No, You’re Alright…Unless You Make Me Fat!
Someone asked me the other day if, as a single parent, I could relate to the McDonalds advert where a man is trying to ingratiate himself to a difficult teenage lad who is struggling to come to terms with him moving in to his house? The simple answer is no on several counts. First of all, I have no interest in McDonald's food and secondly, I wouldn't start plying it to a child who I may be potentially living with for the next ten years. I ...
It’s Going to be a Dog’s Life…
My life with domestic pets has, at best, been a chequered one. I have owned lots of pets but generally ones that have the brain span of the Chelsea FC "Benitez baiters" who are soiling the name of this great sporting nation with their witless, Neanderthal like protests against the "interim manager" of their football club. My first animal was a Guinea pig, the obligatory maiden domestic pet of a small child, it is an animal that seems to live ...
Grey Days, Sport & Pubs…
I often wonder how a country where the weather can be so grey and unforgiving could possibly have been responsible for so many exports around the world. This island, cut off in the North Sea, has been responsible for the most recognised spoken language on the planet, it has produced scientists such as Alexander Fleming and Isaac Newton, explorers like Cook and Walter Raleigh, writers, Shakespeare and Dickens, musical culture from The Beatles and ...
Mumford & Sons and all That…
I have to say that I only saw a few clips from the Brits on Wednesday night as I was out for much of the evening, though from what I did see, it all seemed all a bit tepid. This had me wondering whether this was a case of me getting old, or simply that music has become dull, over produced and easy to consume, a bit like a McDonalds Happy Meal. Reading various blogs and online press reports, it seems that opinion is very much divided as to ...
20% Tax on Fizzy Drinks-That’ll do it!
I listened to a phone in on Radio 5 live yesterday that was based around obesity and a price hike or tax on fizzy drinks to deter people from buying them. I am guessing they mean things like Coke and Fanta that are often well stashed with sugar content, but in my mind the suggested 20% increase is like pissing directly into a force 9 westerly. Every year a new crisis blows up about obesity blows up, but every year the (obesity) numbers seem to ...