They are planning to ban the sale of new diesel/petrol cars by 2035.  Presumably it will still be o.k. to buy second-hand ones, which will rapidly be in very short supply with prices to match!

Personally I don't like the silence.  And I particularly don't like the idea of a car moving off from a parked position without any prior audible warning that it's alive (i.e. the sound of an engine starting up).  If I had one, I'm sure I'd run over a cat within a week.

Me later still I'm afraid, but Happy New Year anyway.

We are overrun with "rescue" mince pies - rescued, that is, from the endemic ignorance of the difference between "best before" and "use by".  As soon as they are past "best before", the supermarket gives them to a charity which then tries to throw them out unless my wife rescues them and brings them home.  As if that were not enough, we have been given some mince-pie-flavoured fudge!

OMAG stood for Overseas Mails Accounts Group, and we were based on the 6th floor East block of the old Chetwynd House. You may recall it better as Royal Mail International or International Letters?

Oh, thanks for that.  I was never in Chetwynd House.  By the time our little group relocated from Swindon to Chesterfield, ITD had moved to Barker Lane.

What needs to be done is to reduce the need for travel rather than pandering to it.  For 16 years I worked for The Post Office (later Consignia, later Royal Mail Group).  When I joined, with the former PHQ scattered to the four winds we had video conference facilities to reduce travel.  But hardly anyone used them because the quality was crap.  16 years later it was still crap.  That's where the investment should be going.  Trouble is, no-one wants it.  They'd rather have a day out.

The subtlety disappeared when he announced exactly what I'd been saying.  What I got wrong was the timing of the prorogation, which I thought was earlier.  Not much point in it now, is there?  Oh no, sorry, I forgot, it was never anything to do with Brexit, was it? (snigger)

He's only the "best choice" from the point of view of those whose priority is winning the next general election.  Some of the "right shower" who are trailing behind him may actually care about the country.

I've just seen this.

I once witnessed this very thing in the office canteen.  A very quiet, rather timid lady, who always sat on her own, was carrying her tray from the hatch to the cutlery station, but when she stopped, her lunch didn't.  It overshot the tray and landed upside down on the floor.  She hurried back to the hatch and whispered nervously to the assistant.  Unfortunately the assistant was the one known as Pam the Voice.  The words
'OW DID YA MANAGE THAT???
rang out across the room, and everything stopped.

How to make a spectacle of yourself without really trying!