The seven ages of socks: 1. Someone else puts them on for you. 2. You can only just manage by lying on your back and bending your legs up. 3. You can do it but you must be sitting down. 4. For most of...
Aerial photographs of flooding usually show rural churches and surrounding houses high and dry. As most were built centuries ago this appears to demonstrate that these situations have been with us for...
Is anyone going to miss Department Store tea? I for one will not, as in most places it's truly awful, as though the water has been boiling away in the twenty year old boiler since it was new. If I...
The true importance of our politicians is about to be demonstrated - last week, this week, our world is falling apart...but next week the politicians all b...g.er off for three months, just like that....
Is it time the ubiquitous black trouser suit was dumped? They're fine when new but tend to be worn to the death, unpressed and with the bottoms of the trousers all chewed and manky. The shapeless flat...
Do you turn off the TV when visitors call? We've always switched off immediately when someone visits, family members included. It seems to me that this used to be the norm, but appears to be less so,...
I once worked with a chap who used to deliver flour to bakers and grocers etc. He told me that it came in 16 stone (100kg) bags which he had to lug off a lorry into the shops. I've always thought this...
Does anyone know where you can buy men's trousers with proper men's zippers? They have been getting shorter over time and now seem to be universally equipped with women's zips i.e. 120mm long (4.7...
The Queen thought it was her 70th wedding anniversary, but apparently she was mistaken...according to the BBC and Emily Maitlis she was married in 1937, with the Spanish Civil war raging and...
I have a photo on my computer which was copied from a slide onto a CD. The slide must have been inverted, so the photo is the wrong way round...can the computer fix this?...
Watched the anniversary ceremony from Ypres and very good it was too. I noticed that a lot of the Belgian soldiers had designer stubble, even Officers and I wonder if this will catch on with the...
I can't wait for it to come around and I think 48 days holiday is insufficient - it should be perhaps 98 days, to bring us closer to the Christmas recess, giving us all a lot more peace. As the MP's...
Why do people feel the need to be hauling a bottle of water or a huge coffee around everywhere? - it seems that to be "right on" you have to do the "coffee walk" into work each day looking like a...
Is everyone going to have a beard? The tennis final from Queens is on TV and both men have fine beards, as have all the photographers, trainers and most of the linesmen and officials - the men that...
Are "celebs" taking over TV? It seems every programme now has to have a celebrity version, plus they have muscled in on all sorts of programmes - even "The Sky At Night" and "Countdown"! Tonight...
Just watched a programme about him - very impressive. He works alone, does the filming, edits it, then sends it out to all the News channels around the world who jointly employ him. He seems to have a...
How long did it take for Foyle's Sergeant to grow a new leg? I'm watching an early episode and he's on crutches - but in later episodes he can jump in and out of cars and walk up and down stairs quite...
