I know what you mean, and it's politically important, but how much of that failure is real, and how much of it is a failure to meet overinflated expectations? I don't want to sound like a n… (View Post)

Which would be fine if all that random crap had the power of Abe Simpson and were directed at passing clouds, or even the letters page of the Daily Express. But it isn't. It's a dementia ri… (View Post)

When we got the shoffice built, we put in about 4m of full-height Billies. The scary thing is how little impact that had on the overloadedness of the other bookcases in the rest of the house. (View Post)

Dammit. The secondary the Things attend have a nice enough theatre space/hall that they could do Sister Act on site. Lovely "space" (as the thespy types say), but no bar. (View Post)

That's a wise vicar. One of our problems in recent decades has been the cavalcade of crises. But one of the reasons we have handled them all so badly is that we have burnt off all the space (cri… (View Post)