Many of you may have read or heard in the media last week about David Beckham stopping and helping a motorist who had broken down on a roundabout in Hertfordshire. The press reacted to this as if Beckham had leapt out of his car with a defibrillator and revived a dying heart attack patient, almost as if helping someone pushing a car was something that only happened in the good old days when all the summers were warm, you could leave your back ...
I awoke with a start at 2.00am this morning to the sound of banging followed by an awful explosion of liquid. My first impression was that the heating system had exploded, but as I raced from my bedroom I discovered that the sound was coming from my eldest son George hurtling to the bathroom to carry out an Exorcist style vomit spraying of every square inch of the room. It was a hideous moment that required a stomach turning, intricate cleaning ...
I was reading a debate the other that claims that pop has gone posh and future working class heroes in the mould of The Jam, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and Oasis will be crushed and not allowed access to the narrow corridors of the music industry which are dominated by executives from privileged privately educated backgrounds. I really hope this is not the case, but the rise in recent years of artists such as Coldplay, James Blunt, Florence and ...
If you do one good thing this weekend, please sign the petition to save Britain's forests from a public sell off by clicking here. I have been accused by some on this Blog of writing too many political rants, decide for yourself if this is one, but this ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous plan can be nothing more than another Conservative ideology or propaganda attack against the previous Government that we have been led to ...
At 9.00am everyday at the AWE a man would announce through the P.A system the time, the day and the date before testing the nuclear air raid siren which would send a chill through my body even though it was just a dummy run and it happened every morning. This announcement also signalled when Anne would ask for any office joviality to end and for working in silence to begin. Of course any real work I had to do ...