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Very smart new forum, well done. I particularly like the green colour scheme

How nice to be remembered Marb(le):) and hope you are well and content with your lot Think I first came across this site when it was mentioned over at TRF, 10 or more years ago

This is a good site for coin valuation: http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/values/index.html Unless 'bright uncirculated' (BU) they're likely to be worthless, though if your two bob bits are pre-1947 they'll be worth at least £4 as they were 50% silver until then Masses of coins and banknotes...

Watched it following your recommendation. Well acted and a powerful examination of a nervous breakdown and the dangers of going 'cold turkey' following over-reliance on benzodiazepines and antidepressants. Otherwise, rather too formulaic and cliched I reckon with a particularly weak - if happy -...

By gum, not 'arf. That was seriously unsettling and as you say, a masterful piece of acting: the quintessence of Psychopathy. The performance of DCI Stewart barely coping with the grizzly revelations was splendid too

Enjoyed the first two series of Unforgotten and now half way through Series 3, so no more spoilers please :)

There was some rather confusing news on this 35-day data kicking around on the BBC yesterday This from the BMJ might clarify: Among people aged 70 and over, protection against symptomatic covid-19 after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine reached 61% (95% confidence interval 51% to 69%) from...

Thank you G-G By coincidence a couple of days ago I decided to give Netflix a go and was wondering what to watch on it, so with your prompting and having not watched it before have begun my delve into this new world with Unforgotten starting Series 1. Looks very promising

Having short-lived side effects after vaccination is actually a good thing as it indicates that your immune system is responding well to the vaccine https://inews.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-side-effects-coronavirus-jab-minor-reactions-symptoms-explained-877533 I'm 64 and have not yet been...

The Serpent was very good. Liked the way it was shot in 'soft focus' - for want of a more technical phrase - which seemed more apt for the 70s than UHD would As ever with 50s 60s 70s period pieces produced today, the smoking was over-emphasised and failed to recreate the nonchalent, slick...

This I'd have thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy are known as the 'Dark Triad' of personality traits/disorders and I would suggest that they occur with a greater frequency in politicians than in the public at...

Angela Merkel

'The Great Plague' on Channel 5 is worth watching. Only seen the first episode as yet which includes much interesting stuff such as London's attempt in 1665 to isolate itself by preventing international shipping from entering the Thames and the 'contact tracing' carried out during the 1900...

Don't think your barking up the wrong tree at all My over-simplistic opinion: Poverty in the third world largely means surviving on a subsistence diet of bland but basically wholesome, healthy food: cereals, complex carbohydrates, limited protein, and - perhaps for the more fortunate - fresh...

Indeed DO; hence my concern about rigorous elf-n-safety testing being compromised and efficacy not being quite that being claimed. For instance, has any peer-reviewing of the research and results been carried out I'm no lover of 'big pharma' - essentially 'big capitalism' - but they do at least...

I've just had the annual flu jab and earlier this year had a shingles jab: effective, safe vaccinations released to the public after many years research and development. So, of course I'd take a Covid jab, provided it is, or they are, thoroughly tested as being a) effective and b) safe This...

A lard days night Gril

Top post BH The wearing of vintage fur garments is akin to owning ivory objets d'art carved prior to the CITES Convention banning - entirely correctly - the ownership and sale of such items carved since 1947; and since the passing of the UK Ivory Act in 2018 a very restricted list of ivory...

Is it Vicki Young you're referring to Reet? She has been the 'Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News' for some years; Kuenssberg is 'Political Editor of BBC News' Which presumably means that the latter gets the best gigs and a thicker wedge I prefer the pleasantly calm Young to the brash...

I feared it might have been 'dramatised' a bit; but no, it was pleasingly understated and I thought the sympathetic portrayal of the down-on-their-luck couple who found the poison in a perfume bottle was particularly good. Fine acting all round