I would like to ask matthewq to calm down a bit. There are always going to be opposing - and sometimes strongly held - views expressed in a section named 'controversial subjects' It is not right to liken people to Hitler by saying - I quote 'I

- infinite possibilities! Good stuff - keep us on our toes! All the best - Ursula

High Tea consists of a light meal taken about 6 - 6.30 in the evening. It usually consists of salad, sausages, ham, omelette, scones, cakes and of course, tea.

Jim, your comments raise a rather interesting question, one which I haven't been able to come up with an answer to. Deleting posts one by one can indeed be quite time consuming and awfully tedious. But even if you wanted to delete them en

Feel free to 'borrow' it - hope your grandson enjoys it!

Once upon a time there was a prince who went to a strange new country. As he was walking along he came upon a princess sitting on a stool in a little wooden shed. "What are you doing sitting there?" said the prince but the Princess did not

'General' as in General English, means any study of English which is not limited to a specialized subject such as business studies, medicine, travel etc although it can contain course content from all or any of these groups. Dictionary: 1 :

thanks - it was written in 1988 in response to my seven year old son's insistence that I tell him a scary story instead of the usual type of story I made up for him every night. I just started off with some likely beginning to the normal scary

Interesting - I had never thought of that. China is so big, one never thinks of it having any natural resource problem... How dependent we all are on each other! It would be a good idea for all countries to keep that in mind..

"The Darkness" A short story by Ursula West In the middle of the night, while everyone was asleep, lying quiet and still and silent; when all the country lay sleeping in their beds, quietly