Age distribution ... educational level ... moral training ... (View Post)

Reminded of two student friends who got married while studying. Registry office, reception at home in their two up two down terrace house, wedding meal a big slap-up saucepan of dhal curry and anothe… (View Post)

The logic which Stuartinromford outlines (not his own!) is also defective in that there are all sorts of other reasons to replace/rebuild schools anyway, and if there are x schools with a design life… (View Post)

Oh yes, I was brought up on them ... actually I hope I'm citing the right one of the pair just now. (View Post)

Sure, but - as I read many years ago in Gordon's The Science of Strong Materials - there are many ways to fail. Once one ceiling slab element in a school starts failing, no way can you rely on t… (View Post)