(a) mortgages, etc. and a massive discount (sitting tenants, sure, but that wasn't the only element, there was a huge bribe element) (b) a lot of it was shit, therefore cheap - many folk up north got… (View Post)

You don't live in NI, presumably. But also there are wider implications for trade, some feel. Just been reading the following. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/european-conventio… (View Post)

Feeling too protective, even bearing in mind the apocryphal story about the French translation on Houses of Parliament brown sauce. (View Post)

The headline of the thread made me think, rather, of the British newspaper reports of the demise of a - and possibly more than one - Parisian philosopher-intellectual headlined as "Man of French… (View Post)

Very glad we keep our garden trees pruned every 2-3 years, the shed screwed down to its concrete base (It sits across the prevailing wind with a drop on one side), and had the garden fence rebuilt (t… (View Post)