Maxi was a woman's skirt. So too, on a much smaller scale, was Mini. (View Post)

Or, just as bad, no will at all (perhaps not so bad in Scotland where the family are guarenteed to get something, but in other ways it's still a huge pain, as I know from being an executor in su… (View Post)

In terms of current relevance to modern professions, one can discount classics teachers as they have skin in the game anyway - and RC priests don't need it now so much apart from their doctrinal… (View Post)

Surprised that you and, I now see HYUFD, miss the possibility of minority government. We've had years of it (and inter alia it enabled the Tories to be the unlovely stepparents of the Edinburgh … (View Post)

Who needs steak when there are mutton pies? (Or haggis/neeps/tats, or cheesy mac, if preferred.) (View Post)