The disease seems to have originated in the Far East and to have made its way west along the trade routes. It seems to have arrived in the Mediterranean and from there to have spread throughout the rest of Europe. In time it is said it killed half the population. At first explanations tended to rest

numpty; noun; nump - tee; a person who has done a foolish or silly thing, a moron, an idiot So I was leaving the house, ready to get in the car with my case of poker chips in hand. I was driving because we were playing poker after work and there’s no sense cycling an hour

Finally there is a ubuntu package for numpty physics. Great work Andreas.

Well, a lady must shop! It’s simply a woman’s prerogative! In all truth I find shopping very difficult so break up the event into several smaller events, which is why it seems I am forever shopping. It costs a fortune in taxi fares, but needs must. Today I returned my beloved laptop to the shop where

Numpty (http://numpty.etsy.com) is another UK seller who likes to recycle, and I have made some lego brick-esque resin earrings in her style (available here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14435512 ). Her work is bright and brash and proud, “Numptilicious Numptyland” is definitely somewhere I’d like to be, and there’s something to suit everyone (even boys!) including numpties If you have

  The other morning I came downstairs to find Sonny sitting on the sofa with a stone the size of a large avocado tucked under his bottom.    “Er…Sonny…why are you sitting on a stone?”  I enquired, as any normal mother would.   “It’s not a stone,” he sighed, lifting his left butt cheek to give me a better look.  “It’s a

By Michael MacLeod A LOCAL lingo guide to help Brits understand Scottish slang has been launched. Surprising new research found Scots phrases and sayings are like a foreign language to the majority of Brits. Sayings like ‘bairn,’ ‘blootered,’ and ‘numpty’ leave most outsiders baffled, with more people understanding French and German than Scottish expressions. Worried that local phrases are