Christmas adverts - cartoon characters which used to be aimed at children. 'Literature' - which is often about magic and dragons and fairies and princesses or angels, which used to be aimed at...
Had a call today from an automated David Attenborough soundalike spieling on about Brexit affecting the planet etc and asking me to press 2 if I wanted more info. I eventually hung up. Ha anybody else...
I understand that a meat organisation is objecting to the use of terms such as 'vegetarian sausages' and 'vegeburgers', feeling that they may mislead some people. Does anybody here think that such...
I've used Johnstone's floor paint (oil based) to paint wooden front door step. I prepped by scraping and sanding, then filling. Both times the black paint has within a few months cracked and peeled....
Before we were born we didn't exist, so time only started at our birth. Perhaps after we die we don't exist, so time would stop then. Eternal life wouldn't be eternal if life had a beginning or an...
If there is intelligent life on other planets, they might well have religions. Do christians here think that god would have sent them a version of Jesus?
They came through our village last Thursday. I got one decent pic; the Bora German team with one of the lads on his mobile phone saying, "No!! I don't want insulation for a Euro!! I'll try to post the...
Bit of a long shot. Anyone here make wine from their own grapes? Mine are red and I have crushed them and left to ferment on the skins but I don't know how long to leave them before pressing. I think...
Travelling fish and chip van here in rural France is offering pangasuis and chips. Internet says it is a sort of farmed freshwater catfish from Thailand etc and it doesn't sound too good to me. I...
I've heard such comments. I'm reading Verdun 1916, and I live part-time in a French village. It seems to me that they have both. They certainly have a sense of humour, although people who don't...