Agree with you about the debt, and the situation is getting worse. Interestingly, admittedly several years ago now Mrs C and I went with our just-setting-up-home teacher grandson, and his fiancee, to… (View Post)

I went well away from home to study, and it was very good for me. I was a middle-class youth from South Essex and I went to live in an industrial city in the North East. What's more I lived in lodgin… (View Post)

Although, sounding sadly Trumpish, he lost the popular vote! (View Post)

It's a bit like the subdivisions of the British Army isn't it; the basic fighting unit is the 'company' with about 150-200 men. The Romans, too, worked on units of no more than 100. (View Post)

Sometimes I'm really, really glad I'm retired. Apart from getting a pension or two. (View Post)