No, just not interested in politics - working too hard. Though plenty of my contemporaries went on such marches, peace camps, Greenham Common, etc. Edit: which makes suggestions that the past was a p… (View Post)

I think it's the English equivalent of the Scots Borders burghs ba games with Uppies and Doonies. Here the St Georges are battling to get their banner into the little hole just inside the door a… (View Post)

Clean forgotten about those! But yes indeed. And moreover varanids (monitor lizards) are generally fairly common - long, snaky, scaly, sort of spit fire with their flickering bifurcate tongue. Everyw… (View Post)

I said I was doing the conflating! But star ratings also count. (View Post)

In any case, Britain is meaningless legally. It's 'United Kingdom' albeit with the complication of NI being part of the EU for certain purposes. (View Post)