Following the dry winter and the exceptionally warm March, everyone is now dragging out the unused raincoats again and this weekend will see an arctic plunge of air that will have The Daily Express penning headlines about ten foot snow drifts that will kill pensioners in their sleep. This, of course, is just a couple weeks after they laid claim, without substance, that the British spring would be hotter than any other in history. If you had ...
I went out on Saturday night with Diane and our friends Pete and Mandy in what turned out to be a really good laugh as we watched a band (whom we knew the members of) playing a pub gig in a strange town in deepest Hampshire. However, it was an evening that could have so easily gone wrong as I teetered on the brink of danger with a local guy who was still seething with pent up anger courtesy of a last minute equaliser scored by Portsmouth against ...
My old friend Colin sent me a link the other day to a website called 38 degrees, it is an excellent site that makes it easy to register your signature against intrusive or corrupt legislation. The most recent link informs us of the latest attempt by the government (Labour tried it a few years back) to implement a law that assumes that we are all guilty of being sex offenders or potential terrorists until being proven not guilty.
This is a law ...
My dad had his 80th birthday at Heath End Village hall last night and far from being a cup of tea and a few cakes, it turned out to a night of vintage Lethaby drama that would have had my late mother cursing from the heavens that she had missed out on this epic occasion on the 9th anniversary of her passing. I really did think that everything that could happen in this bonkers family of ours had happened, how naive could I be?
The evening ...
Because I anticipated vitriol, I decided not to comment on Fabrice Muamba until I knew he was going to survive, but now it is obvious he will, I can ask this question. What is it with the British public and their obsession with the prospect of having someone to mourn? Of course, as it happens, Muamba let his adopted nation down last week by having audacity to survive a massive heart attack courtesy of, not a miracle as some are stating, but ...