Or many elderly. PB often has a disturbing tendency to forget those folk (and PBers to forget their own likely future). As for buses, if Lothian Buses can have two wheelchair/buggy spaces and a quick… (View Post)

The 'SEATO' rather dates it ... (View Post)

Drinking it, too. It wouldn't need much more than a failure of kit in a treatment works, and an infected person, for a cholera outbreak in London. With rather less excuse than the Regency era pe… (View Post)

Dunno, but another piece today has this correction: 'This article was amended on 16 July 2024. East Kilbride’s Open Cattle Show Society was not formed in 1772, as an earlier version said, but th… (View Post)

In much more important news: all those storms are causing shite cups of tea. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/16/storm-ciaran-saw-boiling-point-of-water-drop-below-100c-study-finds (View Post)