I just watched this classic episode from the best Maigret – Rupert Davies. I always watch the credits on these old programmes. I didn't see a credit for the actor who played the madman, Rivaud's...
According to celebsfitnes.com/nina-hossain/ she is 5ft 2" tall and according to marriedbiography.com/james-mates-biography/ James Mates is 5ft 10". Yet there appeared to be over a foot difference in...
I heard many years ago that somebody once said that the main or only benefit of a public school education was that you would be able to spell 'separate' correctly when you left. I thought that it was...
The professor and his mother (played by Alan Davies and Sian Phillips) were referred to throughout as 'Gillan', yet the subtitles and the end credits gave their name as 'Gillian'. This website...
I watched the programme a couple of days ago, but it was probably one I'd recorded within the last week or so. It was fiction, i.e. not a documentary. Two people were in a church and they were looking...
When I saw Camille Coduri in Big Boys, I thought it was another actress whose name escapes me. To save me hours of agony, please tell me the name of the actress who looks just like her.
What breed is the Siddiquis' cat, Rocky? If it's not a special breed, how is its colour described?
It belongs to Sid, I think. Is 'Sid' his real name, or a nickname derived from Siddiqui?...
I recently saw a field planted with potatoes. The field was beautifully carved into parallel ridges with furrows in between. I've looked with Google to find out why this is done. The answer seems to...
In last Saturday's Daily Mail (16/04) there was a Magic Eye puzzle. I was able to see three images of what looked like an egg with feet turning a somersault. What I didn't get was the clue, which was...
There are at least two TV programmes ( This Morning - Lynsey Crombie "Queen of Clean" and Filthy House SOS) where they recommend sodium bicarbonate and lemon juice or vinegar as home-made cleaners....
It may be a coincidence, but our electrician did something a couple of days ago that cut the power to my PC (Windows 7 home premium)-- twice. Since then, or approximately since then, my screen has not...
We've all heard of a hand-brake turn, but what do they do in America? Can a turn be done with a parking-brake, which is foot-operated? I've never heard of a "parking-brake turn"....
I've had a Stocks and Shares ISA for several years, and I have found a site that tells me what inflation has done since then, but I can't find a site that tells me what £1000 invested in a cash ISA in...
We are getting poor TV reception right now. It's a lovely day, blue sky no wind. According to worldweatheronline the pressure now is over 1020, which is considered high. But why is TV reception...
I've seen the trailer for "No Return" endless times. Sheridan Smith says to somebody, "You tell the truth and you tell it hard." What does that mean? I've never heard that expression -- tell it (the...
This looks like a good job. I read that Yarit Dor is "IDC certified". That sounds good -- a qualification for enabling people who don't know each other appear to be intimate. IDC stands for Intimacy...
One of the discs chosen by Nick Webborn to take to his desert island was "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry and the Pacemakers. I didn't recognise it as the hit I remembered. I checked the BBC website...
Many years ago I was waiting for a ferry at Dover and I wrote down a column of letters I saw on the harbour wall: A N Y T H O E K B L R V D I. If there were any more letters, they were beneath the...
I'd rather "shave a Rottweiler's writh" . The spelling is as it was given in the subtitles. What's a 'writh' (or 'rith'). Any expert of Yorkshire dialect, please?...