@VanishedLondon Very interesting. I have friends who live on St Peter's Street and have crossed the road opposite the terraced houses and Tesco umpteen times. I shall look at them with a different eye when I visit next.
@Reuters Not enough detail in article but Brexit doesn't affect healthcare of UK citizens resident in Spain. If receiving UK state pension UK funds their healthcare to same level as Spanish citizen. Whether enough or not an issue unchanged by Brexit
@DanNeidle@John2Win If I have an opinion about issues other than pensions, will I remain a Silver Voice or will some other patronising epithet be foisted on me?
@Brumpic Ha! I was on a bus to Cotteridge at the start of the floods in 2007 and when we went past Cartland Road the water came under the doors of the bus and washed up the gangway
@procrastixote@youthandpride To be treated with caution. The line only 'works' on a Mercator projection and Stella Maris monastery is associated with Virgin and prophet Elijah. Also ignores many other places associated with St Michael.
@anon_opin I'm not sure what 'integrating properly' means. I live in rural France and a fair number of locals don't integrate with their own local community.
@ithacarising Conflating 2 things. France is highly bureaucratised but that doesn't presuppose that the systems don't work. Other experiences are available. Few people take to social media when things go smoothly. My experience couldn't be more different
@MartinLaGrang10@PulpLibrarian Indeed. I was a secondary teacher in the 80s and inevitably some Herbert, inexplicably bored of my lesson, would snap his ruler and claim he had been sold a pup. Cue lecture on difference between shatter and snap. Sad, really.
@LotsOfTreesHere Just here to offer a slight counterpoint to some things here. Local amateur gardeners rot comfrey in a bucket with a small tap at the base and draw off concentrate which is then diluted. Laughed at me (nicely) suggesting to soak leaves in water.
@gro_tsen A quick chat about this in the local bar with French native speakers elicited one "Putain d'Amazon", two shrugs and three "C'est du n'importe quoi"
@For_Film_Fans Considering this is only a few years after the Great Stink, and the high level of industrialisation, I'm surprised the photographer got such a clear image