There was - the article discusses it! 'Recreating the act of trimming grass is nothing new. Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the ZX Spectrum came free on a Your Sinclair magazine cover tape in 1… (View Post)

Not at all. Some of us have the same. Working on the rigging of a model of HMS Victory. Sorting through the miscellaneous screws from my dad's workshop in the shed. Or being on PB and reading Ba… (View Post)

I'm old enough to remember when such things, maybe called "rates" - shall we try that?, were decried by the Conservative Party government of the day as unfair to the well off Tory voti… (View Post)

Just look at the hysteria over air photographs of people's gardens in Wales, transmogrified into drones leering at sunbathing ladies etc. Which is for the *eaxisting* system. Translated: "h… (View Post)

Also: the council tax banding stopped at relatviely low levels even in 1991, to try and keep an element of the Poll Tax. (View Post)