Also (to use an Americanism) I liked that it wasn't just the bears but the libertarians who were shitting in the woods. (View Post)

Investigating whether she forgot to bring in her blue bin on 17 February 2013, presumably. (View Post)

PS JUst remembered what Garvel is. It's an island off Greenock. Subsumed into the dock complex. Excellent views of the Clyde. Makes sense as The Lord Offord of Garvel was born and educated etc a… (View Post)

Garvel is a place [edit] somewhere in the Wild West of the Scottish Central Belt, beyond the Great Central Desert beloved of PBScotch Experts, and the expression has the effect of implying that he ha… (View Post)

Surely that's not true? Plenty of buyers for Dickens's novel and the spin-off play, film, and CD. (And I do recommend Ruth Richardson's modern history.) (View Post)