It's a question of euphony and sometimes subjective. The BBC is wrong about "Iris's cat" imho. But "Mr Daniels' dog bit Mr Roberts's cat" is acceptable, and il… (View Post)

Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts The hou… (View Post)

"Socialite"? That's alright then. For one awful moment I thought it said "Socialist". (View Post)

Every time you converted Sterling into dodgy foreign currency like francs or dollars you had to present your passport to the bank, who would stamp it like so: (View Post)

At the age of 15 I set off with a 16 year-old-friend on a three-week hitch-hiking and camping holiday. In those innocent times it seemed a perfectly reasonable thing to do. One day I hitched alone fr… (View Post)