Pumping up your pension is sound personal advice. In fact, I might even give the link to my son as a valuable but relatively inexpensive birthday present. But from a political perspective the creatio… (View Post)

I was lambasted by an elderly stranger in Sienna who saw me doing that from an adjacent table and was inconsolable. I'd probably enjoy the combination as much as you but the painful memory intervenes. (View Post)

We are indeed on the skids. The contrast between theory and practice gets wider and wider as more and more well-meaning regulations become impossible to enforce. So we're reduced to one particular la… (View Post)

10 hours of dehydration relieved by a bottle of wine. A warm, humid night in Miami. What could possibly go wrong? After 20 years I still blame the rental company for "giving" me (at no extr… (View Post)

Mrs S was filthy rich and I was filthy. Seems to work. (View Post)