I'm 97% sure that I saw a recipe for almond slice in the Weekend Magazine of the Daily Mail within the last four or five weeks. If anyone has it, can you please answer with the recipe if it's not too...
How many times have you read or heard the word 'crescendo' being misused? I have lost count. (Tbh, I never started counting.) Almost everybody seems to think it means a peak or a climax. Just search...
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that bands don't split up any more, marriages don't fall apart, nothing collapses? - everything IMPLODES! It's just ridiculous the way this word is now...
All the "Cash for Gold" adverts. What happened to them? A few months ago there was one or another during every advertising break on TV. Now I can't remember when I last saw one. Were they...
Well, I think I know the answer, but I wanted to find as many examples as I could of pairs of words beginning with 'French', like French windows, French cricket, French leave, French letter. According...
When someone's name suits the job they do? Like Mr Taylor, who is a tailor, or Mr Coates, who sells coats. Do you know any that are not quite so obvious, where the link between the name and the...
I watched this programme with some dismay, as members of 'London's Finest' effed and blinded, using language that would get Saturday night revellers arrested for using. I was a little surprised that...
The Lion King has just been released in 3D. Since the original was made in 1994, and I suppose with no view to re-releasing it 17 years in the future in 3D, how has it been done? With computers,...
I recently made a "ginger cake with prunes". I believe that I followed the recipe, and when I tested the cake with a skewer it came out clean. But when I cut a slice of it I saw that only...
Can anybody translate "Nulla proportio tanto ardentius"? It is frescoed on a wall in the Palazzo Grimani in Venice. I have tried the Google translate service, but it did not really help....
That's it, really. I have a hedge of alternating conifers of two different types - I've no idea what they are, but they aren't leylandii, I'm pretty sure of that. I like to keep the hedge about 4 -5...
I have several crowns of rhubarb in my garden. The stalks grow only very short, though the leaves are very large. They have not been planted here for very long. I understand they should not be forced...
A reward of £15000 for information leading to the recovery of the Stradivarius violin stolen in December last year was offered by the insurance company. When my son had his bag stolen on a...
This programme was on yesterday (5 December), but it has been on before. The fact that it was old was given away by the item about Keith Duffy who is now back in the Street, but wasn't when this...
Why is there a 'season' for high water in Venice (round about October, November, December)? They occasionally get a higher than normal tide at other times of the year, but it's a rare event. They get...
Do you know a good way to get the lacquer coating off brass? Some of my brass door knobs still look as good as new after many years, but others look a mess where the lacquer has become scratched. I...
I now know that 'vermillion' is an allowed (in some dictionaries, but not Chamber's) spelling of 'vermilion'. Does anybody out there (Quizmonster, for example) know what is the history of these two...
Our 4-bed 1980s house has been plagued by mice for years. They seem to be mainly in the loft, but my wife reckons she can hear them in the space between the two floors. Things have been a lot better...
How does this work? They have put in a yellow phosphor, I believe, but since the TV picture signals only contain information on how bright the red, green and blue phosphors should be, what signal will...
