I am worried.  I am concerned.  I have just sent a comment to a blog and it has disappeared.  How will I explain it away to a total stranger if they contact me and say, 'What the bejeesus does what you wrote have to do with me?'

The only thing i can say is that my Boy is back from South America after six months and the relief has caused a mental relapse in me.  That should swing it, shouldn't it?   

The trouble with travel is that some people are just never satisfied with the shade of the grass in their own backyard once they have seen the Inca Trail or cycled down Death Road in Bolivia or eaten guinea pig or seen the stars without light pollution . . . .

 Where was I?  Oh yes.  I happened upon a picture of a smiling German lad who had spent 6 and a half years building a life-sized model of some flashy Formula One racing car.  Out of matches, painstakingly all cut to precisely the same size.

The bit that concerned me was that it was constructed in his aunt's kitchen.  In the picture there was nothing but this car and a radiator.  How big is this kitchen?  Will the lad have to be content to sit in it just going 'Brooom-brooom'?

Why his aunt's kitchen? Where was she knocking up the saurkraut and pffernusse cookies?  I need to know as he didn't look under-nourished. 

it's Groundhog Day again and I really must wish one a all a good one.

What does  that dear little critter do for the rest of the year?

Well, here's a clever one!  It is a branch of Chemistry concerned with the fermentation processes in brewing.  It ties in with 'y is for yeast' in a very tenuous way.  Chemistry must be a big tree with all these branches!  I can picture chemists all getting a bit merry on the results of the zymurgy.  Do hops still come into the equation or are they only for Real Ale?

Now this might seem an odd subject, but i want to know what has happened to yeast.  When I was considerably younger, I used to make bread and you could only get fresh yeast which had a very short 'shelf life.  i loved the smell and the texture of this yeast, and I am sure that the bread was much better than that which I make these days.

Nowadays you can buy dried yeast in sachets and tins and that seems to smell funny after quite a short time.  i have bought fresh yeast in the supermarket (Morrisons) which lasts for three weeks.

Have the scientists tampered with this very handy stuff?  GM'd it? 

I, at first, thought this was a sequel to that Dolly Parton song 'Jolene', but no.  According to the list I found it is a colourless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent.

Not a crossword solvent. 

OK, so that isn't going to grab anyone's attention, but it is really the cure for warts that I wanted to share with you.  None of your proper doctory cures here.  I discovered that you are supposed to be able to hypnotise warts:  I really don't know how you get the little devils to keep watching that swinging watch, but it is supposed to work.

Another interesting cure was acid. The liquid sort which would probably have the law round digging up your carpets to try and find all those other dubious items that get mooted about as ingredients for making 'things which you shouldn't'.  I just know I couldn't pronounce the right acid and  might have to resort to vinegar which is said to be the panacea for an awful lot of things.

The inside of a banana skin rubbed over the wart is also cited as the cure, though someone in China was moaning that it just turned the warts black, though it could have been the weather.

Anyone got any real cures?  I haven't got a wart at the moment but would like to be prepared.