Can anyone help me to identify a Jack Reacher novel which is set in the past in which he helps his brother to escape from an U.S. army base where he has been falsely accused of a crime he did nor...
I have had a Swiss Army penknife for some years and the blades and other tools attached to it are so very difficult to open, very, very stiff. I have tried oil and WD40 without result. It seems the...
Simply that: when I attempt to solve a crossword I intend to submit for a prize I make a copy, try to solve it using the copy and when I consider it is correct and complete I transfer it on to the...
I have an open fire in my lounge with a cast iron fire gate in which the fire burns. I noticed some years ago that empty aluminium cans when put on the hot embers of a coal fire degrade, the can,...
Can anyone please help me in finding a "Drama documentary" entitled "The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries". It's about a man in Bristol falsely accused of murdering a young female tenant of his. It...
I have recently tried a packet of Sainsbury's Ginger biscuits and found them fairly bland with none of the "punch" that Ginger biscuits used to have. Can anyone please inform me of where I can obtain...
When I was a young man I recall going to Deepdale to watch Preston North End play Blackburn Rovers. Preston won 5-3. I remember Tom Finney was playing for Preston and Bryan Douglas for Blackburn. Can...
When I was young and I was likely to be late for anything my Mother used to say to me; "come on and jig weasels." It meant I had to hurry up. Does anyone know where this expression originated?...
Could anyone please give the passwords on yesterday's Daily Telegraph (Saturday Sept. 5th) that go with tomorrow's Monday Herculis crossword.? I didn't receive my copy owing to some "issues" at some...
A few years ago I took a pleasure cruise on the river Nile through the capital Cairo. In this surprisingly beautiful city from the river we steamed though the heart of it past magnificent old...
A lady of means has told me that she gained the nickname "camel" when a young girl at boarding school and has challenged me to attempt to work just why she should have become so known. I realise this...
I have just finished reading "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", a collection of short story pastiches collected and introduced by Richard Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin in 1985. In...
I am experiencing a most irritable symptom on my television recordings. When I record a programme, especially sports and snooker is the worst culprit it often occurs that although setting for the...
Can anyone give a word that describes a person who takes delight in not knowing something that most people would know. e.g. First person, "I hear Elvis Presley has died". Second person, "Never heard...