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85, and still presenting weekly episodes of In Our Time... (View Post)

When I was a kid you had a number, not a card (I can still remember our family's coop number 40 years on), and you had to go and collect your "dividend" from the main coop in town once a ye… (View Post)

Well, they got both Castle and Chesterton (the latter by only 10 votes) to just gain control of Cambridgeshire. (View Post)

I have done Halifax to Vancouver by train -- sleeper train to Quebec City, then day trains to Toronto, and then the Canadian to Vancouver, with a stopoff in Jasper along the way. I really enjoyed it:… (View Post)

I think it's easy to look at the "making piles of cash" or "becoming super famous" status seekers and say to yourself "well, I don't play either of those games so I don't car… (View Post)