If you put the three books together the cover art showed a view of The Land. Teenaged me used the map to work out where the viewpoint was from but I have long since forgotten.

Bagpuss was set around 1900, 70 odd years before the programme was made. Why would you set it in the modern day?

I don't think I know anyone who has been thrown off Facebook. I did not expect you to be the first.

Thanks. 10,000 citations as of yesterday.

Thanks, I'll take a look after I get back from archery practice (yes really).

You could be right. My own discipline is target archery and there are many other techniques. It will be an interesting question to put to my coach (who knows about the biomechanics of it all). "How would you pull a 100lb+ bow?"

Indoors, my archery club shoots with 18 people in a line along the width of a basketball court. Longbow, recurve and compound. I'm pretty sure we are not in a six foot box.

I don't shoot longbow myself, but I have shot with people who do and none of them hold their bows horizontally at any point. In the photos the archers don't hold their bows vertically even at full draw, but are always at an angle. In target archery that would throw your aim off at any real distance.

Yes, occasionally the smog parts and sunlight falls on the pale faces of the Londoners.

Me, on the Northumberland Lawn at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.

I had a ZX81 when I was 10 years old. Learning to program on it has kept me in employment all my adult life.

What is a "first colleft"?