Coo! The very first thing looks like a 15" or 14" shell like what my dad worked with. *seriously tempted* (View Post)

Don't know what he's moaning about. He should know all about the solution to that, being a military historian and all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen (View Post)

Dunno if it's an English thing. But in Scotland you can choose a different and nicer registry office from the one you live in (so to speak). It is a very substantial freedom given the closure of… (View Post)

But they have. They're called civil marriages. (View Post)

Thanks. Quite so. (Scotland is rather different, of course, in other ways.) It probably doesn't make much difference as, on the whole, the decent buys will have gone long before the rule change,… (View Post)