We shall be put to bed by the cats at 9.30pm, as usual, and woken at 3.30am, as usual, with a feline breakfast for two order of mackerel in spring...
I just thought it might raise a smile. There’s so much misery in the news these days, I thought people might be drawn away from that for a few...
A cracking day out…The man who 'jumped' a double-decker bus over Tower Bridge's gap
Half a lifetime ago I learned spoken Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin has five “tones” and, depending on the tone used the meaning of a simple word like...
The best teacher I never met was Michel Thomas. We bought his Teach Yourself Portuguese tapes about thirty years ago when we were wondering if we...
I hope he makes it…T Cor Bor: Astronomers await dazzling celestial show
Dinner for One. A New Year’s Eve hit everywhere but in Blighty, it would seem…[MEDIA]
Ah, the bittererer the bettererer for me.:)
If anybody likes to make their own marmalade and, like me, often misses the narrow gap between “too early in the season” and “sold out”, I can...
Ah, it just says that Messrs Merriam and Webster began their enterprise as an American version of the English dictionaries that were available in...
I’ve never had anything to do with it, but could you maybe delete the account and start up a new one? Sorry if that is a stupid idea. :)
Merriam Webster, a short history thereof…[ATTACH]
Next time you spray one with fly spray or squash one against the window pane, remember this picture[ATTACH]
We recently started Homocide …I say @Victoria, steady on….:)
Or in modern parlance, GCAMPO.
I know. Just when we think we’ve put it all behind us. :biggrin:
A gill is an old name for a quarter of a pint. Not sure how a quarter of a pint converts into American cups. If you like, I’ll see if I can dig...
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Why should Cambridge have its own duchess anyway? Why can’t we have a Baroness of Buxton?
Not the “Eldritch” knot, I hope…….:oops:
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