Category: General

Today’s crossword, 4 down, the clue is “Check about special synthetic substance”. The answer is clearly ‘Resin’, but resin is not synthetic, but a natural substance. Am I wrong, somewhere?

Just a few bits of background, as I said on Rick’s post, I have been reading these pages for a while, so get the impression you all ‘know’ each other fairly well, so seems only fair I say a bit.  Not that the bit will be interesting…

I am female, I live in Perth, Western Australia…I was one of the privileged that attended the whole 49 minutes of play on the fourth day of the Ashes match at the WACA the other week….At least that match had the right result..! Continue reading “Bit about me…”

The DVD is 2 hours of side-spltting1

Freddie again.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken

December 27th, 1942: Tocino born in Rochester Kent. 🙂

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Goodnight all, wrap up warmly.

Paul Torday’s “The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers”
-“hugely readable” – Sunday Times
– “for all its lightness of touch. Torday’s novel gives a strong impression of the callous indifference that moving around big sums of other people’s money tends to entail” – Times Literary Supplement. Continue reading “Book Choices – recommended reading”

In the lap of the gods – Freddie and his mates