Especially in this era of stay-at-home deprivation, to open a packet of biscuits or sweets seems a fair reward for getting on belatedly with the neglected household chores. But it's not as simple as...
depend on the percentage out there, and how many you meet. The fewer the better, obviously. I'm not talking about the chances of getting infected because distancing, maybe masks and other protections...
If Joe Bloggs self-diagnoses (correctly), he does his 14 day isolation without bothering or notifying any medical authority, then returns healthily to normal activity, how can he possibly show up on...
by resorting far too much to convenient coincidences for plot twists or to heighten tension for a character who already has enough problems to be getting on with e.g. tonight: Eileen (pain-in-the-a......
... doesn't have a surname, according to the ever-sycophantic Dennis Taylor. Whereas his opponent almost always has two names, Mark Selby. Count out the mentions during the rest of the final and see...
Now they can name and shame the guilty ones at hospitals and the BBC who were told about Savile but did nothing. If we feel obliged to embarrass apparently negligent social workers when a child is...
is it better when there are other bus services passing along the same road or is it better when yours is the only one? In other words, do you feel more cheerful when a bus emerges in the distance,...
FAO methyl When I do a Spybot system cleanup, it always detects Delta Toolbar as a relation of Google Chrome. It cleans up all the other detections but can never do it with Delta, even when I try it...
Conchita may be a good singer and a deserved winner but a bearded man dressed up as a woman has ceased to be original or amusing. After dozens of supposedly funny tv adverts the novelty has worn off....
When I do full scans, it completes the job after about 400,000 items. (My friend has 800,000!) I have about a million words in documents but very few pictures and not many music downloads and no...
I don't know why this case was proceeded with when we have a reluctant witness/ victim who admitted he was not offended at the time, some doubt about the words used (the prosecution weren't to know...
rundown apartment house (8) I know the answer is "tenement" but am I the only one who, as a non-tenement dweller, finds the description "rundown" both unnecessary and insulting?...
16a difficult, severe (5) H-A-Y I can't see past heavy, but it's a pathetic clue for a commonplace word which has 27 listings in the thesaurus which do include "difficult" but not...
Now that BP's new trouble-shooter is an American, Bob Dudley, can we expect a reduction in the anti-British feeling over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Brits are sometimes said to be xenophobic but it...