Does any one know how the Japanese pronounce Yamaha? I have always said 'yama-HA', but yesterday in a hI-fi shop in Stuttgart, the salesman said 'ya-MAha' which sounded rather authentic. In the...
I recorded James Ivory's 1985 'A Room with a View' this afternoon, and have just finished watching it. Simon Callow, as a clergyman, congratulates Helena Bonham Carter on her engagement. When I was...
http://www.npg.org.uk...p&firstRun=true&rNo=0 There is a painting in the NPG called 'Dinner at Haddo house', by Emslie 1884, featuring, amongst others W.Gladstone around a dining table. On the table...
I've been sent some pics as an email attachment using WinZip (?) When I try to open them I get the message; 'This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an...
I would like to replace out CRV with something a bit more economical. The CRV is liked by my wife because the seat is so high, making entry and exit easy. Does anyone know of anything else in the...
One evening last week on tv Jon Snow returned to Haiti for his first visit since the earthquake and was amazed that 'nothing has changed apart from the proliferation of plastic sheeting' under which...
Though I have seen U.K. motorway signs that read 'Exit 15, 2 1/3 miles' (which must cause puzzlement to foreign visitors), overall and since decimalization of the pound, we seem to abandon more and...
Is it possible to recharge ordinary batteries in a battery charger? What is the difference between an ordinary battery and a 'Reachargeable' one please?
I can recieve BBC radio on my tv set via satellite here in Germany. My tv is on the ground floor and I would like to listen to it in my studio which is on the first floor. What would be the simplest...
Just found a site I wanted to come back to so put it in favourites but failed to click on 'add', now I can't find it again. How do I see my own browsing history please?
One tee on my course is close to a road, nets are in place but would only stop severely shanked shots from going in the road direction. I recently hit a tree trunk very hard with my tee shot and the...
Flushed with success at my 1st attempts jam making (thanks to this site) with my mirabelles, I'm considering branching out into apricots . Can anyone recommend a good recipe please?
With space travel becoming more and more commonplace, might it be possible to fire waste nuclear material at the sun, which is radioactive (I believe) anyway?