We've been so poorly this week with colds and coughs and so reliant on internet shopping that we've resorted to tinned haggis tonight. (View Post)

Mods. If my comment above could cause legal problems please delete it. But I am just repeating what is being reported on TV. (View Post)

Theatrical Dames still with us: Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Harriet Walter. I hope I haven't jinxed them by mentioning them. (View Post)

Re: Phillipson. I read (admitedly in "The Telegraph") that she wants to make English Literature taught in schools more "inclusive". So goodbye to the classics. One headteacher was… (View Post)

Back in the 2010s my mother paid £800 for an emergency operation on her dog. (Admittedly it was on Christmas Day). It died 6 months later. She took the other dog to the National Veterinary College in… (View Post)