I love my old (immaculate) Honda 1997 CRV. I've just had it serviced by Honda and they say it needs a new steering assembly ("Lenkgetriebe komplet") however, there feels nothing untoward in the...
He has an aol.com address, we have both checked that I am addressing them correctly but they keep coming back undelivered, even when I use 'reply' - though the odd one does get through . I do not have...
The correct approach, I have learnt from a Russian; (Zinovy Zinik) " The ritual of consuming vodka is a special kind of yoga with its own system of breathing, you breathe deeply, gulp down an entire...
Given the instability and volatility of the world, wouldn't the removal of Britain's nuclear weapons, as advocated by the SNP, be an act of irresponsible, crass stupidity?
Is mankind's living in peace an unrealistic goal, or do you think that (almost wholly male) aggression is a key factor in the Darwinian development of the species?
I was once told that magnolias (or was it rhododendrons?) come into bloom all over the world at the same time, they are just coming out over the last 2 days here in south Germany. Is it true, and are...
There are strong plastic bags used in the garment industry, the ones I have seen in the past were made from a black vinyl type material, they are long enough to put inside a ladies dress or a man's...
'Meliorism'; the belief that the moral and material condition of humanity will improve over time, is this viewpoint in consideration of the events of the 20 and 21st centuries looking a bit dodgy?...
Recently diagnosed of having the beginnings of arthritis in one ankle and pains in various other joints I've been looking at and trying barefoot and other forms of grounding. Early days, but I feel...
I'm reminded that on this day 323 years back the Salem Witch Trials commenced, resulting in 19 people hanged and one 'pressed to death' ! A century prior to that we were busy beheading and merrily...
How much information on a defendant's profile is available to a judge before proceedings commence? I ask because I remember a retired judge saying that that though Jewish people enjoy a drink as much...
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) asks how can we know anything about God. He considers whether God may be named by us at all, whether we say things about God properly or only metaphorically, whether our...
My golf-club sends me an emailed newsletter every month (in German) and I decided to put into GoogleTranslate to see what they made of it. I enclose one section; boar fences Then again amplified...
As it happens to be my birthday, I have received a couple of these, - very nice, but what I don't understand is that a great deal of work goes into this site (Jaqui Lawson) doing all this animation...
"Sorry,(sic) this school is too white." - that's the headline in a German paper, it relates to Ofsted's downgrading of a primary school in Lincolnshire on the grounds that there are too many white...
Mine is;
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
But just try telling my wife that!...