Kilos are handy for calculating BMI. Mine weighs in at a tad under 25, unless I'm no longer quite as tall as I fondly remember. (View Post)

To avoid alienating grandparents? (View Post)

Cf. Northern Ireland's last Orange first minister. (View Post)

The next time you're on a flight that gets diverted to Minsk you might have pause for thought. (View Post)

Thirty years ago we sold our London house for around £150k and bought a tastefully-extended servant's cottage in Warwickshire for roughly the same. Now the former is "worth" £1.5M while the… (View Post)