Dear Nigel, I did not understand your Christmas thank you letter. I could not find the atomiser you asked for in any of the Lordship Lane gift shops. Love. Auntie MacRoban
Excellent news. It must be above zero out there and the snow is disappearing quickly. There's a good chance that public transport will be back to normal in the morning.
> it's not the 19th century No buses, no trains, seems 19th centuryish to me. In the 1950s and 1960s school teachers could and did afford local rents and house prices.
All credit for a good life to Dr Crane. Dr Isadore Crown, one of our local old style proper GPs, is, I think, still with us. Must be ninety if he's a day.
My cup is around 90% empty, but I intend to live as long as possible to get even on my pension provider. I might even consider a death-bed marriage to a very young person to keep the pension running for an extra 50 years.
My memory of squatters during c1972-c1979 when there was last a significant number of squatters in East Dulwich is that they either chose large and nice private properties or council flats. Small private terrace and semi-detached properties were pretty much ignored.
The nation state has three core responsibilities: (1) Protection from foreign enemies (2) Ensuring a sound currency (3) Maintaining law and order. The rest is politics.