Has anyone mentioned the OS Maps ap yet? For about £25 a year you carry the entire OS database on your phone and it will tell you exactly where you are. I found it useful recently on the South Downs … (View Post)

9/10. It was "spiritedness" that gave the game away - a ghastly compound derivative of two suffixes bolted onto the end of "spirit" which would, in itself, suffice. No native Engl… (View Post)

Just had an automated phone call. "Hello, it's British Gas. Please press any button to hear an important message about your bill." So I pressed the red button. Worked a treat. (View Post)

If asked nicely I could still sing, verbatim, Dominique by The Singing Nun. It isn't every year we get a chart-topping French song about the Albigensian heresy. (View Post)

It's politics as showbiz. It's hard to see Starmer competing against Fizzy with an electorate that finds "I'm a celebrity..." intellectually challenging. (View Post)