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The water content of sterilised milk shouldn't be any different than that of pasteurised milk. The main difference is that sterilised milk is heated for longer and the milk sugars are partially caramelised. Sterilised milk was an early form of homogenised milk, i.e. no cream layer on top...

First year pupils were all one house, second year through fourth were pairs of houses, fifth form could be any house and sometimes from a different year, all of which makes memories harder. December 1965 magazine has 6 Maths exam results for Batts, Cadwaladr, Edgar, Finch, Gould, Harvey...

6 Maths circa. 1965/66? Back Row: ?, Seddon, ?, ?, ?, Smith, ?, ?, Finch, ? Middle Row: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Maturi (of Hardware fame), ?, Shaw, Parkins. Front Row: Batts, ?, ?, ?, ?, Whitehouse, Hutton, ?, ?, ?, Jeromes. Seven prefects in all?

If only the whole cast had tried to rescue Grace... There should be a rule that ALL serials should only run for a maximum of five years. My dad was a great Archers fan and my aunt had a point when she once said to him, "You do have a REAL family you know!".

One of the best hackers of old tech ** on the internet, Fran Blanche of Fran Labs, pretty much says here what I think about Windows 10! Not only do you have to hunt to find stuff the view can change from day to day depending on what Microsoft thinks you need to know. ** Not many people have...

That was rather my point! You will see at once that 20 columns won't work on A4 portrait and is pushing the limits on A4 landscape so from a presentational point of view something else is needed. A spreadsheet will fool you into thinking that you will get away with just a few more columns until...

Dan Bricklin, originator of VisiCalc, explains how it came about here. The computer spreadsheet was a great invention but I am not sure it was good for mathematics. (I solved a good few problems by using an incremental approach with a spreadsheet rather work out the appropiate function). Another...

Pedant's Corner: Post Office Telecommunications from 1969! I recall staff striking out the 'G' from printed letterheads, what a mess, but I guess they were saving the public purse from buying more paper? I have vague memories of something like PERT being used on a London-based computer for...

In my experience 'neglect' any land for a few months and tree seedlings will begin to grow. Leave it for a few years and buildings will be crushed, pavements and roads broken up and grass shaded out. That's what trees do. On the other hand, plant saplings and they will die of dehydration and...

I think one can find many examples of sympathetic design in the UK but that must be because the client required it or the architect offered it and was accepted. In Yardley the building to the right of Digbeth-in-the-fields church has echoes of the church in its roof capping while being not...

Well Prince Charles was right! "The steam loco Prince Charles arrived at the Dudley Zoo Miniature Railway in 1954 It was based on the LMS Class 5 design and probably built by G& S Light Engines of Stourbridge in 1949. it ran until 1957, before a period of storage until 1960 when it was loaned...

As a child I remember the isolated wooden steps for getting on the backs of animals, (elephants?), I never saw them being used. I loved the four different coloured 'engines' that did a little circular dance and had a hand-operated bell. If we were very lucky we got a ride on the miniature...

In 1953 my mum went to a shop at the roundabout joining Hobbs Moat Road to Lode Lane. Hidden behind the brick facade it was clear that it had been made of curved sheets of corrugated iron. Here she bought a roll of fabric printed with small versions of the national flag and many yards of white...

Just checking my Living DNA profile I see that I have, as part of the package, Autosomal, MT DNA, Y DNA, Family Matching and Wellbeing Taster. As paid for extras I am offered Wellbeing, Viking and Vitamin Subscription. Apart from an alerting email when these extra services were added I can't say...

Don't forget that it was the LDS that first made available the 1881 Census for England, Wales and Scotland. Although the LDS is primarily based in the USA their doctrine encourages ancestral research and for many Americans that means looking to the UK. Pre-computer that meant going through UK...

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I don't understand where 'evil' comes into the equation. However it might well be upsetting to find that one's family tree isn't that of the family that one has been brought up with. (That is reportedly one of the reasons why DNA testing is banned in France). On the other hand DNA testing...

Tried LivingDNA, the process is simple enough. At the moment it is just giving me a hint about where my people came from and has proved that I am related to my aunt! So far no close unknown relatives showing up, just 4th cousins. (I wish some people had selected better user names, a potential...

I can't see it either. Suggest RRJ ties FreeBMD first and, if that fails, one of the 'subscribed to' providers.

A neighbour recently placed a nesting box by his back garden gate. Suprisingly to me, as the box faces south, birds have moved in. This morning some crows were causing a commotion and I looked out of my window to see a siamese-like cat on the gate lintel above the box. The crows chased off the...