On which subject, this made me laugh. (Though I'd wish they'd got the quote slightly more right.) Also - I learned on Sunday that Ernie Wise made the first mobile phone call in the UK. (View Post)

They didn't need to go harder. They needed to go more competently. (View Post)

Sheffield is the loveliest of the UK's industrial big cities. I fell in love with it as soon as I first visited. Of course, it helps that I was coming from the west. So you arrive in the city th… (View Post)

Really?! Pretty much every time I wake up I have been dreaming. I don't have an alarm clock - so I don't tend to be woken at arbitrary times - perhaps if you wake naturally you're more… (View Post)

Jeez, TUD, I had no idea you'd been so poorly. I'm also having to massively readjust my idea of how old you are - I'd guessed you were late 40s. Best wishes for a continued recovery. A… (View Post)