I once queried a legal agreement that was devoid of commas and consequently somewhat prolix and was reassured that the law relied upon the meaning of words rather than the placement of commas and if … (View Post)

I was thinking a windfall tax on florists may be worth considering. Those limos are not VIPs en route to the funeral, they're flower-sellers on their way home. (View Post)

I was once arrested by Oxford police. Someone had broken into a butcher's shop on Iffley Road. "Couldn't have been me," I trilled "I'm a vegetarian." "They wer… (View Post)

This is true. I am an old hippy, not an old contemptible. Old people also change from one generation to the next. (View Post)

There must be a huge row going on behind the scenes over the date of the funeral. A bank holiday has been declared which rules out Saturday. The for-gods-sake-get-it-over-with party are presumably ca… (View Post)