Bless him. Can't believe it. Felt like I knew  him though FS and those meets and GB - may have been only three or four times, but enough to feel like I knew and was comfortable with him.

Immi's, Liverpool and our trip across the Mersey, his own place, GB, all happy times.

Rest in peace Rog.

Not this year, working bang in the middle of the weekend on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Hope you have a great time and weather.

Aye. True. Myself I like to think some things through from first principles, others I expect I don't even know I'm mindlessly toeing the line!

Tonight a politician MP came to the door looking for my vote for one of his party in the local elections, and asked what, if anything, I thought or wanted and whether he could help.  I heard myself saying I wanted honesty in politics and that one little tick on my piece of paper would probably not make much difference to that, and then we went on to discuss democracy and he quoted Churchill saying that it's not a perfect system but it's better than any other.  When his companion wanted to leave me her card for after her (successful)  election so that I would have her email and number for her to help me with what I wanted I said that if there was anything I wanted I would probably try and do it myself.

In all, a jolly time was had by all, and we shook hands before they left for next door.

Ah Andrew, they were merely examples of decisions that people might make later on in life - not actual topics for debate - they came out of thin air as I was responding to the question.

What I meant was - who decides what is a correct view on anything numinous or undefinable like faith, ethics, spirituality, child rearing, etc., etc.

Even physics is now a little uncertain.  Hence the Uncertainty Principle.

Neither did it work for us, not that we were following Catholic teachings - partner lapsed and me Anglican.  It was more because of a desire to use non invasive methods, chemical and physical.
Anyway, what I don't understand is the manipulation of the method - if making love is for the procreation of children - how come it's OK to weasel past that period of time and then have a free for all when there is no supposed chance of conception?

Or is that a totally naive question?

Thinking of you this morning Andrew F.

Must just be me then: 

I agree Andrew.
That book exposed the horror. I remember it well.  Forget the love story stuff.  It was all about the trenches for me.