Agreed, pottering around Orkney or Lyme Regis or Dorset's Jurassic Coast. And the weather (most of the time) doesn't matter. One of our best outings ever was on Unst in pouring rain, a sere… (View Post)

You're still aggrieved over Bannockburn?! Just think how the *locals* felt about being invaded. Some of us have moved on, however, in contrast. And if you were not so busy being a PBScotchplaine… (View Post)

Mrs C has just come in and asked why I'm looking up the Chapel on Wiki. She said 'Oh yes, that's where Dickens's workhouse that he was in, and which inspired Oliver Twist, was. It… (View Post)

And income tax, and CGT. Edit: but not NI (but some on PB argue that isn't a tax). (View Post)

Now if Westminster also gets enough seats for all MPs, and proper electronic voting buttons instead of being herded like the meatpacking pens in Chicago in Upton Sinclair's novel, it might begin… (View Post)