I don't dislike her - apart from Rupert Lowe, I don't have strong views about any current politician, certainly in comparison to the verbal vitriol dished out by some on here. I presume she… (View Post)

Evening now all :) Wildly off-topic, I always thought the flour bombing of Roy Jenkins at East Ham Town Hall in 1975 was connected to the EEC Referendum campaign. There's a picture of him on the… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) Random late afternoon thoughts - a wonderful day for solar power generation. Mr Stodge Senior (the one with the Irish ancestry) was a long sitting and occasionally standing CAMRA mem… (View Post)

I confess I've not given the situation with Ireland much thought. My father's ancestor came to England from County Mayo but I've only been to Ireland once. I've always thought the… (View Post)

Good point - he was my father's great-grandfather (according to the family tree) so I suppose I can add one to that. I suppose I was trying to differentiate between my father's family who s… (View Post)