Douglas Bader was a heroic figure, but also, I believe, like many heroes, quite difficult in person. During the BoB, ISTR he had very much his own idea of how the fight should be executed which didn&… (View Post)

Happy New Year pb! Without noticing, to erroneously paraphrase HMHH, it's become cliched to he cynical about new year. "Oh, we don't really do anything - we're in bed by 10.30&quo… (View Post)

Is that the worst thing? I can think of half a dozen bigger problems OTTOMH. (View Post)

Yes, when we have millions upon millions of people who apparently want to become British to choose from, it baffles me that we choose to bring in the ones who apparently don't like Britain very … (View Post)

OTTOMH, I would rank the subjects thus in order of my respect for them: Maths Physics Biology/Chemistry Languages* Art/Music Anything vocational/technical/PE Geography/Economics/Psychology English La… (View Post)