20-3. It's the hope that kills you! Although, as my wife always says, this is cricket! (View Post)

The worst of it is that his bellicose attitude is encouraging the revolutionaries in Iran, but there's no follow-through support. Another 'army which didn't come' story for the fu… (View Post)

I sometimes wonder about the prospects for my half-Thai granddaughters, if they come here. At the moment the elder two are looking towards Australia, though, so that's problem not a problem nowa… (View Post)

It was standard practice, once upon a time, for the aristocracy. Pay off the girl and she'd keep quiet; now she takes the money and still talks. (View Post)

My favourite Douglas Adams anecdote concerns an Essex Creative Writing Group, not far from Brentwood, who were discussing their Winter programme. An elderly lady, new to the Group, offered her nephew… (View Post)