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 Family, Moments, News, Offload on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was astonished when I read this article. Obecalp is a placebo designed for children. Jennifer Buettner who’s company produced the drug said . . . “When drugs are not needed and the patient still thinks that medicine would help, we believe that the placebo effect can work,”
This is a staggeringly stupid comment! No, Jennifer, when drugs [...]
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, 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, 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, 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 Family, Moments, Mother Earth on May 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Anna’s View
Posted in Blogroll, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Species are dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame. The Independent
Yes, the human footprint is to blame according to the Living Planet Index. The report, produced by WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Pondering on May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We took advantage of the weather this weekend and worked on our garden and patio area and as I laboured away, many a random observation and idea popped into my empty head and you’ll be thrilled to know that I’m going to share them all with you so here goes:
Ponder number 1: To build or not to build [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Music and Dance, News, Politics on May 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Hubby was having a clear out and he had put this little table on the rubbish pile but I had other plans. This table has history in it. It’s been in our family for generations five years and has served us in a variety of ways. It’s been a nature table, a picnic table, a shield from a [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Female Issues, Humanity, Moments, News, Politics, Pondering on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The sensitive issue of abortion has come up again. MP’s are seeking to get the upper limit of 24 weeks lowered to 20 weeks.
Most people have very strong and definite views on abortion. And there are those who aren’t against abortion but feel that the upper limit of 24 weeks should be lowered to 20 weeks. Presumably, their belief [...]
Posted in Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Politics, Pondering on May 4, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I can remember being at high school when the nuclear war issue was hot and the cold-war paranoia was buzzing. There was much talk of four-minute warnings and fall-out and nuclear shelters that only the rich and the powerful could afford. Margaret Thatcher said that all local councils should build one and my father, who hated her, would fume at [...]
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