MADE IN CHINA. Do these words signal the end of European manufacturing capability, or are we better off resourcing items which can be mass produced, in the Far East, and concentrating ourselves on high-technology and high-quality items here?
Here every item that is sold comes from China. Their clothes are cheap and of good quality.
Quality ladies underwear does not come cheap. I know that for a fact.
Fact is stranger than fiction. To thriller writers, the radiation killing of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko is a classic case of fact being stranger than fiction, people just cannot believe this really happened.
Happened along a leafy Devon lane yesterday, and saw plenty of primroses in the hedges. Apparently we are prevented from picking nature's bounty by law, which leads me to wish to see a documentary coming up about how our freedoms have been eroded.
Eroded battery connections can often lead to disappointment. Constant use prevents erosion but if that is not possible I'm told that abrading the terminals with emery paper is the best thing to correct it.
It's a long road that has no turning, as the old saying goes. So keep right on to the end of the road; if the road be long, let your heart be strong, and keep right on round the bend.
"Bend! you little bugger", he said. "Let yourself go".
Go and take a jump, he said. So I did and finished up the creek.
Creek, stream, river- all names for bodies of water which cut channels into the earth, encouraging flow and movement toward a final and common destination.
Destination Oman. I'm hoping to make a trip there later this year and wonder if anyone has any travel advice.
Advice from someone who has already travelled there would be extremely useful, I agree. That would be one of the Gulf States, would it not? I think the Gurkhas do a policing job for the army there, but I may be wrong: fine body of men, the Gurkhas.
Gurkhas are among the finest fighting men ever. They should never, as happened when I was a child, be confused with small pickled green cucumbers.
Cucumbers are better than men and are easyeasy to pick up. You can fondle cucumbers in the supermarket... and you know how firm it is
before you take one home
Home is where the heart is, as well as the perfect place in which to enjoy a cucumber, perhaps at lunchtime in a sandwich or salad, along with other fresh, crunchy, firm vegetables.
Home is where Dutchy is, and that is just as well, as he's been on the booze all night and has a befuddled and louche air. Another person with an air of loucheness in my opinion is Michael Douglas.
Vegetables come in all shapes and sizes and with much variation in colour and taste. Sophie Grigson had a TV series called Eat Your Greens which was a delight to watch especially the one in which she did pumpkins.
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr was supposed to be a ladies man but I don't believe it. He was too small and hadn't taken Ms Grigson's advice to eat more pumpkins.
Pumpkins seem to be equated with legend, in that they can be turned into carriages. Something to do with the shape.
shape the pumpkin into a shiny carriage , if you like . i prefer a shiny new rolls-royce .
Rolls Royce are probably better known for aeroplane engines than cars nowadays. Everyone seems to have a Lexus.
