So, I was watching a movie that had subtitles the other day and it got me thinking about accents. For instance, in Spain, do they hav...

I know there are a lot of things going on in the world that we should be thinking about   - terrorism, natural disasters, hunger, war, ...

Seriously, California ... ?? I just read that, in September 2016, the Governor of California signed a bill regulating greenhouse gas emiss...

I hate reading this kind of news - I believe that any society needs a healthy combination of history and tradition, mixed with the new...

Image : Lucy Kells, Vale Wildlife Rescue Who can resist a curry?  Seems that a hungry seagull couldn't, and fell into a vat of...

So ... I haven't posted anything here for about two years.  I can't even remember why I stopped.  Probably I figured that no-one was...

I love this story!  Over 100 volunteers in a small town decided to knit all the buildings and landmarks of the city of Bristol in Eng...

People's depravity never ceases to amaze me.  You hear of some terrible act of violence or senseless destruction and just when you think...

So I was rummaging through my handbag, discovering lost change and an errant almond, and sorting through the various receipts that end up in...

They say that Summer's coming ... though it's still raining here, and it's colder today, so I'm back in my polar fleece.  I ...

It's a verb, a noun, a ship, a space shuttle, a detective ... a beautiful word.  The synonyms are strive, seek, attempt, undertake, aspi...