1.After watching the South Bank Show special on Boxing Day regarding the Real Mary Poppins.I didn't know that there had been a few Mary Poppins books.Can anyone tell me if there was a sequal to the...
i was asked recently by my daughter if the decimal in december mean`t that once it was the tenth month. i remember at school that july was added by julius caesar but i cant remember the second does...
My son believes implicitly in the formula for circumferences whichever one it is!! And we have this argument. If you laid a rope around the equator it would have to be X'000 miles...
Many years ago in my college days, we were hanging out with friends at someone's home, when someone asked me to pass her the "afghan". This puzzled me, as I didn't know what she meant, which...
My cat was sick this morning and in it had something that looked like string. Could it have been a worm? I must admit he has a tendency of eating anything including sellotape and actually...
What are people's views on these? You know, those CV type letters that are included with Christmas cards. They come from people you never see, telling us that they went to Cuba for a month and that...
Thanks to gypsy, wraith all who offered suggestions for pagan - yule - soltice imagery. There were some great web sites you recommended! One of them mentioned symbols like fire, sun and horn.... Horn?...
What's the point - I think they're damn horrible, and in fact don't know anybody who likes them (I've been to a number of formal dinners over the xmas period, and avocado, in some form or another, has...
Trying to remember the name of the author of a series of crime novels set in North America (lots of snow in winter!) where a local female church minister works with the local police chief to solve...
I was reading today that there is a new type of tomato coming to the UK, black in colour and is used as an aphredisiac in the caribean, but can anyone tell me what recipes these can be used in and can...