I have some hard to access plug sockets so it is not easy to switch them on and off. If I leave one switched on with a cable running through it to charge a device, is electricity being used when the...
Which is the correct way to do inverted commas: [FOR EXAMPLE] 'Her mother said "Let's have tea" and boiled the kettle' OR "Her mother said 'Let's have tea' and boiled the kettle"?
I experienced a really upsetting incident in the garden yesterday. I noticed some feathers on the ground and behind a shrub was a very poorly looking wood pigeon. It had had one of its eyes 'pecked'...
Cant remember if I have asked this before.... ANyhooo My two 1 year old kitties (white birmans) are naughty to say the least. .and one has obviously found a local fox den, presumably with cubs.... I...
Given the recent media coverage of kids as young as 5 been forced into muslim marriages can anyone tell me, is this practice condoned in the koran or is it a cultural thing? Also, do people who...
In a specially designed craft, James Cameron recently completed a descent to the sea bed in the deepest part of the ocean. This was the second such expedition to be undertaken, and Richard Branson is...
I bought a second hand dolls pram for my grand-daughter to use at my house but I noticed there is a rod underneath the body that slots into a hole but it was originally soldered. Is it possible to use...
Earlier I was pottering around in the garden and noticed loads of very small ladybirds on undersides of plant leaves. Perhaps this is a sign of good weather ( 1976 ladybirds ) Are they baby ones or is...
A woman meant to call a record store but dialled the wrong number and got a private home instead. "Do you have 'Eyes of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme'?" she asked. "Well, no," answered...
You would be hard pressed to make it up.... As if the Church does not already have enough to worry about with all the allegations of paedophile priests, now some church decides to stage a kidnapping...
If someone was to call you a sheep, you would most likely take offence as they are inferring that you are a mindless idiot with no will of your own. Why is it though that people are happy to use this...
Apparently a black man in the US on death row has a better life expectency. I've done some googling and it seems it is true that the best way to increase the life expectency of a black person in the...
