Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, News, Politics, Pondering on July 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Oh, where to start.
The NHS isn’t perfect and it never promised to be but I’m sure there aren’t many who would disagree that it’s founding principles of free health care for all, regardless of background and circumstance, are principles worth holding on to.
All the main political parties, at each and every election, can be depended [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Mother Earth on June 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Offload, Politics on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What’s that phrase they use about a week being a very long time in politics? Oh yes, I remember. It’s . . . a week is a very long time in politics.
The same can be said about the news.
I get my time on the pc and one of the first things I do is check out the news. [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth on June 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What a gorgeous evening to celebrate Midsummer. The sun has come out in her fine blazing glory in honour of her longest day’s work. After tomorrow, her days will get shorter and shorter and then Winter will arrive.
Here’s how this blog celebrated the solstice last year and as I can’t improve on that, I will just leave you with a [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Movies, Music and Dance, News, Politics, Reading on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I love movies. I don’t do TV, not much. I enjoy political shows, comedies and nature programmes but I have zero tolerance for stuff like reality TV, tiresome soaps and those live chat shows where Average Joe goes on TV and exposes all his private business to the world. I have to confess though that for the first time [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Rugby on June 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My son, gutted the other week because he wasn’t awarded the rugby player-of-the-year trophy, is determined to be the champion of something! He has now been entered for the schools Sports Stacking competition. He got the record speed stacking time in his school and will go on to represent Year three in a local competition.
I’d never heard of [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Pondering on June 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The End of Cheap Oil and the Rise of the Scythe
Originally posted on You Tube by Kaivido
Quaintly out-dated? A bit antiquated? Well, we might think we can look back fondly on those days of heavy labour and hard graft from the techno-safety of our retrospective armchairs but it’s not so far-fetched to believe that in this age of rising oil [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies, Music and Dance, Offload on June 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sheesh guys! I go away for a while to get ready for the reunion today and this place turns into ghost land. The only hits I’m getting are generated from that new automatically-generated thingy that WordPress added recently. Even the spammers have lost interest.
Anyway, to bring you up-to-date and make sure you haven’t forgotten me, [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to this article in today’s Guardian, the RSPCA has said that having animals in classrooms regularly handled by the children may be harmful to the creatures. Now I’m sure there are many who will be saying this is just more pc gone crazy or that it’s a health and safety policy too far but all things considered [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments on May 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Misslionheart tagged me earlier this week and in true EP spirit, I’m only just getting round to playing. I’m not really sure what the game is but there’s a picture of a coffee mug on her post so if I’m guessing right, all I need to do is take a picture of my favourite coffee/tea mug and post it [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments on May 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m busy making a movie . . . of sorts.
I’m having a reunion with a bunch of friends. Most of them are now scattered across the country and two of them live in the States so we don’t get together as much as we’d like to. We’ve all known each other since we were eleven years old and [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Music and Dance, News, Politics on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Amazon Indians have been squaring up to the mighty corporations and the state in a bid to prevent the construction of a series of hydroelectric dams that are planned for the Xingu River.
The officials are claiming that the construction plans are part of their sustainable energy drive but in reality it’s difficult to see how concreting, flooding and connecting [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Offload, Politics, Pondering on May 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My son’s school had a charity day yesterday to raise funds for the people of Burma and the kids got to go to school dressed as their hero. Although the school didn’t specify, I presumed (wrongly as it turned out) that these heroes had to be of the real life, actual flesh and blood variety which meant that Bart Simpson, Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Politics on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not the inconsequential, small-time, amateur thing that’s going on in America right now. Noooo . . . this is the real deal. The proper, vital, earth-changing stuff.
Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again when the school councillors are up for re-election and my little boy has decided that he wants to have a go.
He wrote an [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Politics on May 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My daughter’s friend’s mum works for an environmental charity and part of her role is to record badger numbers. Last night she took the girls to a badger sett located in a beauty spot a few miles away from where we live.
They all waited and waited in the hope that they would catch a glimpse of a badger. [...]
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