Ok..... must be nearly there ..... 27 mentions as compared with 3 mentions (It made all the main news)
The third party ........The Lib dems. The Ed.......Ed Davey At his part speech he mentioned the idiotic Tories 27 times and Labour only 3 times ? As Oscar Wilde said there's only one thing worse than being talked about.......
Oh, I like that! Didn’t know that. Who, almost furtively, wishes whom ‘Good night!’ in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, and why?
Irene Adler? Wishing Sherlock Holmes goodnight after agreeing with him to see the King of Bohemia the next morning - but knowing that she was leaving the country before then.
That's pretty much it. She had outwitted Holmes (which he admired - thereafter always referring to her as 'the woman') and her bidding him goodnight was to prove her outwitting. Over to you.
Rubber is naturally white and tyres were that colour until 1912 when Michelin started blending carbon chemicals into them which turned them black ?
Not Helen Forrester BB. She came originally from the Wirral and grew up in poverty in Liverpool (the fee for the daily ferry was beyond their means). The writer I am thinking of could definitely afford the ferry and used it daily to cross from Rock Ferry to Liverpool for a period of his life. Also much earlier. He held a very important job in Liverpool though it was not his homeland.
Few clues needed I think. Not a scouser He was actually born in a town which had a bad reputation for one historical event. Lived for a time in Rock Ferry and took the ferry to Liverpool daily for a very important job. A
