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Dennis the Menace: Happy 70th Birthday Dennis! 17 Mar 202117 March 2021 Last updated at 06:38 A Beano Studios Product © DC Thomson 2021 Hes always been a ten-year-old school boy but its clear to see how Dennis has changed over his 70 years! This special illustration was drawn by long time Beano artist Nigel Parkinson Everyones favourite rebel in red and black stripes is 70 years old! Dennis (formally known as Dennis the Menace) celebrates 70 years since his first appearance in the popular c...

WARDS WORLD: Celebrating World Book day  | Updated: 07:42, 07 March 2021 Every so often we celebrate such events as World Potholing Day or World Litter Picking Day, perhaps World Pineapple Carving Day and so on. Today, Thursday, March 4th, has been designated World Book Day and something I can honestly say I support but to be fair I ‘celebrate’ book day every day as I read whatever comes to hand as being something of a ‘bookworm’. Books were part of my early life – I ...

John Mayall and John Mayall and (from left) his tree house, Lead Belly and a copy of Weird Tales. Composite: Getty/Alamy As a huge box set of his work is released, the 87-year-old British bluesman reminisces about the thrill of discovering boogie-woogie piano and buying his first six-string in Japan Fri 29 Jan 2021 04.00 EST My tree house I lived in Acre Lane in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, and became a teenager on 29 November 1946. My parents had divorced and I lived with my mother and...

Californian a person; the adjective is California, which is why Brian Wilson did not write a song called Californian Girls; the same rule applies to other US states, so a “Texan drilling for Texas tea” is an oilman call girl like “vice girl”, an old-fashioned term encountered only in the tabloids, where it is always the 1950s callous callus (plural calluses) noun, meaning hard area of skin. The correct word to use to mean “covered in calluses” is in fact calloused, from the medical ...