Congratulations - that's well deserved!

It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻

Yes, it is.

It was always predictable that that would be the next attack, following the rollback of Roe v Wade.

Exactly. The common law is silent when it comes to protecting a number of minority groups, including trans people. If the HRA was repealed or the UK pulled out of the ECHR then they would be left without legal protection. The common law protects those rights that the powerful consider important.

You can have that as your second career once you retire : )

The more one delves into British institutional decency and honesty, the more appalling it appears to be. It points directly to individuals more interested in their own welfare than those they are supposed to protect.

Lots.

l got a marriage proposal by someone l'd never met at a Sainsburys sandwich counter once. That's as inappropriate as this silly policy.

It's all that droit de seigneur mentality...

Especially given the sheer number of people who were born the wrong side of a royal or titled blanket...the number of people on who do you think you are that are descended from the big aristocratic families of England is quite extraordinary.

Yeah, I've had that experience too. I think it's nice in a way - it's quite the leveller. Puts everybody at the level of people chatting.

Mine has never been great, so I can empathise with that : )

That's a pretty pen! Journaling with a nice pen is a good way to keep your handwriting skills alive. Loads of people nowadays do all their writing on a computer so they struggle to read and write by hand.

l've just got into knitting and find the same thing happens : )

Enjoy!

I had one that I used all the time for years, but it eventually got lost. I am very tempted to get a new one, following this discussion!