The Catalans have a traditional pooping figurine in their nativity scenes. Each year they add topical international figures. Last year was Kate and Wills -...
There seem to be regular stories of people discovering lizards or insects in their pre-packed salads and tales of supermarket staff finding spiders and scorpions in their bananas. Have you, or any of...
What's your earliest memory, the first thing you can remember? My earliest memory is my brother undoing the catches on my pram so I fell out when my mam bumped the pram up the stairs. Ah, the smell of...
Clearing out the cupboard and found some of the big wee one's scraps. Angels, dancers, flowers and stuff. Must be from the eighties.
Do youngsters still collect scraps?...
Why are there so many trucks/lorries with red/green livery? I don't mean Eddie Stobbart. I mean the traditional local tipper, haulage and farm trucks. Many of them seem to have a dark red...
Any suggestions on how to get rid of earworms - those annoying snatches of songs you can't get out your head?
Currently suffering from an acute dose of Meet the Flintstones by the B52s....
Just watched BBC Four The Dark Ages: An Age of Light with the wonderful Waldemar Januszczak. He covered the development of early Christian art. He explained that the early images of jesus were of...
Saw about a dozen Waxwings ravaging the berry trees in Edinburgh today. There are reports of flocks of up to 60 wandering through the Lothians.
Gorgeous birds....
Alright, if we accept that ghosts are the spirits of the dead, why do they wear clothes? Surely clothes are inanimate objects? Do socks have souls? Do cardigans have chakras? Do jeans have jinns? Do...
Does liquid mercury occur naturally? Reason for asking is the story of the Chinese emperor, Qín Shǐ Huáng Dì, supposedly having in his tomb a river of flowing mercury on a model...