Well that post brought forth a complex mix of emotions! Really sorry to hear you lost a daughter. For a parent to outlive a child is always a tragedy. But she lived long enough to start a family - sh… (View Post)

A future engineer! Ugh, I remember those days. (Actually, I barely do - I appear to have blanked most of the memories out.) I think of them often when we see our niece and nephew, who are around that… (View Post)

Yes, that was me - but I don't think my inability in Anglo Saxon is that I'm enslaved to the idea that there is only one canonical language - it's just that I am a monoglot who speaks … (View Post)

It doesn't really. Genuinely, we'd rather co-operate. We do co-operate quite well. Of all the things holding the north back, inter-municipal backstabbing isn't really one of them. I me… (View Post)

Just looked up the story on Northumberland Live. In a moment of bathos(?) it sub-heads the story 'Robson Green devastated'. (View Post)