Could you crystallize gold/aluminium/etc. (Or even mixtures of them!) from mercury? Or can M@C60 be crystallized to give an effectively rigid array of 'metallo' atoms? Does gold/copper displace...
As Stephen Fry said at the jubilee, we are all 'Elizabethans', but since there is already an Elizabethan period in history, how will people refer to this period of history, hundreds of years in the...
Been out this morning taking the bunting down ( no easy feat) with my neighbour , he’s got the ladders,everything looks so bare today and it’s drizzling as well, feels like that feeling when your tree...
I called to make an appointment with my GP this morning and the receptionist told me I could have a phone conversation with her next Monday morning. What happened to the days when you go into the...
In my era and my kids experience, it would have been unthinkable that one would go on holiday 2 weeks before A or O levels. To be stranded abroad with your exams tomorrow would have been and in my...
Those of us old enough to remember George VI and his passing possibly recall in what high esteem he was held at the time. His courage and solidarity through a most difficult period for the country was...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61693296 Can you hear that noise? No, not the boos and jeers this time. That is the sound of the death knell for the Prime Minister. Looks like he will be put...
Decided to make a bottle of orange juice from fresh oranges for neighbour and I can honestly tell you I have it about 3 years and only used it about 3 times (but do love the orange juice from it)....
hi, my alexa show 5 has gonesilent. All the buttons pertaining to volume are "On", whenever i ask her to play somethiing or do something it appears she is (ie i can turn my sockets on and off). So i...
The above is one of the "problem" items listed in the Instruction Booklet for my new microwave oven. Something's got lost in the translation I feel. https://ibb.co/BwXBFQg The instruction leaflet is...
Can I start off by asking, please be kind. I am heart broken, and hurting. So you may have seen my previous posts. I was with a man I love still, very deeply. I am a single parent and have nothing. I...
In London, there's a woman who allegedly goes every day on the Tube and sits on the platform just to listen to the announcement recorded by her husband in 1950. Margaret McCollum, after the death of...
I woke early one morning, the earth lay cool and still, When suddenly a tiny bird perched on my window sill, He sang a song so lovely, so carefree and so gay, That slowly all my troubles began to slip...