I may be unusual in thos, but as an atheist I have a lot more instinctive sympathy for the Presbyterian kirks than the Episcopalian ones. I'm running through why this may be so. I think 75% of i… (View Post)

I saw this shop in Edinburgh last October: Although while I've seen the pun once before, I was clearly pleased enough by it back then to photograph it and send it to my mother in law. So a good … (View Post)

Well yes, I don't disagree. I just quibble with the 8th biggest x in the world being described as a tiny x. "Look at that tiny lion!" "But that's the second largest lion in t… (View Post)

Your regular reminder that Great Britain is by no measures a tiny island, it is the eighth largest island in the world. Not that that changes the thrust of what you say - I just can't let the ti… (View Post)

What was the Queen's thing? I'd say it was basically being less awful than any other public figure. He could try that. (View Post)