If you want a change from rice, potatoes or pasta don't forget couscous. I made the following tonight; http://www.bbcgoodfoo...sa-stew-with-couscous Simple, quick, and it was very well received. It...
Can anyone recommend a way to watch television on a pc, ideally for free. I am outside of the UK. I tried to install one programme and Microsoft went ape with warnings against it! Thanks.
Most of the press seems to be keeping stumm, but something big is happening here I think. Any comments?
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Does anyone know what the active ingredient is in proprietary cleaners for wood-burning-stove glass-doors? Ordinary window cleaner sprays are not enough to shift the film on the inside of the glass,...
On Thursday night's 'Newsweek' Michael Portillo announced that he had just voted in the Spanish elections, "as a holder of Spanish passport". Unless this a new arrangement, how could he have...
Byron's recipe for dealing with a hangover begins, 'Ring for your valet, bid him quickly bring some hock and soda water'. Can anyone improve on this ? - my valet seems to have disappeared this...
On December 31st 2006, the UK paid the final instalment of £45.5 million to the USA, thus discharging the last of its Word War II loans, some 50 years after contracting them. Why should the...
I am doing an on line interactive language course, and having slightly impaired hearing, find some voices unclear. My headphones have an in-line volume control but I would like to adjust the tone...
Sometimes in the mornings when setting my DVD player to record a later programme I witness children's programmes put out on C.Beebies, which seem to me to be manic and absolutely appalling; the...
I'm puzzled by the fact that at a cost of billions and so many people having made a lucrative career out of this, that it would be exciting if it didn't exist! 'If they do discover the Higgs, it would...
By which I mean, the importance of manners, being kind to others and animals, having self-respect and decorum, benevolence etc. .... well, you know what I mean. All emphasis now seems to be on 'being...
I'm having a few friends around to have a drink this evening in the garden, but there are a lot of wasps which seem to like the spot too. They are attracted by fallen apples and I have collected, and...