Steve Rochford

I think that learning to drive a car should be achievable. Winning the lottery might be more difficult. Sorry.

My sixth form common room was painted black, dimly lit, had loud music playing and was filled with a fug of cigarette smoke. I don't think the podcasts I've been listening to are quite like that :-)

I know it wouldn't be easy, but are we coming to the point where we should scrap NI and just put up income tax. As a pensioner, I'd lose out but given that income tax and NI basically go in the same pot it feels cleaner.

Sadly, most of the people who tunnelled out of PoW camps are no longer with us but they would have made an excellent job of building a secret railway.

Wow! Just had to do the conversion from kg to lb and £ to $ but in the UK it's less than $5 for 2 lb.
I haven't been to the USA for a few years but food used to be cheap.

There's a piece of software which is frequently used by astrophysicists for plotting graphs and it's called Supermongo. The name is normally abbreviated to SM and searching for info about that can give some fun results.

@tflondon.bsky.social The Vale in Acton has been closed for over 24 hours with the 207, 218 and SL8 on diversion but your website says there are no problems on these services. Please fix.