Everyone has their favorites. I particularly like the doubles, such as Tyne and Wear, where the tyne is the small fiddly thing you drop on the floor and the wear is the heavy piece of furniture it ro… (View Post)

Frome is good. (View Post)

You will no doubt be aware of Douglas Adams' delightful little volume named The Meaning Of Liff in which he connects place names with familiar sentiments which lack a simple satisfactory word. T… (View Post)

It was crazy. In the end though, Ukraine will survive ok, and may well prosper. Russia won't. It's cuffed. (View Post)

Watch it. It's an absolute classic. Worth it for the acting alone, but simply as a top class piece of film-making it is top draw, and as watchable now as it ever was. (View Post)