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Strangely, the loaf doesn’t know what its use-by date is. It just gets stale at a rate according to its constituents. If they haven’t changed the ingredients then by bringing the sell-by date forward they’re trying to get you to have the bread when it tastes better. And they don’t care if you...

When I go to the pub I want atmosphere but don’t want a drum. Why is a drum associated with atmosphere? Why not have flashing lights, or the release of distinctive smells, or the sound of crashing waves. The reason we don’t have any of those is because they’re as bloody irritating as a sodding drum.

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I need to question “this clusterfuck is largely of our very historic making,”. The Balfour Declaration was a noble attempt to help establish a homeland for the Jews. Our occupation of Palestine before and after the war was under a UN mandate, not an act of imperialism. We so defended the rights...

Is that meant to be English?

Going completely off-topic, I saw the film “Lee” this week (about photographer Lee Miller) which made me poke around Wikipedia for info of the artistic set at Farley Farm in Chiddingly. There’s an apocryphal story of Picasso in 1950 going into the Six Bells offering to pay for his pint with a...

As someone else has stated, the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan mainly because of the pressure from the mothers and families of the conscripts being slaughtered there. And that reinforces what I’ve always thought: the driver of the end of the war lies within Russia, not on the battlefields in...

And if a small state like Israel can intercept a supply chain like this, why can’t Russia similarly intercept the supply chain of mobile phones (mainly built in China)? Yes that phone, that one in your pocket right now…….

Not a good start to the day: the bus replacement service at 12.30 from Seaford to Lewes didn’t run because of a broken-down bus…….

Apologies if already discussed but I’ve just found out that the Seaford to Lewes trains on Saturday are replaced by buses. I think they’re ripping up the track and replacing our lovely wooden sleepers with concrete ones. I’ve already had a letter from National Rail warning me there will be...

I’m not a native German speaker but I thought it was OK to replace umlauted vowels with the “<vowel>e” construct if life is getting difficult and you can’t find the umlauted version. Admittedly it was at school 55 years ago but we were told that the umlaut was originally an “e” that, for some...

On Splitmyfare with a Senior railcard from Seaford leaving Friday morning and returning Sunday morning I’ve got a return ticket at £83.

What’s a yard sign?

Why’s it called “shithousery”?

See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pansy#:~:text=2-,a,or%20effeminate%20man%20or%20boy

That is so good. Here’s my favourite picture of our “they shall not pass” defence from a few years back.

But there are some lovely long train sets on the line today. Everything to and from Seaford are 7 or 8 carriages.

And if I miscounted the 123 steps, I just knew that the Football Gods would be angered and that we’d lose.

The railways attempt to compete with the car was the introduction of “parkway” station (Bristol Parkway, Didcot Parkway etc) with easy access, massive car parks so you could drive to the station and catch a long distance train. The trouble was that once the people got in their cars in the...

Rail travel in this country is both the most expensive and cheapest in Europe. If you turn up at 8:00am to buy a ticket from London Euston to Birmingham you pay the earth. If you go from Marylebone (prepared to be a bit longer on the train), off-peak, bought in advance of the day, with a...