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I've got a fair few Polsilvers, if anyone's interested. Stocked up and then realised that I prefer Astras in my ATT...

I have settled on one razor - my Above The Tie R1. Can't see me needing anything else. I've kept my first DE razor, an R89, for travelling. Works well with Feather blades.

Blimey! How much are you using? I've got a tube, have used it half a dozen times and it is still almost full. The problem I have with these products is that they are all useless. I've tried them all - various styptic pencils, Pro Raso, even that roll-on styptic and none of them work on...

Sold.

ATT S1 Slant with Kronos Handle. I bought it from a chap on here and it was pretty much as-new condition then. I've used it fewer than a dozen times, so it is still pretty much as-new. £70 included second class postage.

ATT old bean. Solid performers, look great and will last forever. Not cheap, mind but good value.

Absolutely. Not to mention that the BEF was entirely mechanised. They abandoned 20,000 motorcycles and 65,000 other vehicles at Dunkirk plus nearly 500 tanks. The beach would have looked like a car park but in the film was practically empty...

Saw Dunkirk a couple of days ago. Sadly, very disappointing Hans Zimmer's ghastly 'score' overwhelms everything with a cacophony of wailing strings and crashing horns, screaming emotional instructions at the audience every couple of minutes. The cinematography is dreadful, with the dark blue...

Well, I've only got two soaps (yeah, I know, what a lightweight eh?) - Kent (i.e. Mitchell's Wool Fat) and Saponificio Varesino. I believe that the former contains tallow and latter does not. I can't detect any difference in terms of performance.

Watched Baby Driver yesterday. I've struggled to understand why Edgar Wright has such a following, given the mediocre quality of his films but his is a cut above the others of his that I've seen. OK, a lot of it could be described as "Edgar Wright does Tarantino" but the use of music (the...

I really wanted to like it but it was just dreadful. Characters you couldn't tell apart, and simply didn't care about even if you could, dreadful dialogue and acting, unbelievably bad CGI, Fassbinder absolutely wasted. I stuck it out as far as the bit where he's learning the flute and then...

I'm very interested in the Camino and will be watching this.

Brilliant! The Mem Sahib has Amazon Prime.

I've been a bit suspicious of zombie flicks since the rubbish that was World War Z but that does look good.

Does anyone else keep a record of what books they have read? Sad sack that I am, here is what I've read so far this year: The President's Hat (Antoine Laurain) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy) Time and Time Again (Ben Elton) After You (Jojo Moyes) The Princess Bride (William Goldman)...

God knows I wanted to like it and there's clearly a pretty good whodunit in there somewhere but all the Latin bollocks and endless droning on about religion was too much for me and I stopped reading long before we got to "indistinguishable monk 3 in the conservatory with the candlestick" bit.

Ah, he'd done everything he ever wanted to do. Let's face it, if you're reduced to doing beer adverts in later life, it's time to go. Top bloke, great legacy.

I have to say that I don't really get the whole 'menthol cooling' thing. For a start, it's only momentary, and if you shave in either the morning or evening (which surely most of us do) they are the coolest times of day anyway.

Chris, do you have any data on windspeed over time in the UK? This short heatwave notwithstanding, has it always been so bloody windy in the UK? Spring was freezing because the wind stayed in the North and East and rarely seemed to drop below 15mph. My father-in-law visited recently. We're...

Dude, you might be over-thinking this a bit. I speak French myself but, as so often is the need for us Brits, a simplification is required. It basically comes down to the fact that in every relationship, there is one who loves and one who is loved. There's never an equal power balance in...