What's their problem? Aren't they rich enough already? Are they just addicted to being important (?) and rich.

And you'll think. Yet another house I could never afford or my kids could live in.

We felt the same
But celebrate her life and what lives on from her in you and yours.

Good thinking. I'll make my own super short pastry and add some mystery ingredients to the bought in mincemeat to jazz it up.

Today's events might well have set us back a couple of months, but better that this happened before we were metres beyond it and desperately trying to dig out someone beyond the collapse. Are we crazy? Maybe. But also sensibly scared.

Well we'd like to know where this tunnel goes. We enjoy each other's company and trust our collective judgement and experience. Yes. If you get it wrong you get squashed and die, so scary is helpful in guiding choices. Careful but confident is the way to do it. Much as it was for the old miners.

Trumps brown shirts are on the streets and their actions are fully sanctioned by him.Strong parallels to Germany in the 1930s.

Not read that one, but Tim's book is a lovely exploration of hireath in relation to Cornwall, and particularly West Cornwall. I more or less read it in one sitting, then read it again more slowly, then again.

And Tim Hannigan's granite kingdom, of course.

You have just added to my reading list. Thanks!

So much sea, fish gutting, weather, beers, people, a deep understanding of what makes the place tick. I wish I'd written something like that about where I live, or want to live.

Lucy Connolly is a nasty piece of work and was quite rightly jailed for what she said. She has been released on licence in accordance with the law, but if she opens her gob on this matter again she goes straight back to clink. Watch this space.

I've decided not to go either.

Emperor. Clothes. Say no more.