I'm generally sceptical of the paranormal and view with suspicion the claims of psychics, spiritualists and the like. However I personally know many people who have had some very strange and...
I don't like to see dead and dying flowers on a grave and I don't go over the top decorating around my late husband's headstone as seems to be the norm now. I made a beautiful wreath and every three...
In our local paper there is an item about someone of 65 years who was rescued from the river, and the rescuer (aged 55) describes the man as "the old guy". I don't consider 65 to be old, but what is...
I do, i think there is a team that keeps an eye out and if it's a near miss we're only told when it's safe and is definitely going to miss us but then this leaves the other side of the coin. Just when...
The atheist of today, thinks that in this modern nuclear, space age it has become old-fashioned to believe in an invisible god. Yet today every worshiper who claims to have a atheist god is challenged...
Morrison Supermarkets have Stewing Steak on Offer this week at £6.50 per kilo and Ox Kidney at £3.49 per kilo. Then they have a mixed pack of steak and kidney at £7.50 per kilo . Very odd pricing....
Many moons ago two small girls decided they wanted to bake potatoes over an open fire. They each stole a potato from their respective homes and the taller one of the two girls stole a box of her dad's...
I have just received a message from Mrs. Owd that Owd passed away peacefully and, as Mrs Owd, described it, sleepily, this afternoon in his hospice, his family all around him. Mrs Owd asked me to...
"They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!"...
I recently asked if faith schools were divisive. On the news today the government were saying there's not enough PE in the schools and the BBC showed a sports hall .. There dominating a whole wall was...
I know very little about the Civil War but would I be right in thinking that it was basically the issue of slavery ? That is the South wanted to keep slavery and the more educated North wanted to...
With all the news recently about foxes coming into peoples houses, and only yesterday a few miles from me a fox attacked a 4 week old baby in their house and bit the baby's finger off - well my son...
When an object with an elliptical orbit is at its nearest to the Sun it must be experiencing a certain force of gravity. As it moves away from the Sun it must reach a point when the gravity that once...
What do you do when someone names a baby what you consider to be a very odd choice. Obviously you don't want to upset them, but will have to make some sort of comment eventually.