shanks: one of the key settings was Battersea Power Station

Well, they won't be doing that again, will they?

Actually, Cirque du soleil have set up there, and are rumoured to be considering making it their 'permanent' location (from which, no doubt, they will be flinging genetically modified human hoops to all corners of the globe). Actually, the power station hasn't been functioning for yonks (decades even?) and only an unsafe outer shell remains: hence the lack of development - the shell is listed, I think, but unusable.

1. No, the lascivious Londoner is more merry Malayali (or bewilderingly brilliant Bombayite, or crafty Keralite) than gory Ghurka.

2. I've haven't even thought about khukris for years - then a friend of mine brings one back from Nepal as a gift and you mention the knife, in the same week, on the board. I'm becoming a bit paranoid. Nah. As we sceptics like to show - the human mind is geared to make patterns, and will do so at the drop of a hat. Fear not, we are not after you (we already have you - that's why ).