I never saw the point of English and English lit at school, particularly the latter. In my opinion the great writers just wrote stuff - they didn’t sit down and analyse why what they were writing was… (View Post)

People make poor choices. Perhaps the Christmas swim is one of their big things? Don’t want to miss it and it will be in and out in minutes. Like hillwalking/climbing you can escalate from poor choic… (View Post)

I suspect it was mainly driven by the popularity of the author and lots of pushing by his mates at the BBC etc. I tried it and gave up, and I rarely give up on books. Utter rubbish. Implausible, bori… (View Post)

As a complete aside, for a while the wife and I had beans on toast every Wednesday. Stopped a while back, but kinda miss it… A really simple meal, quick, good value and I loved it. (View Post)

Never been in a Gail’s, but noticed one has opened in Salisbury when we went there on Thursday. This part of the world is Reeve the Baker country, so will be interesting to see how they fair. (View Post)