Most of the toy cars I'd play with had chipped paint and scratches on them. That didn't happen when playing with them on a carpet, it happened when playing with them on the landing up our stairs. Through the banisters there was quite a long drop down to the linoleum passageway going along by our kitchen door. In my child's mind of course it wasn't a landing area at the top of a flight of stairs, i...
It began in childhood. The first time was to do with a small cardboard box. I'm not sure exactly what year that was, but it was Christmas. I'd guess it was around 1962, so quite a long time ago.
Aunt Doris - or 'Doll' as mum and dad would call her - I remember not understanding why they'd call her a doll, she didn't look anything like the dolls the girls along our street would play with. Anyway...
Britain breathed a big sigh of relief last week when hearing the news that we'd not be required to contribute to the next bailout pot of cash for Greece - Though we will still have to pour another £1billion or so down the Greek drain via the International Monetary Fund. Personally I'm not convinced we've been let off that lightly. And as the saying goes, 'The devil is in the details'.
EU presid...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the titles mean they now own the whole of Cambridgeshire, had their first 'royal row' on Saturday soon after taking to the air in one of The Queen's maroon Sikorsky helicopters.
The Duchess of Cambridge apparently reacted in an unladylike fashion when William revealed during the flight where they'd be spending their honeymoon - 'in the English county of Cam...
Why would a fish like ancestor of man, a fish man not yet with eyes or with any concept of what it would feel like to experience 'seeing', then set out on the journey of evolving eyes which would not until the passing of many millions of more generations, eventually, and through nothing other than mere trial and error, produce offspring with 'eyes that do see'?
If I desire something I don't p...
A man left home intending to post a letter on his way to a local pub where he'd often 'have lunch'. Having walked down the hill from where he lives for a hundred or so yards he noticed that another man, a complete stranger, was walking up the hill towards him from the opposite direction. When only a couple of yards separated them the man who'd been walking up the hill suddenly stopped, swore at hi...
What looks very much like depictions of UFO's have been found on ancient cave drawings at several locations around the world. They were not put there by anyone who'd just seen a science fiction film about aliens at their local cinemas!
That flying discs were darting around in the sky thousands of years ago ,and that they are still doing much the same thing today is use for great concern. What...
The practice of sticking one or two of them onto the eggs is not illegal but when the consumer realises it is done deliberately he or she will understandably feel they are the victim of a con.
I am referring to the occasional chicken feather you will no doubt have found stuck to one of the eggs contained in the free range boxes you've bought during the last year or so.
London's Hackney Marshes is basically a swampland. It always has been.
For many decades nothing was built on it other than the odd wooden changing room sheds for amateur league football players to get into their kit before playing their matches on the wide expanse of the marshes at weekends.
I grew up in Hackney myself. The goalposts during matches played on rain soaked days would sin...
A red eyed and tearful Chris Tarrant finally came out from his Ascot mansion this morning (Thursday) to face reporters waiting outside the large iron railings of his front gate eager to hear his reaction to the news that the TV quiz show he presents called 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' is likely to be axed due to a sharp drop in viewing figures.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting ou...