On a separe subject, as someone vaguely local - I'm on holiday in Speyside in October with the wife and kids, and intend to do a castle one day - would you be able to offer a recommendation? (View Post)

Every time some neophile derides CASH, it motivates me to make another transaction in cash in order to keep the medium alive. (View Post)

Final of the T20 Blast today. Sadly, it being mid-September now, no-one's really interested. Which is fair enough. I'm the first to complain when football starts trampling all over the cric… (View Post)

I have a bit of a problem with words like 'miserly' or 'greedy' being used to describe people who are not profligate with other people's money, or 'generous' for th… (View Post)

I don't think that's right. The American city of 100 years ago was dense and gloriously walkable, often with plentiful public transport. Car dependency, when it came, had to be crowbarred i… (View Post)