Here are another couple of items which were on my to-blog list, which popped up in today's Metro:
So Scotland might not be able to join the EU if it becomes and independent country? That sounds like a big incentive for the Scots to vote for independence from Britain.
Keith, Warwickshire.
There is of course no such country or even place as "Britain", but the point stands.
Chopping onions doesn't seem to make you cry any more. Try it.
Paul, Surrey.
Now this I definitely have noticed, very gradually over the past twenty years or so. I wondered whether it was just me, or building up a resistance with age, but clearly it isn't.
Did they go to the trouble of breeding "non-lachrymal onions"? Quite possibly they did, but why didn't they boast about it?
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