My neighbour has a large patch of Pampas Grass which grows through my open-mesh fence and reaches a height of 10' or more. The wind has now broken most of the stems and these hang over into my garden...
In the current advert for Corsodyl, the young lady appears to have lost a tooth. I am surprised that she has only lost a tooth, walking around stark naked in a cornfield, as she does. Comment ?
My keyboard has some very useful 'extra' keys, but they won't work when typing answers
into Answerbank; they just obliterate everything and take me back to square one Why ?...
Beer/lager now costs upwards of £3 per pint in pubs. Why does anyone pay such horrendous prices for a commodity which retails at about 50p. per pint in the local supermarket ? Beer at home...
Many years ago, when I first studied the Highway Code, a large white circular road sign with a diagonal black stripe indicated 'Derestriction'. Obviously, no-one believed that any vehicle could...
A couple are viewing dogs for adoption. One, a mongrel called Harvey, displays his usefulness, playing chess, tucking-up the kids,polishing shoes, etc. Then he sits waiting with his suitcase packed...
I wished to pay a £20 credit card statement at Co-Op Bank. I offered a £20 note, but was informed that :'We can't accept cash, sorry'.
Since when was this not legal tender ?...
We hear that electrically driven cars are the way forward, and being 'green' are much to be recommended. However, I also read that such cars may not use their heaters, as this would reduce their...
To my mind, these were the gold-standard by which other adverts could be judged. They were witty, memorable and inclined me toward the product ++. Can't today's advertising agencies emulate their...
Somewhere I learned that all graduates in Italy, irrespective of discipline studied, are entitled to to honorary title of dottore (Doctor), as are practitioners of medicine in the UK, though very few...
The original Roman fortress at Usk (Burrium) in Gwent was abandoned due to regular flooding, and replaced with Isca Silurum at Caerleon. Could this flooding have been due to the Severn bore ? Any...
I watched this film on TV last night for as long as I could. It goes down in my book as the most fatuous, puerile and infantile movie ever made. If this is American humour I'm glad to be British. Too...
When are the birds going to come back to my garden ? Heaven knows, I put out enough food for them. I used to have about 40 resident sparrows. Come back, all is forgiven.
The original Jazz had CVT transmission. The newer Jazz has I-Shift transmission. Now, says
Honest John, the next Jazz will revert to CVT. What is going on ?...
Regularly, I read that the tides average 9 or10 metres twice per day at Cardiff, in the Severn estuary. Can't all the energy generated by these tides be harnessed and fed into the national grid ?
A speed camera caught me doing a reprehensible 35 mph in a 30mph zone, in heavy following traffic. It appears that I can avoid the 3 penalty points and £60 fine if I attend a 'Speed Awareness...
It is reported in the Daily Telegraph today that many people in the USA are fearing that the politics of President Obama are leading the USA into a form of European socialism. Among the conservatives...
We read that a pre-Norman hospital site has been found...possibly 10th. century. This is reported as the earliest evidence of such a structure in the UK. I beg to differ. In the huge legionary Roman...
