Recent content by Marianna

It depends on the humidity.

Stay away from my territory! The New York State Department of Health issued a warning this morning about extreme heat. I've stayed inside with the air handler fans running continuously and with the A/C set at 77 F. Probably used all of the electricity generated by my solar panels, and hoping...

Had the plastic wrap been added along way due to damage to the original packaging? Or were the original labels on the outside of the plastic, indicating that the package left the warehouse like that? I use housecleaning products designed to be reconstituted just before use, so they come in...

I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer Still Open ... . Leroy's character is much more age-appropriate for a young man than Granville's was at the same age. The whole thing is believable. The first series was just silly.

Are you planning to bring a suitably expensive castle-warming gift?

Sting - 73 years old and still singing, despite all the abuse his voice must have suffered from performing rock music. In 2009, he released the album, If On a Winter's Night. Quieter music with lute accompaniment, among other instruments. You could hear the damage, but the underlying vocal...

Has anyone visited here? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ and gone on an underground tour? I've never taken a tour down a coal mine, although I have been down a salt mine, the Salzbergwerk just outside Berchtesgaden. Bought a small container of salt and brought it home for my sister. The idea of an...

Conwy! I took the guided tour of the castle one of the several times I visited the town. This was back when HF Holidays still had a country house hotel there. HF eventually sold that hotel because most of their clients are walkers, and it took too long to travel to and from Snowdonia each day.

I love the sound of the bells. One of the many times that I stayed in Huddersfield, I was crossing a street just below the parish church when a bell rehearsal began. Fortunately, I had reached the pedestrian island, as the sound stopped me in my tracks.

The Newcastle City Guide's walks sound wonderful!

Thanks, @captain clutterbuck. I had read the report in my BBC news feed, but couldn't remember the details. If I ever redevelop enough strength to travel, I'll need to add Newcastle upon Tyne to my itinerary. I sounds like an interesting city. Usually I and one of my friends, traveling...

Even street paving had to be "corrected" by rolling out a cobblestone effect over the blacktop and scattering some manure-effect over it. I read somewhere that the folks in charge of dressing the locations had warned everyone that they could think of about the changes, but they forgot about the...

Just bite the bullet and have it done! Seriously, there's nothing to it, aside from the eyedrops routine post-op, and that's not forever. I had both eyes done about a year ago, and got new glasses with the first pair of thin lenses since I had to start wearing coke bottle bottoms when I was...

@RickAns I seem to recall that Roy Clarke would have liked to continue the series, but the period settings and costumes made it too expensive.

Where is it in England that, I believe, recent digging up for street repairs uncovered the remains of an historically significant building?