The Co-op is the only grocery shop left in my village. I know several of the staff and they are not complimentary about their employer to put it mildly. Aside from staff issues, my impression from th… (View Post)

I used to see a GP, a doctor of the old school, who did exactly this and it seemed to work very well. But alas he also retired (and recently passed away and was much mourned). Now the village where I… (View Post)

Terrible picture, but I'm pretty sure that's a Harrier. If you enlarge the image enough the bulges of the intakes are faintly visible, and the wings appear to be mounted too high for a Hawk. (View Post)

Not an anachronism, just different circumstances. Plug-in electric kettles of the type ubiquitous in Britain are much less useful in the US because their 110v electric supply means the kettle takes m… (View Post)

Anecdote alert. I was sitting in a waiting room in a hospital in Glasgow when Sturgeon's press conference came on the TV. One of the nurses who was doing paperwork nearby looked up at the TV, took in… (View Post)