John Sandford's "Prey" series of books has been recommended to me. There's quite a lot of them - should I read them in order, starting with "Rules of Prey"?...
For some time now I haven’t been able to view any photos. If I click on an album I see the thumbnail views, but when I click on an individual photo to enlarge it, all I get is a blacked-out...
Fred says to Bert: "See Tom, Dick and Harry there, they all live in Myrtlebank Crescent, just as we do. The numbers of their houses add up to twice the number of your house, and multiplied together...
Is there any way of printing the mathematical symbols for "therefore" and "because"? I've had a look at the character map, and can't find anything there.
Some years ago brian dennehy starred in a film that was based on a true story. He played the part of a villainous character who, with his family, terrorized a small U.S. town. In the end, some of the...
I have recently begun using Picasa 2, but I've run into difficulty (most likely because of my own lack of computer know-how). I want to make a gift CD comprising the contents of several folders. The...
Yesterday I watched this jazz documentary again, and I cannot identify the tune that is played as the credits are scrolled up at the end of the film. It's very familiar, I know that I know it, but the...
A flea went into a travel agent's and asked about a week's holiday in the sunshine. "I've got just the thing for you" said the agent. "A week in Nice, in Ringo Starr's hair". "That sounds good" said...
My daughter is bothered by her neighbours' dog. It is a greyhound, and is fine until it is left alone. Since her neighbours both work, this is every week day. As soon as it is alone, it begins to...
My profile tells me that one of my answers has been removed, but I've no idea which one, or why. How can I find out? Emails to the editor produce no response.
Why do so many people in Britain dislike Americans so much? I have worked with them, mixed socially with them, visited them in their homes, and always I have found them very much the same as us. They...
In the 1930s, twice a week a Frenchman crossed the frontier into Germany on his bicycle carrying nothing but a suitcase filled with sand. The German customs officers, sure that he was smuggling...
I do love a good thriller. Something like, for instance, Frederick Forsyth's "The Day of the Jackal", or the Jack Reacher novels of Lee Child. I like plenty of action, without any sidetracking of the...
Terrible news!! Humphrey Lyttelton's "Best of Jazz" is ending in early April, after nearly 40 years of weekly transmission. Humphrey is undoubtedly God's jazz gift to Britain, his jazz knowledge is...
