The problem councils have is that they are legally mandated to cover the costs of adult and children social care, and as these costs have risen continuously and successive governments have cut fiscal… (View Post)

Girton is the gold standard, surely? (View Post)

As a Swiftie I object violently to your last sentence. (View Post)

I'm not sure anything looks nice on a dark wet British winter's day, to be honest. Hence me being extremely over January already, and yet somehow it continues for its ninth or tenth week. (View Post)

True and I should have known better having grown up in a sandstone Scottish house, although the stone was facing IIRC, with a layer of red brick behind it. Part of our garden wall was red brick too, … (View Post)