Didn’t feel particularly heroic when I spent most of yesterday in bed, horribly hungover. I couldn’t face a beer until 5! (View Post)

I’d rather congratulate Mr Salmond for his fine patriotic work with a wholly Scottish production company. (View Post)

Not quite the canal view I hoped for, but I can’t really complain for €40 a night! Really nice little apartment though, and only about 200 yards from the beach (View Post)

My hat is quite similar! (View Post)

That’s a bit like the etymology of the “forlorn hope”, in its older sense as a small group of soldiers basically fighting to the death to hold up the enemy at a choke point (like the Mariupol defende… (View Post)