I broadly agree with what I think your point is: in the early 80s, someone on an unspectacular but solid salary - a teacher, say, or@148grss - could afford to buy and live in an unspectacular but sol… (View Post)

On an entirely different note, and only as you're here, you may remember about two and a half years ago a discussion about the relative merits of English counties, in which you bridled slightly … (View Post)

I'm glad! There's a fair bit of the Newcastle Kingsmen and similar troopa on youtube, and I'm always pleased when they crop up. This is what English folk dance is, and should be. Fun. … (View Post)

Waterloo Sunset is lovely; a moving evocation of home, and surprisingly forgiving to the amateur singer. It is specifically a London song rather than an England song. AIRI, it was Ray Davies's a… (View Post)

Our haka is more like this (actual dancing starts from about halfway through, but I see the preambular lying as part of it). https://youtu.be/EOtnZEsbQew?si=-agiSFW1NFkV_nre (View Post)