Category: General

Immigrants According to the press, 2.2 million immigrants arrived in this country in the last five years. I must admit that I am finding that I’m dealing with foreigners, mostly on the telephone, but also in the shops and that to some extent, I have a language problem in so much that being slightly deaf… Continue reading 17.10.07. Comments

In the way that folk accepted the steady bombing of the cities during WW2, as something that if hated, had to be inured, the majority of the Northern Ireland population felt the same way during the 30 odd years until very recently. The Story Of The Ludicrous Gift  I have referred before to the ‘liberation’… Continue reading Belfast, ’69 in order, The Troubles, Faces of the Same Coin.

The government is letting our dairy farmers down. I could have been forgiven for thinking it was another April the first joke, but in fact it was another idiotic suggestion, rather than directive, from a government source. They want us to start drinking Long Life Milk instead of fresh milk, to save the planet. They… Continue reading Comment, 16.10.07, More GlobWarm Idiocy, Milk.

Addressing the rise in serious, Alphabet diseases in the DHSS. This is not, repeat not, a criticism of hospital staff, but of management and the Government. Recently I had a small surgical operation, and had to return to have the stitches out. At one point, the nurse attending me had a problem, and sought the… Continue reading Random Thoughts 47, DHSS

Recently I wrote about a young woman, who had a driving licence stolen, and presumably as a result of the information therein, criminals not only emptied her accounts at banks, they used her credit card accounts and opened other accounts in her name. This caused me to try to understand how this had come about… Continue reading Random Thoughts, 46, ID Cards, Computer Fraud etc.

I can’t help being an irascible old so-and-so, because I am driven to it by coming across so many things I just don’t understand, and cannot see the reason for. Recently I accidentally came across a new version of Robin Hood on TV. I think probably all my life, as a childish romantic, I have… Continue reading Why The Idiotic Trends In Entertainment?

I simply could not believe the behaviour of our politicians, knowing they were in the public eye, acting like children in the playground, even worse than usual. There was a ‘Ya! Ya! Mine’s bigger than yours,’ element that I found absolutely absurd, throughout the whole debate during Prime Minister’s Question Time. After the Prime Minister… Continue reading Random Thoughts 45, Westminster at Playtime

The incredible circus, which has been built up around what I believe to be an unnecessary inquest on Princess Diana, must be hell for the Princes and her close friends. It would certainly not be at the request of the Queen, and so one assumes that the press, with the paparazzi, have engineered this for… Continue reading Manipulation Generally, also in Politics

The appearance of a flyer on my front doormat on the first of October made me realise how very much Christmas has become degraded. A local restaurant was advertising Christmas lunches and dinners at reasonable rates, presumably to kick off about now, I haven’t checked because it is not Christmas yet. Christmas for the elderly… Continue reading Phantom Christmas

Irony In High Places Stormont is our seat of Devolved Government in Northern Ireland. It is there our elected representatives determine what is good for us. There are some, with an extreme Republican brief, who wish to and are allowed to conduct their affairs in Irish, to the annoyance of the majority which either has… Continue reading Odds and Ends, 4