There is sometimes a problem with lavatory design which seems to be some type of a reaction to some amorphous "rules". A good, if not perfect example of bad design is in the otherwise excel… (View Post)

I very much doubt it. Obviously before 1752 today would be 14 May so very likely there would have been hotter days equivalent to the first 11 days of June New Style. And that is before you start look… (View Post)

The Blob does exist and exists at every level above parish council. Try pushing something though a district council or a National Park Authority that the officers don't want to do. They will eve… (View Post)

The costs have been more or less removed for some documents but not all. It used to cost about £2 a sheet to have it photocopied about 20 years ago so manual use of the Deeds Registry was the only wa… (View Post)

One perversity of using pencils at polling stations is that you can immediately identify whether a vote was cast in person or by post. When people vote by post they write out the forms at home in pen. (View Post)