This is not about the comic strip, sorry. It’s about a device in medieval castles that I have totally misunderstood. I know, why should I worry about not understanding a bit of architecture that was in use 1,000 years ago, well, because I’m a masochist – enough said. Anyway for years I always though that […]
My youngest is a “button pusher” in more ways then one. Now-a-days, he usually just pushes my buttons with arguments, as to why I should pay him more money for just “being.” When he was little, though, he had a penchant for pushing physical buttons – usually the wrong buttons – whenever he saw one.
Yesterday Feb 4, 2013, the Canadian government phased out the penny. I know other countries have done it and survived. Britain obviously, at one time, phased out the farthing and the half penny (pronounced hape-knee) before it went to an entirely new monetary system, which axed the threepenny (pronounced threp-knee), sixpence, half crown, crown and
I was often called upon to explain how the date of Easter is determined each year. It was sort of my party piece – OK I don’t lead a very exciting life. Now, however, with Google being the source of all information, at anytime, I am rarely asked to “recite.” Alas, I did enjoy the
I’m embarrassed to say that I use Go-Daddy to register domain names. I knew about their commercials before I went to their site and I thought that I really shouldn’t be supporting a company that so blatantly uses females for “fun and profit.” However, when I was searching around for an inexpensive site to park
Ok I want to know who compiles all this data. This is day 33 in the 2013 blog a day challenge and as I was looking for a blog topic, I thought why not write about the significance of the number 33. Why not indeed. Here is more information than you ever want to know
Tricoter is French for knitting – pronounced “tree-co-tay.” OK with my last post I am “out of the closet.” I knit. And for some reason yesterday was a very busy day for posts on FB related to knitting. Here’s what happened: 1. WWF – World Wildlife Fund has been promoting National Sweater Day – not
