Can't help feeling this is getting like the times when churches seemed to think about nothing but sexual issues - married priests, gay priests, divorced priests, etc etc. I'm sure it's… (View Post)

Yes, I lived in a one-bed flat in a pleasant estate in Nottingham and paid £500/month. When I moved south for my job I got an almost identical flat where I live now. It's £1000/month. I shopped … (View Post)

That's true - though it's still generally a bad idea, and virtually everyone I know is now planning to avoid it, including people who had planned family get-togethers: they are all being ca… (View Post)

Well, as someone who's lived in 4 European countries and is very familiar with half a dozen more, I do think we're broadly the same culture, and distinctively different from e.g. US culture… (View Post)

I used to work for a sweet-natured Italian statistician in the days when people had personal secretaries. He did an analysis to show that his secretary was ill on Mondays only with a statistical sign… (View Post)