My annual income makes me a high rate (UK) tax payer with a marginal rate of 40%. However I am paying over 50% of my income into a pension fund and as these payments are out of pre-taxed income, I am...
Stuck on a couple - 37d should be Rodgers but I have Aurar for 47a and 45a Yellow pigment used by alchemists, also called bronze powder. -O-A-G/-O-- Thanks
A milkman was doing his round one Friday, which was the day that he knocked on doors to collect money. He knocked at the door of one house which was opened by a woman in a scanty negligee. "That'll be...
Just bought a hand of pork from the butchers - does anyone have any suggestions for an imaginative way to cook it for Sunday lunch please? Or should I just roast it?
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Oh dear - I have inspired the wrath of she who must be obeyed. I forgot to list the 4 answers that marry up to tomorrow's DT GK crossword before I posted the completed crossword. Can anyone help...
8d Tall plants will not grow beyond it (4,4) - all I can come up with is "tree line", but why? 19d Refer to short publicity announcement (6) - why would this be advert? Refer to? Thanks
A woman goes into Harrods to buy a rod and reel for her grandson's birthday. She doesn't know which one to get, so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter. The Harrods salesman is standing...
There are various junctions on the motorway network which display signing on the exit slip eg. "use both lanes for Oxford" or wherever. Use both lanes? Surely that means straddling the white line...
Does anyone remember Maconochie's Panyan Pickle? This was the pickle of my childhood with a great flavour and texture. I haven't seen it for years and have no idea who now owns the brand - but to find...
