I learnt tech drawing (still very useful in mentally visualising things from plans - I've known senior managers who couldn't, and needed expensive models made of a project) *and* touch-typing at scho… (View Post)

Still surprised nobody is talking about his RN and Falklands service. I tried to point it out earlier, if only in fairness. (View Post)

Imagine moving from a Californian beach city to Sunderland as a result. Mind, both are pretty foggy at times. (View Post)

Or indeed enough dosh to even worry about IHT. (oh, how I had to reassure at least one elderly relative panicked by the Tories.) But those folk don't count so have, not coincidentally, buggered off t… (View Post)

Gained in part from shooting at strikers, albeit that was bog standard for rich capitalists in the US at the time. Perhaps more telling is his [edit] *self-built* birthplace museum, in Dunfermline. I… (View Post)