This one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Train_Bleu The is a (deservedly) less well known Agatha Christie novel set on it: The Mystery of the Blue Train. (View Post)

Better views (it’s normally cloudy at 35,000ft in my experience), more leg room, wider seats, less noisy, much lower chance of having your luggage end up in Cairo by mistake, no long queues at securi… (View Post)

One of our Field Marshals was French in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_French,_1st_Earl_of_Ypres (View Post)

Reading with your children would be much more effective than reading to. I don’t remember being read to as a child: I do remember reading vast numbers of books, often one a day. But that is just anot… (View Post)

Waiting for the SNP to implode is not the greatest electoral strategy that I can think of. (View Post)