I like the wording here: one hopes the snark is deliberate. "She was paid a salary of £330,000 and commuted to work from Aberdeen. A rail insider said Ms Handforth had chosen to resign of her ow… (View Post)

Oddly enough, I've been to that very spot - Lamba Ness - on a Shetland holiday, long before UK space was thought of as having a future. Must have been in one of the most northerly B&Bs in th… (View Post)

Some points I hadn't appreciated about the £38K limit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/17/legal-action-planned-over-uk-cruel-income-threshold-visa-rules 'Meanwhile, new analysi… (View Post)

You ought ot have a holiday in Wales sometime. Listen to the bairns on the school run train up the coast from the Dovey and Barmouth estuaries. They seem very alive to me ... (View Post)

BTW, did you see the legislation has been passed to permit (not require) double council tax on second homes, but also be a bit more sensible about new buyers of empty homes to give them a chance to r… (View Post)