a new character is the hero. What happened to Tom? Did the actor who was playing him get tired of...
