To be fair, in A Christmas Carol, it's a turkey which Scrooge sends to the Cratchits

As a vicar in the Church of England, I entirely agree.

Presumably the real problem is not the purchase, but the ongoing upkeep.

£45,000? I thought they'd missed a zero!

According to clear sky, I'm blocked by 18 people, with a whole bunch happening on 31st May last year. Oddly, from the bios that I can see, they're all people I would agree with on most things! Bizarre...

Well, yes. You have a point! I'm not convinced, though, that many of the more recent crop are quite so heavy on the comedy and light on the horror as those.

A rose by any other &c. &c.

That's rather uncharitable - make more space for pedestrians by narrowing the roads instead.

☹️ Caught early, and with the right treatment, it has a very good prognosis, though.

I never had a real curry (nor a pizza) till I was 18. We had some horrible slop at school that they called curry, which I loathed, and which convinced me that I 'didn't like curry'. Happily I had some friends who took me to a proper curry house and made me try it!

Anyone remember Noel Stanton and his "Army"? Same vibes with added nazism...

Ministry Development Review forms

That's a *phase*??

If my parishes wanted to use the vicarage garden for functions they would have to offer to do the gardening...

are fearful that by 'fighting fire with fire' they may suffer the same fate, albeit in the opposite political direction (depending on the presenting issue).
Partly also because extremists are frequently vicious, violent nutcases (or associated with them) and who wants to get self or family killed?