A golden opportunity for bold and necessary change wasted, reforms of electoral system, justice, HoL, change course towards EU, utilities etc. however what we will get is a beta version of Starmer. There just doesn’t seem a person with guts and vision in Labour. That’s why Polanski is flying.

Two days in the nick!

Is German ‘Backe’ for cheek not related to ‘keko’?

Next: ‘let’s burn some witches’

Mitlaufsselbstrechtvertigung

Looks more like he’s just having one.

Most definitely! The beautiful cinema in Cambridge. The owners want to demolish it and replace it with offices!

Jaja, Brausepulver!

Vetter/Base in regular use in local Dialekt (Schwäbisch) in my youth.

I happened to make that tonight but replaced the sweet potatoes with a parsnip, really tasty, thanks.

‘Kacke’, ‘Kaka’ - colloquial German for shit. So literally big shit. We’ll done.

Could also have to do with your personal reference point. As we get older we accumulate our experiences,esp memorable ones. So the number of crimes we have seen or heard about add up as we age, hence crime must be ‘on the rise’.

If you fit a child with glasses in time and never let them take it off the head will grow around them. Sorted!

Thank you, very generous sharing your hard work. Kletzenbrot in Swabia is called Schnitzbrot, my mum made it and unlike all the other delicious ’Gutsele’ she made it got tough as shoe soles. Still have her old Kienle Kochbuch which I use (critically) just for Christmas bakes.

Classic example of Johnson’s approach. Being asked on his opinion on something he has no clue of, not preparing/ reading up because his brilliant mind will come up with something on the day. Worked well since his public school days