At least two lovely things about this: 1) You have great-grandchildren 2) You have a close enough relationship with your grandchildren to be exchanging phone messages. (It always delights me dispropo… (View Post)

I can never hear that name without chuckling. I wonder what he's doing now. Having just looked him up, he's executive of the International Fur Trade federation. Peculiar how lives turn out. (View Post)

You might have perhaps read about just how stuffed Germany is? (View Post)

Never underestimate the extent to which most people don't know about politics. I expect if you asked 100 people who the LOTO or the LOTCP was, less than half would answer correctly unprompted. I… (View Post)

A cultural prejudice against people from the Eastern Roman Empire? There haven't been any of those for 500 years! (View Post)