Er, your worthy mother has had to cope with you for 50 years and a bit. Think about it from her perspective. (View Post)

What impressed me even more about @DecrepiterJohnL is the implication that he could persuade his lady friends that they were having a seaside holiday on the Costa Serpentine. At least on first readin… (View Post)

Dunno. Maybe they just liked variety. Here's another memorable Venetian Gothicky Victorian building, the University Museum at Oxford. They're not anal about the numerical basis of their little window… (View Post)

Quite right - not a continuous carved frieze, sorry, brain fart. Memory is one of the carved capitals from which the arches of the blind arcading, or the ceiling timbers, spring, but I can't lay my p… (View Post)

That's so nice, and especially resonant for me - I spent too much of the night of the Great Storm of 1987 in a train in the train shed. though I have to echo your feelings about the diversion of the … (View Post)