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Blue Monday after a Blue Week
Apparently it was Blue Monday yesterday, the most depressing day of the year because it is half way through the longest month, the weather is dismal, and we receive our credit card bills. It is also a good time to get divorced because domestic pressure has mounted up over Christmas as has the general spending in the lives of 21st century consumer addicts. There ...
David Bowie – What Did I Miss?
I don't know if you have noticed, but David Bowie died yesterday (aged 69) from a long and hideous illness that we all have had contact with directly, or indirectly, through our lives. Extraordinarily, Bowie managed to keep his inevitable demise a secret, denying an increasingly mawkish media and general public of information about his health, allowing him to not ...
Worst Winter for 58 years…Not!
For those of you who follow social media like Twitter or Facebook, you will have been informed that Britain is heading for its coldest winter for 58 years, which would make it colder than the one in 1963, when Britain ground to a halt for three months. Hmmmm? Normally it is the Daily Express (courtesy of some fantasist weather sites) who spill the diatribe, but I ...
A TED Talk to Make You Think!
Some of you may have seen TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) talks on the internet before; some are very good, some are pretty irrelevant to many of us. The most recent ones of these I have seen was sent as a link to me by a friend (Kirsty) and it was as depressing as it was interesting, demonstrating that we, as humans, are terrible for not questioning ...
A Working Dog and the Cash for Grouse Scandal!
One of the things I am asked most about my pet dog is "Are you going to work it?" As it is a breed that is generally, but not exclusively, bred as a gun dog, it is a legitimate question and one that I have given minor consideration, especially as I have a landowner friend who runs occasional informal pheasant shoots that are low on participants as well as genocide ...