The bank holiday weekend that has just past has been our hottest in April since 1949 with temperatures reaching 29c on Fri/Sat under azure blue skies. This kind of weather has been quite typical in the April's of the last three or four years, but it has always, rather worryingly, been followed by lead grey skies during the school holidays in late July and August. Whether this is a general trend or pure coincidence ...
It's great to see that the Royal wedding list has been released, but at the same time it is a source of huge disappointment to have not yet received a gold leafed invite, the post around here is appalling. Only when trawling through the list of guests do you begin realise that the people in this elite group of our society exist on a totally different plane. They are people you are never ever likely to come across in your life&nb...
I played 11 a side football yesterday for the first time since I really can't remember when. It was a "fun" game against Broughton under 18's. My illegibility for this game had all the characteristics of Eoin Morgan playing cricket for England, it was supposed to be a Dad's game, though my inclusion was on the back of Nick Mabey's dubious decision that I counted because I was the boyfriend of the mother of a daughter who played in the ...
Many of you may have seen on the news this week the beginning of a "New Enlightenment" named Action For Happiness. This is a select group of individuals headed up by Labour peer, Professor Richard Layard. Layard believes that it's principles will help deliver the ideals of the Enlightenment that was proposed by alleged great British thinkers including Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart-Mill who argued '...
When New Labour swept to power in 1997 the manifesto strap line was the title of this blog. Us mere mortals who could not afford the cash that allows the elite to splash out on private education celebrated in our masses about the hope that our children may be, at last, allowed to compete on a level playing field. Through the Labour years we certainly saw an improvement in dilapidated schools as they renamed themselves sports, maths or ...