1 hour ago, exchemist said:

Hmm, Scheveningen, or St. Andrew's or Helensburgh for that matter, are hardly "safari parks", though.

Pity.

(I did live in Scheveningen for a while. A bit chilly but matjes on the seafront were nice)

5 hours ago, exchemist said:

It is not very easy to tell the difference though. And they can be a menace, as we found out when we lived in Scheveningen in the Netherlands (and my son found to a lesser extent in St Andrew's).

Should have gone to Specsavers ?

1 hour ago, sethoflagos said:

Pity.

(I did live in Scheveningen for a while. A bit chilly but matjes on the seafront were nice)

Yes I agree, on both points.

2 hours ago, exchemist said:

Yes I agree, on both points.

The Sherlock?

Did quite a reasonable fissionships as I recall.

43 minutes ago, sethoflagos said:

The Sherlock?

Did quite a reasonable fissionships as I recall.

No, I was very much a family man at that stage, being married to a Frenchwoman who didn’t like beer and with a small son at the Lycee Vincent van Gogh in Scheveningen. So no pubs for me then. But quite a lot of singing, in an English choral soc and also in a small a cappella group that sang Renaissance polyphony (early music being a speciality at the Hague Conservatorium). I learned a lot about music while I was there.

2 hours ago, exchemist said:

So no pubs for me then.

Interesting. Not really a viable lifestyle option given my freelance employment pattern, which relied heavily on close of business social networking, especially in those days.

Still, that's getting rather off-topic.