QUESTIONS

Q: What is the origin of the term ‘blithering’ as in blithering idiot? J. E. Kirby, London N16. Q : In the film Field Of Dreams, Ray Liotta played a character called Shoeless Joe Jackson. Was he a real baseball player? Peter R. Wilson, Hartlepool. Q : Does anyone recall a comic poem about springtime in the Bronx? Dan Hales, Leicester.