Life's about experiences. These are mine.
So, Tony Blair has finally lost a vote in the commons. It has been a long time coming but was pretty spectacular when it finally arrived with 49 of his own MPs voting against the motion. The bill that the members were voting on was an extension to Britain’s existing anti-terror laws and in particular …
You would have thought that if you were the most powerful man in the world (allegedly) that you could go to the toilet when you liked and wouldnt need to get permission. Well we now know that is not the case. Pictures from the UN Heads of State Summit show US President George W Bush …
“Bombers were all sponging asylum seekers” was the big, bold title on the front of today’s Daily Mail. I didn’t pick up the paper and bother to read the article as I had already read enough to have my stomach turned. Just to make matters even worse I noticed that in the top left hand …
Following the bomb attacks last Thursday US President George Bush, addressing an audience of 1000 FBI agents but clearly intending his words to be heard by a wider audience, said “In this difficult hour, the people of Great Britain can know the American people stand with you”. (BBC News) Well, actually that has quickly turned …
What a difference 24 hours can make. Only yesterday London was celibrating the success of capturing the 2012 Olympics and today it is rocked by a terrorist attack. I, like any other normal person, was shocked and sickened by the attacks. I just cannot comprehend just what the attackers think they will gain from such …
As already stated elsewhere I am getting back into doing my family history fuelled by my wifes new years resolution. Even better I have now found a way of combining the search for my ancestors with my love for my mp3 player! Strange though it may seem but my iRiver iHp-140 is just the thing …
So it’s that time of the year again when you make your resolutions that last the first week of the new year and then never get spoken of again… Now I’m not suggesting that my wife’s resolution is going to be short lived but it has had a profound effect on me. Helen has this …
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I think it is. The British love to drink their tea and I love it. I can’t stand coffee but tea is a real pick-me-up, but not always. Sometimes it’s the tea that’s at fault: left to stew too long in the pot, or not long enough. Perhaps I put too much milk in the …
There are some things that the internet was just made for – web logs are one of them. Another is searching out people who you have long since lost contact with and the site Friends Reunited lets you do just that. You enter in details of yourself, the schools, colleges, universities and even workplaces you …
A nice follow-up on my previous “Scots go home” post on the news yesterday. A Scotsman had been involved in a fight outside a club in Plymouth. Caught by the police and put in front of the courts the judge decided to ban the individual from England! The man concerned agreed to go back and …