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Were there tea bags during the war? I don't remember them. To people of my parents ' generation, tea bags were a newfangled idea imported from America where noone knew how to make tea anyway. Tea bags according to the war time generation we're invented to use up the sweepings from the floor of...

Erasmus programme to be reinstated.

Fewer than those who have not had a heart attack because they still do bushcraft or hillwalking.

Scientists are still searching for intelligent life on Earth.

I think I must have nodded off and reawakened on the 1st April.

Plenty round Dunstable.

Ditto this. My great-uncle was a shell back (a sailor who had been round Cape Horn under sail). He was as tough as nails and maintained that a real man should be able to make and mend his own kit. He knitted his own sweaters while at sea. "No shops in the ocean", he would say. He was also a dab...

Best wishes for a long future.

We're sad about our heron eaten goldfish. We only had them because they were there when we moved in 16 years ago . However, we'd found them interesting to watch and had become quite fond of them. Now, perhaps frogs and newts may have a chance with fish no longer eating their spawn every year...

Young heron perched on my roof. Later discovered missing goldfish from the garden pond.

I suppose artificial stupidity is the handmaiden to artificial intelligence .

Want to swap ages?

Apparently I'm now Griffo32.

Tempt

I moved from Cambridgeshire to Oxfordshire ten years ago.

Sugar

I still keep matches in the house, my pack and the van but I very seldom use them. It occurs to me that as matches superseded flint and steel, matches have been superseded by reliable lighters. I don't smoke and have piezoelectric ignition in the van but I always have a minibic lighter in my...

I still keep matches in the house, my pack and the van but I very seldom use them. It occurs to me that as matches superseded flint and steel, matches have been superseded by reliable lighters. I don't smoke and have piezoelectric ignition in the van but I always have a minibic lighter in my...

Circle

We know when we're outclassed! Seriously, since the subject was announced, I've not seen a single slug or snail in my garden. Much more effective than beer traps or pellets.