Very impressed by anyone who can manage a marathon in any time. I can do a half but I think I'd be dead on the floor trying for much more than about fifteen miles. (View Post)

I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about this year, but that might be because I'm primarily fixated on the desire to see the back of this wretched pandemic and I think we're most of the… (View Post)

Times have changed. I think if the control is in place then I'm not at all sure that much of the general public notices or cares about the quantity, so long as the quality is right. Just because… (View Post)

I heard that Blair was to be admitted to the Order of the Garter. In which case, my understanding is that this is an award made by the Queen personally and not on the advice of the Government. (View Post)

Anyway, time to put this computer down and open the Champagne. Have a good night, and may the new year bring us all better fortune than the old. (View Post)