How illegal / foolish is it to coast? Maybe not so bad now that car brakes are so effective and gearboxes synchromeshed? I get 64mpg from my 1.9 diesel, and drive up to 70 mph on M ways and accelerate...
I usually grow doubles, e.g, French Marigolds which bees get no nectar or pollen from. Any suggestions please, for readily obtainable annual PLANTS which they will visit?
Penguin pb of many years ago, Digging up the Past(?), gave histories of several, Leonard Woolley etc, digging in Mesopotamia, Assyria etc. Rawlinson(?). lost a barge laden with finds in one of the...
Anyone who saw the last-minute excavations in Turkey before the site was flooded may well have thought this was one of the saddest archaological events ever recorded. Although appreciating that there...
**If** the resolve of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and their ability to outspend its weaponry resulted in the collapse of the USSR, it might have been considered that it was 'A Good Thing'....
I'm finding hard to understand how it's possible to grow elephant grass, willow or whatever in sufficient quantity to make it worthwhile to burn in power stations. The physical size of such material...
Evey time I see one of these I turn it over and find the rag has been pulled / sewn through hessian or whatever. My grandmother, bn 1880 in London, who went into service in Tunbridge Wells, Kent used...
Seeking assurance that provided only https sites are used to give CC details etc, then the chance of my accounts being raided and / or identity stolen are at a minimum. Presumably, the villains who...
The aroma when baking is good but my wholemeal bread made in a machine lacks flavour even though made with the very best flour I can get. Is this because of the this type of yeast (from Tesco)?
I'd appreciate a simple explanation please. Buy shares 1 June and make a profit of ?200 by selling 6 August. But what is the arithmetic if share sold at a profit of ?200 a fews days after buying?
Why does this phrase keep coming to mind? Was it a book, a book's chapter, a period drama? Does it chime with a memory of a 19C TV drama series of an old man and little girk wandering East London,...
Wanted. Name of film in which a (Canadian?) Red indian is hauled up by ropes passed thro his pectoral muscles. I seem to recall the practise is banned, but allowed for the purposes of this film.
The visual images on the remastered 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' on DVD are excellent, but it seems that nothing was done to upgrade the sound track. What were the possibilities here, technically,...
I'm trying to understand tne following description of the progress of the sun towards sunset. "Our house faces southwest. Right now (1 July), the sun is setting far to the north in the west, so our...