The problem with bilingual road signs in Wales is that they are invariably done on the cheap with no thought to intelligibility in either language. A better solution would be to use colour to disting… (View Post)

It's a lot easier to cross St Giles these days, too. Hardly any traffic at all. The B&B must have lost a few regulars in the past crossing six lanes of speeding 'motorists'. In Oxf… (View Post)

I wish they'd use that old stuff on R4 during the night instead of the misery-porn that constitutes the World Service these days. (View Post)

Oh my name it ain't nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I was taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on it… (View Post)

Got talking to an elderly in-law in Florida many years ago. "Ever been abroad?" I enquired smugly. "Only once," came the reply, "didn't like it." "Where?"… (View Post)