Former Conservative Junior Health Minister, Sir Cecil Bastud, has become the latest low profile has-been to throw his weight behind the Brexit campaign.
Sir Cecil, the heir to the Bastud Pork empire, shot to prominence in 1984 when, as a junior health minister to Margaret Thatcher, he produced 'The Bacon Report', claiming that pork based products provided a cure for diabetes.
Diabetes Prevention : Bastud and the Bacon Report
Bastud, ...
At the bottom this page you will see a video created with my own fair hand showing a picture from each day of the wonderful month of May, probably my favourite month of the year in Hampshire as it is a time when everything bursts into life.
I do these little things for my own pleasure and my dad likes them as well as he doesn't get out so much these days. However, feel free to enjoy it if you wish but if you are not interested, my feelings ...
Even by my pitiful standards the start to the cricket season has been one of abject misery as I stand at the crease like Stevie Wonder with his boots tied together, utilising a boomerang as a bat.
When I started to play again about ten years ago, I resembled a one-armed man trying to kill a snake in phone box, but remarkably, sometimes it came off, with a few chaotic scores in the 30's satisfying my renewed lust for the most complex of ...
I had an accusation from one of my friends today that with all the countryside walking I am doing I am in danger of turning into *Jack Hargreaves.
Well, to counteract that argument, let me tell you that last weekend I went to that there London, or the 'Big Smoke' as it is sometimes (but admittedly not often these days) referred to.
I am quite lucky really, as I have a good friend who lives in Barons Court and he is always willing to put ...
The latest trek on my dog walks of Hampshire took me from the National Trust car park in Stockbridge (called The Lion's Den) then along the Test Way, before joining the Clarendon Way and meandering on to the pretty village of Houghton.
So far, the few parts of the Test Way I have completed have all been wooded lanes with only fleeting glimpses of the famous old river; however, the consolation is that the trees at this time of year ...
