A cry we hear daily.... but without viable, effective and instant alternatives, how can we 'just stop oil'? ... but if we 'just stop oil' what do we replace it with? I did hear a suggestion that we...
... hoping to experience heat record. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66229286 Death Valley is, in my experience, bad enough at the best of times. I wonder what the emergency services...
Baking hot today and outside in the sunshine I’m being tormented by tiny black flies. Thousands of them. My question is where do they go when it isn’t baking hot?...
'Teachers, doctors, police… none are what they were', says Tony Parsons writing in the Sun. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22894582/tony-parsons-society-crumbling-teachers-doctors-police/ These are...
To accompany the Great Gadgets thread, what do you have that seemed a good idea at the time but after a couple of outings now lives tucked away permanently in a cupboard? For me a bread maker and an...
For me, gone are the days of struggling with a pizza cutting wheel. I'm not the strongest of people - a wuss if truth be known - who, having failed hopelessly with the wheel, invariably ended up...
Not a question - just interesting reading - and pondering. //This may be the first direct evidence of giant black holes distorting space and time as they spiral in on each other. One of the groups...
So says Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. He goes on to say 'a drive towards banning anything possibly upsetting risks turning us into robots….We can’t expect other people to tiptoe around us in case...
//'It's become disruption for the sake of disruption,' Neilson told The Times. 'Working people that are trying to get to their job, get their kid dropped off at school, survive a brutal cost of living...
....after London man left with scarring. Just a word of warning to dog walkers and parents out enjoying the sunshine with their children to keep their eyes open for this....
My first was with a boy called Freddy, and I liked it. My second was with a very handsome, hunky Italian boy on a school trip abroad - name, unlike his kiss, long forgotten Tongues - and me only 14...
//Russia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Vladimir Putin says. Russia's president told a forum they would only be used if Russia's territory or state was...