I do! And while I generally try to avoid cheap Chinese stuff, I'm very much a believer in a cheap Chinese watch. It does nothing measurably worse than a watch 100 times the price, and if I lose … (View Post)

I'm professionally quite interested in the concept of slack. The amount of slack you build in to your journey is dependent on the reliability of the mode you are using, the back up options (i.e.… (View Post)

Hence, I suppose, a 'fulsome' apology rather than a 'full' apology. (View Post)

A snapshot of several issues all at once: My wife and daughter are en route to Paris. There has been some anxiety about this: - will the taxi to the station turn up? - will Avanti cheerfully cancel t… (View Post)

My middle name is a leftover surname from a couple of generations back, though it also makes sense as a given name. It used to be quite common though, in the Victorian era at least to have an old sur… (View Post)