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Well done John, Pearl will share some of her cakes with you

The Heavily Reinforced Bottom

How about a discount

That's the description of Inspector Japp in most of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries. I'm surprised that Philip Jackson was cast for that part. He's much better looking than "ferret-faced"! He aged well, too, based on a...

According to Granville, Genghis Khan never left home without his Manky Beans. Unfortunately Granville ended up with overstock and was forced to take drastic measures to move them.

Will do. Next up, Manky Beans.

Coarsely mashed? They're in a class of foods that don't like me, so I've never tried them.

Your actual mushy peas. :)

They're apparently marrowfat peas, and with a rather high sodium content. What else is required for them to be classified as "mushy peas?"

I recently viewed "The Funny Side of Christmas" for the umpteenth time. Clegg is describing the dinner menu, which includes bread and a nice bit of cheese. Compo objected vociferously to bread and cheese for Christmas dinner, and Clegg...

I called in there yesterday. All my Macc mates were from secondary school really, ‘76-81. I’ve still got my old badges from that time including the London March ones.

London to Inverness in one of LNER's newest trains, more uncomfortable than riding on the London Underground, give me a HST or Class 91 any day, sadly it seems all the mainline operators will be using these class 800 sets which are...

Not a spitfire but did this and it was very good, a very basic aircraft with wicker seats, wonder how it felt doing a long journey back in the day?

But Nora finds it useful for picking up bits of dust.