I'd think of PB circa 2000 as being more Layer Cake than Trainspotting. Trainspotting had too much running. (View Post)

It's interesting what I still have from my parents' wedding in 1960 - quite a quantity. The star item (ie I like it) is probably an Old Hall Robert Welch Oriana stainless steel teapot etc, … (View Post)

I've always had Alistair Darling down as someone with whom I would enjoy sharing a dram. I do love the photo over on the BBC of a younger Darling who looks like a cross between Noel Edmonds and … (View Post)

Yes - iirc it was "There is this shortage (says the computer). YOU FIX IT, OR ELSE." Which meant that SPOs put their own savings in because they were scared. (View Post)

Bearing up thanks - more or less out and about again, and doing my first trip around friends in the south a week before Christmas. Physically I'm slightly worse - not enough exercise, and on a r… (View Post)