Feeling my age. Just watched a documentary about Sid James - then realised that he died 46 years ago. (View Post)

Just 2 local by-elections today - in Redditch and Worcestershire. Both Con defences - in fact caused by a double-hatted vacancy. (View Post)

Just finished a chapter in my current fiction reading. I have had to look up a number of words - I now know the meaning of barrater, liripipe, houpalande, and sambocade. (View Post)

I deferred taking the state pension until I was 67. I could do this because I already had a teacher's pension and was a borough councillor from age 63 to 67. (View Post)

Only one local by-election today - in East Riding of Yorkshire. Looks like a safe Con seat but the Lib Dems are on a roll in this part of the county. (View Post)