And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!

When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.

Richard Hakluyt in his catalogue of the cargo of the Madre de Dios, a typical carrack captured by the English in 1592, lists 'silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos, that is, counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silks, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, curled cypresse', […]

The adhesive and reactive nature of polydopamine thin films was exploited as a convenient platform or ‘primer’ onto which can be deposited additional secondary coatings via a variety of potential mechanisms, including covalent linkage with organic thiol, amine, and histidine residues [53 ].