I must admit, for reasons I find hard to understand, I have also found it hard to get too exercised about this scandal. Perhaps it is too technical, too hard to follow. But for that reason I am very … (View Post)

...which gives you a very clear idea of who got to look after the animals and who got to eat them in post-invasion England. (View Post)

Anyway: my smallest daughter - generally one of the makers-up of numbers in the U11s cricket team she plays in - has today, after, what, about 15 games, scored her first boundary: an astonishingly be… (View Post)

I still maintain the Norman conquest was the greatest disaster ever to hit our ancestors - greater even than the Roman Empire. Of course, its slightly complicated by the small but non zero part of ou… (View Post)

That's sad. But entirely understandable. An object lesson for us all to mend bridges before it's too late. (View Post)