My playground when I was young.

Beautifully captured. I like 2 best.

Surely that would have been worse without the apostrophe.

Our drive was blocked by a van back along. Final straw - it was labelled "Fred Bloggs - Electrician's".

Er - crumbs. One throwaway comment and all this happens. Sorry team.

John - I did Latin, but not Greek. Paradoxically, the only time I enjoyed history was when I had to translate it. I was a Hannibal fan and thoroughly enjoyed it When he gave the Romans a kicking.

Davidtrout I am with you 100% on apostrophe abuse.

I remember a very long delay on the way home from school years ago. There had been an accident between a bus and a lorry. When they separated the two, they found a bubble car flattened between them.

Since when have the BBC spoke English? "Court Martials"?

Someone saw the irony light then.

[pedant] Actually I think it is large or small. A deep depth? [/pedant]

Can you quote a source for that?

It's fine tonight down here.

An observation only - absolutely not a criticism.

Most activity related forums (fora?) I use have a number of boards for various aspects of the activity then an area where members can have a chat about whatever. We have General Chat here described as an area for open chat and yet some people still complain that non photographic topics are discussed. I would suggest that areas like this and posts like the off topic thread that actually get people communicating with each other are no bad thing.