The people who live there call it Suthell (I was born and brought up there in the 50s and 60s - it's newer incomers who insist it's call South Well). And Norwell is pronounced Norell, by the way. (View Post)
I think the first chapter of "Going Postal" by Pratchett is the finest piece of comic writing I've read, and it concerns a hanging. And I love Wodehouse, S J Perelman, Damon Runyon, Alan Co… (View Post)
A little something for SKS's St George's Day patriotism initiative: St George, it seems, was born a Grecian And got bumped off by Diocletian An Englishman he really ain’t So how come he’s their patro… (View Post)