If it is buried in a land-fill will paper degrade back into compost and over what period of time? Glossy magazines are obviously different as is cardboard, but can anyone come up with general...
I have a delight every weekend in visiting a local fish bar where the owner batters and cooks a frexh fillet of cod for me. He is extremely hurt that over MANY years of visiting his shop I have never...
Whenever one hears a sum of money mentioned by a BBC newsreader it is expressed as "Pound" ; for instance, "?100 Pound" whereas surely the plural of pound is pounds? They do not refer to multiples of...
Why does it need to be so incredibly complicated to make any comment to a BBC website? There are so many hoops to jump through and names and numbers and passwords it is almost as though they are...
I also must agree with the complaints below regarding your new e-mail for questions answered. The link is not highlighted and I cannot click on it for immediate connection. If it ain't broke (and it...
I can recall when I was growing up in the 1950's there were no such things as 'use by' or 'sell by' dates on any types of food. I recall that particularly with tinned food we were very confident in...
I found a copy of the Telegraph dated 28/02/09 with the quick crossword untouched. For the first time in my memory I am left with three unsolved clues (HANGS HEAD IN SHAME) .. 1DOWN - FLUCTUATED in 2...
Some years ago I planted a couple of thousand daffodil bulbs amongst the trees and beyond at the end of our garden. We have had years of magnificent blooms and the coverage seems to have spread into...
I have just spent an hour juggling between Barclay's online banking and Barclay's telephone banking trying to transfer funds into my ING savings account. They simply would not do it in the end I had a...
When an American president is obliged to give up that office after his second stint he (or one day perhaps she) will be paid a considerable pension for the rest of their lives. Is the pension the same...
I have spent hours on the CAB web-site (what a farce) which proved beyond question that they spend more on incredibly complicated daft software than anything else. My boss gave me a doubtful...
Unfortunately I am at an age where the most reliable bed partner is a hot water bottle. I have one that was passed on to me by a friend a couple of years ago and I "forgot" to give it back. I noticed...
I am a grandfather and have a very good lady friend, who is exactly that, a lady and a friend. Although we wre both "single" neither has any interest in the other of a romantic nature, The lady is of...
I have just watched the last |DVD in the Rambo series and I am still in shock over the number of on-screen deaths. (and we wonder why our kids are killing each other with guns and knives when all of...
Of course I have probably been wandering around for 55 years with my eyes closed all summer but I cannot recall having noticed song birds from robins to blackbirds lounging on the grass with their...
Does anybody out there remember a trilogy of X rated, feature length, cinema cartoons about Fritz the Cat? The second one was called "Heavy Traffic" I think and I am amazed that nobody has ever...
I have experienced a few scruffy looking birds in my time but just lately I have been noticing some of the feathered variety (for a change) in my garden. One in particular is a male blackbird that...
I am very fortunate in having a family of speckled thrushes in my garden. One is a little larger than the other which I took to be an gender related difference. Recently the happy couple have been...
