Recent content by Graham B

Mouldy bread and honey works well too. If you have the luxury of bread hanging around long enough to go mouldy, and if you can find honey given the depleted bee population…..

Johnson and Trump. Both of them did the exact same two specific things which dramatically increased the political idiocy on both sides of the pond, and gave the likes of Truss and MTG a voice and a shred of credibility they don't remotely deserve: 1 - Kick out or otherwise remove support from...

1, 5, 6, 8 plus 10 & 12, in no particular order. There are some superb shots there.

In north Essex and Suffolk there were huge vote leave and leave.eu posters in thousands of fields by the roadsides. You couldn’t drive anywhere without seeing them over and over again, whenever the road passed fields or farms.

Use it as a gaming monitor? ;)

I had knee damage including torn ligaments in a motorcycle accident 14 years ago, and it still gives me regular problems and varying levels of ongoing pain. As with the OP I suspect it will never fully recover, so ways have to be found to mitigate the issues. I have found that types of knee...

The same thing appears to be happening to GP’s, with lots of stories on FB & Twitter about established doctors and locums being unable to find placements, or being moved aside in favour of Physician Associates or similar less-qualified (cheaper) employees.

Going back (slightly) to the beginning of checks on various imported goods, I think this will be a clear case of harm, delays and increased costs that are undeniably a consequence of brexit. This is why the government has been so slow and unwilling to implement them, despite the issues it has...

Yes, the aircraft type is normally clear when booking, although it may not go into granular detail such as Max 7, 8 or 9, or NEO / CEO for Airbus. Flight Radar 24 can give more details on their schedules, usually giving the MSN although these can be subject to change depending on circumstance.

It’s fine to say with hindsight that RBS should have been allowed to fail, but at the time it was impossible for all the reasons already mentioned. The risk was just incalculable. There was no deposit protection sufficient, including for all the corporate investors such as pension funds who...

Nope. Regulatory inadequacy ALLOWED board arrogance and negligence to take them to the brink.

No, almost all of the above is wrong. You are correct that banks have dependencies for their funding, that is completely normal, and is intended to spread risk. But, at the time, RBS were the biggest bank in the world in terms of assets (whether they were genuinely assets is moot at this...

Couldn’t have done that with RBS. They were too heavily leveraged with other banks (including central bank) due to their funding model, and they were responsible for the infrastructure running worldpay and swift at the time. If they had crashed, they would have brought down Barclays, Lloyds...

That’s a shame, maybe the build quality has declined. Thank you for your recommendations on coffee beans however, we’ve tried a few and not been disappointed, and have a subscription with Pact now.

We’ve got a Sage barista and have been very happy with it. No mechanical or reliability issues, although we are fastidious with cleaning and descaling as we are in a hard water area. It’s not a single button press solution - you need to make the espresso shot or shots, then add water if required...