It was ever the case I am afraid Ben. Back in the early 2000s I was earning about £40K a year. Brown had introduced working/child tax credits and I got a letter telling me I should fill out all my de… (View Post)

Happened in Newark last year. Made the local paper so presumably fairly rare. (View Post)

I think my main problem with them is there are a couple of things that can go wrong that are 'almost' impossible to detect in advance and which, if they fail, can only lead to catastrophe. … (View Post)

There are some things worthy of a bit of a brag. (View Post)

Yep. We used to crew change by basket in the Middle East and it is definitely a lot more scary. We also had to crew change by boat for several hitches after the Shetland crash back in 2012. Doing tha… (View Post)