Not sure if this is the right place. I remember in films and on tv, knights calling their king something like " I cant spell this bit " My Leeg or Leej" Thats how it sounded. Did it mean "My Lord"?...
My brother is getting married soon and his fiance is organising most of the wedding. Well, to cut the long story short, this is what's happened... I have done lots for my brother and his fiance, I've...
My Mother (god bless her) has asked me to buy a traditional New Orleans Band jazz cd for a friends birthday - however she has no idea of any artists to look at or even what era - "just something that...
Hysteria has already started to take hold of some of the less informed members of the anti smoking brigade. I refer of course to the smoking ban in enclosed premises that comes into force on July 1st...
OK, I live out in the country, in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands. The area regularly gets snowed in during the winter and the roads are rarely gritted in bad weather. So I do actually need a...
St George's Day could be a public holiday within the next couple of years if reports are to be believed. There has always been a reluctance to make April 23 a countrywide holiday, but Scotland's...
For the purposes of surveys, are there standard regions into which the United Kingdom is divided, and where can you obtain a list of the postcodes within each region?
I'm trying to find out the proper name of a film that i'd like to give as a birthday gift. We think it mite be called Charlie but ain't sure. All we know is that its about a disabled man who is given...
a friend of mine who is a civil servant has told me that the majority of c/s get maundy thursday afternoon off with pay, cant understand why, arent any of us other "humble" people entitled to it as...
Why do people call gay men faggots? where does it come from? whats the logic? I mean, I dont see the logic in any prejudice behavior but whats the relevance? how are gay men like meatballs? I was just...
No doubt this was asked a few years ago but for what reason did we go from 1999 nineteen ninety-nine to 2000 two thousand and not twenty hundred and who decided on changing? I hope you can help as a...