Jeanette - It is. I used to live in London in the 80s and early on a Sunday morning it's empty. The City is deserted at weekends - you could walk for half an hour and not see anyone except security behind their plateglass frontages.
Different since the Baltic Exchange bombings - when I last went through the City there were police checkpoints. Dunno if they're still there.
I used to get to the British Museum at opening time and headed for the deeper recesses before the crowds arrived - bliss.

My wife falls over if she takes caffeine - a good reason to avoid it, though this may be taking things a bit far. Just asking for decaff's usually enough.

Sorry, I haven't a clue what that was all about.

Tescos was like that the other day - even though it was open. People may have splurged a bit before the hols, but it's dried up now.

Soon to be renamed the Imelda Marcos Parkway.

How long before someone tries to claim that they should be allowed it on health insurance?

Arise, Psir Pterry.

Perhaps unfortunate that it looks more like a pig's snout than a smiley. Maybe the Thais don't have the same slang for their coppers.

A small girl of my accquaintance has been known to trampoline naked in the snow just for the fun of it. The neighbours don't give a hoot and neither do we. If she's still doing it at 16 I'll worry, but she's got a decade in which to learn a spot of modesty - which they generally do.

However - I didn't film it and put it on YouTube.

My daughter loves her slugs and snails...

www.skipweasel.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/garden/slides/19.html

As for the hedgehogs - that's my excuse for not tidying out the workshop at the moment - there's at least one hedgehog hibernating under the junk and it woudln't be right to disturb it.

If shooting's too disruptive, can I quietly strangle the kid behind who keeps kicking the back of my chair despite several requests to him and both his parents to stop?

DOJ:- Call it RaptorCorp and hope no one spots the spelling?

It's an explostive assisted butter pat. In very cold weather, butter is too hard to be easily shaped using conventional pats, so these were developed - the grenade-like device on the back fired on impact, shaping the bit'o butter better. Strictly a one-shot device, a second swipe was rarely needed since the butter was often neatly deposited in the next county.

Try doing that in a Walmart.

The obvious missing style is The Roadkill, with intestines spilling out etc.