I’ve been to Sinatra and the Pena Palace twice, but I didn’t know about the Initiation Well until afterwards. We’re spending February in Lisbon, so it’s on my list to visit this time

Link?

They’re puny little bollards. These are great big bollards. Perhaps the bank should use these?

Not that I remember. I would probably be around 6-10 years old and I can’t imagine it being on the record player if it was

Grew up listening to the likes of

And we're all off to Dublin in the green, in the green
Where the helmets glisten in the sun
Where the bay'nets flash and the rifles crash
To the rattle of a Thompson gun

Someone who presumably wouldn’t engrave anything on the bullet, as reported, and maybe affect its flight.

Trump seems to be doing a good job strengthening BRICS

Maybe like a fish, from the head down.

Some absolute nutters. MTG and her Jewish space lasers nonsense and people lap it up.

I remember using ftp, telnet, gopher etc. Also having to buy a web browser, Netscape, and it was delivered as two 3.5” disks sellotaped to a piece of cardboard

You’ll know that the web came some time after the internet started though. Some people think that a Brit invented the internet, including big companies such as BA and BT in their advertising at one time.

I think I could get out onto the internet using services like Compuserve and Cix in the late 80’s before the UK had its first ISP, Demon. Wasn’t a very friendly place to get around, but I remember I could telnet into Steve Ballard’s computers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

The origins of the internet date back to the 1960/70s. Not sure about some of that gear though.

Do we have anything similar?

I went to Cardiff once. The absolute best thing about it at the time was the Dr Who exhibition there.

Something like Dozy Powell