On topic, and by way of light relief from politics, the date of the latest sunrise is not the solstice (21st) December but the 30th. This is because there's a discrepancy between clock time (whe… (View Post)

It's a variation on a much-loved, much-repeated, Kenneth Horne joke. "As I was perusing PVC and Rubber Monthly, which I mostly read for the knitting pattern..." (View Post)

I was a professional apple-picker in Suffolk for three weeks in the 1970s having answered a small ad in The Times. It is regrettable to note that they are no longer recruited in such a civilised way. (View Post)

Presumably 42% Remain splits evenly into "semi-detached" and "ever closer union" so there's no majority for anything. (View Post)

Or a bicycle. (View Post)