Robert, this one's rubbish. Send him away. Oh, you have. Thanks. (View Post)

I'd absolutely live on a sink estate in London. Have you seen sink estates? The houses there aren't palaces, but they're closer to palaces than medieval hovels. Every winter, I marvel … (View Post)

A pedant notes - that was only the traditional order for a relatively short period of time. For our parents' generation, and those before it, marriage was one place to the left. For our children… (View Post)

They are, I believe, bloody stupid birds. I don't mean this pejoratively. All animals have different skills, and criticsing an owl - whose skill is to be able to detect tiny rodents moving - for… (View Post)

Owls are not uncommon these days, apparently. I was talking to a vicar a few years back who has banned them after one too many occasions of them electing to take the rings up to the high beams of the… (View Post)