I agree with you Netta,were going backwards with Dames and knights, and sadder that a republican accepts it , nothing changes, they are all out for themselves pings me off.. Problem for Quentin might have been that to refuse the "honour" whilst she was still GG would be to interfere in po...

"Diversion" - The Chinese have over produced, steel etc. The Australian economy will suffer as less iron and coal will be required. They have recently discovered huge deposits of oil in central Australia and off the coast of South Australia, which also has a host of other useful minerals ...

I am convinced Tiny Abbott and his gang are not playing with a full deck. But silly things like this obscure the fact that they are conducting things in Parliament undemocratically with most debate gagged, refusal to answer questions and what appears to be the most blatantly biased speaker since Oli...

Prices here are about the same for diesel and petrol, about 3:70 -80 per gallon..I'm too tired to work out the per litre rate! I think it's probably a bargain but drivers here complain. Think diesel used to be higher than petrol. It works out to a whole 60 pence a litre roughly. Wow - no wonder the...

Makes you want to immigrate to the USA! Naw even with that incentive too many other negatives! :roll: BTW Diesel is dearer than petrol here in Oz. What you gain is in economy usually. On the negative side we are all being kept in the dark on the toxic effects of carcinogenic diesel fumes, which don'...

usually a shift should have been used - the absence might have been felt to be uncharitable. Wee Ali

5eulbdog7 wrote:I imagine that might involve a milk bottle.

Spot on!

Carnival of course comes from the Latin for meat carni and Levare to lift - meaning to take away. So since eating meat was forbidden for the entire period of Lent a big feast was held to gorge yourself with meat before you had to go without. The Roman State religion was very pragmatic and religious ...

Well some initiations could be worse than that. Aircraft factory my brother was apprenticed to near Glasgow just before we left, had some strange practices involving young men, all initiated by groups of women off the factory floor. Can't go into it here. Wee Ali

Thinking! I fancy a pancake. Told the girls to take a few dollars with them on their morning walk, as they might want to donate to the charity that cooks up pancakes today in the main street - it's Shrove Tuesday. Tips for making pancakes :puter That explains it - the heiress got me to buy some cre...

I am glad there has been no mention of the most common count when I was a kid involving toes on heavily suntanned people. Wee Ali

SWMBO spends three days packing enough fur twa weeks fur a weekend, changes her mind three or four times in the process, and then ends up wearing the same claes fur twa days at a time!