And it’s that sort of thinking that put the great in great Britain.
We are indeed. History is repeating itself, as it always does. Trump will get the US, Canada, South America and Greenland, Putin will get the old...
Never say never. Who would have believed in their wildest nightmares that the people of America would vote Trump back for a second term? Soon to...
Waitrose are useless for online home deliveries here. The trouble is, unlike other grocery supermarkets that do online orders, they fill your...
I have never subscribed to Facebook or Instagram, or any other one of these ghastly gossip columns. But I am horrified to think what information...
The deliberate invention of fictitious people of a certain type by a huge international corporation that gathers data on people. I put your...
What sort of a world are we living in? I know very very little about AI, but my eye fell on this article and I was horrified....
I’ve had a Nationwide account for almost fifty years and am very un-computer-friendly. They still send me statements by post and have learned not...
My name would get you a lot of points in Scrabble. :)
The tidemark is where all the useless rubbish washes up.
I suppose perhaps some people end up living in a foreign country having to negotiate a way through life using a language that they don’t...
Kekius Maximus???? A character from The Life of Brian?
No, even in the 1960s Freddie Frinton’s style was a bit old fashioned. But his life story, and how he got to be famous given his start in life, is...
The story of how Dinner for One reached the German shores is an interesting one…BBC World Service - Witness History, Dinner for One: How an...
Funny old things, words.Two parrots are sitting on a perch. One says to the other “Can you smell fish?”
Regarding the letter h, I always understood the “haitch” pronunciation to be used by people with Irish ancestry. And here is a little bit of...
As a bit of a non sequitur, did anybody listen to this programme on Radio 4 last night?BBC Radio 4 - Limelight, Exemplar - Series 1, Exemplar -...
Make sure you have plenty of loo paper handy.:biggrin:
:biggrin: For the non Yorkshire forumites, The Barnsley name for a Sheffielder is a “Dee dah”. Because long ago they didn’t say “thee” and “tha”...
I don’t know Welsh at all, but I can imagine that a country with a lot of hills and valleys has a native language, Welsh, that varies tremendously...
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