Dear all, I thought that I had read the definitive answer to this question but now I have found out that *that* answer was incorrect - hence I am turning to the font all of all knowledge -... ...
Last weekend I travelled to Edinburgh for a university reunion from the South of England, with Storm Babet causing a multitude of problems. I have put a claim in to LNER for the almost 24-hour... ...
Dear all, I am doing some [more] family research and have got the birth certificate of one of my family - born in 1863 in Largs (Ayrshire) but I cannot read/decipher the birthplace - I can make a stab...
Dear all, For my father's birthday I want to buy him a hologram/holographic wall picture - my wife bought me one several years ago for my Christmas from a store that has since closed down, so that...
As it is the end of the growing season, we are clearing out our vegetable plot and our sheep are watching us longingly as we dig up all the greenery. I know that runner beans contain lectin and...
I am sure that someone will know but I couldn't quite make out the relevant command issued to the bearer party at the wonderful funeral procession of HM the Queen, at the point where the coffin is...
Dear all I want to develop a database that purely runs for me, on my laptop, in my home - ie no cloud computing/access required from anyone else. The main/most relevant requirement is that Java is not...
With all this sunshine I was looking at making a solar shower, as it gets very costly to use the immersion heater to warm a tankful of water for 2 people. My idea was to use a length of black...
Something that has got me stumped in HTML - not the actual display or anything but the syntactic and semantic meaning of something. I needed to analyse some HTML - which I understand and have various...
When I was growing up in the 1970s, hamburgers were exactly that - burgers of ham. But now, everything is a BEEFburger. I do miss the taste of hamburgers but cannot seem to source them anywhere. Any...
Dear all I understand what BT FON *is* but am just curious as to how it works. Where I live, I can see three or four BT router "hubs" that belong to my neighbours, so "Hub4-XXXX", "Hub4-YYYY" etc,...
Dear all With Christmas coming I want to buy a new toaster and kettle for my wife, who has recently re-designed and rebuilt our kitchen. I want to buy a toaster and kettle pair, in red. The latter I...
The Daily Telegraph has featured a reflector telescope for the past couple of months (Zennox 76x700), reduced from £250 to £70. I have looked at some reviews online - sone people say that this model...
Dear all I know that the general gist of this question has been asked before, but technology has moved on since they were asked I want to buy a new MP3 player as mine is now a bit dated - a Sony...
All, Does anyone know of a supplier of pouches to fit on a walker's (military-style) webbing? The webbing belt I have has TWO rows of holes in it and all of the pouches that I have seen in the shops...
Dear all We are having a property renovated and the next stage is being worked upon. We have plumbers installing the "first fix" pipework (ie the pipes that take the hot and cold supplies from the...
I have found a couple of answers regarding satellite broadband here but some of them were fairly old so I was looking for some more up to date information. BT (who I have a lot of time for) have given...
Dear all My wife and I will be celebrating a landmark wedding anniversary next year and I want to have a piece of music composed for her. I have a rough idea what I want - but am struggling to find...
Can someone please help an aged brain?! Many, many moons ago when I was at university, one of my close friends was studying statistics and of course we talked about or respective subjects. One of the...
I am going into hospital to undergo a catheter ablation to hopefully cure atrial fibrillation. I have been told my INR must be between 2 and 3 for the procedure to go ahead. A fortnight ago it was in...
