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If I'm at home I drink freshly ground filter coffee . When travelling one cup sachets suffice. It's no big deal they last forever and I can put up with an inferior coffee from time to time. I pick up a pack or two when in France where there is a wide choice. I drank one yesterday with a best...

Coprolite?

That's chutzpah isn't it? The best example I knew up till now is the defendant on trial for murdering his parents throwing himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.

Felicity Kendall has changed a bit.

I've been wrestling with this problem all my life and haven't solved it yet. I'm 84.

Neighbours on both sides have planted new trees. Neither are as old as us but none of us will get to see those trees mature. Across from us is the Millennium Wood where we enjoy young trees planted not long before we moved here. Gives a nice sense of continuity.

The right ingredient for the job when at home. When travelling, however, I keep things simple by using olive oil. It can be used to fry, enhance pasta, to dress salad, or tomatoes. It's good on bread. It also has medicinal applications and I can lubricate my SAK and other kit with moving parts.

Polish

A citron pressé is a French car being tailgaited.

The only thing my wife doesn't know is why she married me.

Better than getting frozen fish from Sainsbury's like I did yesterday.

Haven't been to Scandinavia for many years.What ferry route(s) did you take?

I may be wrong but I don't think reactions were counted in the early years. Therefore, long term members' post/réaction ratios cannot be compared with those of newer members. For what it's worth, since joining in 2005, my 3490 posts provoked 2349 reactions or about 67%

Any help?

I have something like you describe and use it in the for the conditions you describe. I bought it in France where such tools are common in country hardware shops. I guess this is not much help but I make the suggestion just on the off-chance you may be passing through France sometime.

Our local red kite was circling over me just now as I was bringing the bins in. It's probably clocked my age and marked me down as a potential meal. Hope the jackdaws and rooks in the trees opposite keep up their usual mobbing.

When I was a child the only portable pens were fountain pens. I remember seeing a ballpoint for the first time in about 1950 but they were not in general use. Policemen used indelible pencils with their note books as they could not be erased and altered. I wonder if indelible pencils are still...

My pen writes underwater, upsidedown and a lot of other words too.

Meadow: View from my garden today.

This is the one that is always in my pocket and so gets used most in the real world.