Category: General

Don’t Believe a word they say dear!’ was something my grandmother said to me regularly. She was a tough old bird with the heart of a Raspberry Ruffle – you would have liked her. Yet, clearly not new, I still am taken off guard by the sheer level of current deception, Take waiting times for… Continue reading Randon Thoughts 24, Dont believe evertyhing!

I come from a family that thought it was wicked even on Christmas Day to drink more than one Sherry. I was first introduced to real alcohol when I joined the Navy and I never turned back. I find the subject fascinating because it has so many facets, there is the pleasure of drinking, there… Continue reading Random Thoughts 23 , Booze

The government’s proposed massive rebuilding programme doesn’t make much sense to me for a number of reasons. Have you, recently, tried to get a plumber, an electrician, a painter or a builder to do a small of even a big job for you? So, in my innocence, I wonder from where the government is producing… Continue reading Random Thoughts, 22

This is the last post on global warming in whatever way you interpret it. Recently I wrote a piece and sent it to a nephew, one whose opinion I value, who has tracked the jungles of South America and the slopes of the Himalayas looking for, finding and naming new species of flora. I asked… Continue reading Random thoughts 21, The Last Post on Global Warming

To those of us who were brought up in a Britain containing so few immigrants, that many of us had never seen any, or only those in dock areas or Greater London, it comes as shock then, to discover that there are gangs of up to 40 youthful immigrants from the African continent, who are… Continue reading Random Rhoughts 19, Importing trouble, Allegedly.

Let us start off with a disclaimer, I’m neither a doctor nor a scientist, and my information has been taken from the Daily Telegraph. What I am doing is questioning the statements made from my own experience. In simple terms the article says that Cancer Research UK, states that drinking two large glasses of wine… Continue reading Randim Thoughts 18, Wine and Cancer, Plus

With people in such dire straits, up and down the country, with their houses and their lives in disarray as a result of the flooding, it seems ludicrous to write what I propose, but it is nonetheless, in my view fairly important. During this past week there was a programme on television which I did… Continue reading Random Thoughts 17, Judcial Correction Urgently Needed

The introduction of targets by Tony Blair was, I believe an insult to the intelligence of the nation. We all have targets, some are very simple like mowing the lawn, which we allow ourselves to put off if we have a good enough excuse. In business, five-year rolling plans and some other targets have been… Continue reading Targets, the labour Spur to a better Britain

This is not a bleat about those earning prodigious sums, but a plea on behalf of those on the other end of the scale. Living as I have in so many different societies, from life in the British Raj, through rural Britain, working-class London, to the rarefied atmosphere of Northern Ireland, I have seen such… Continue reading Random Thiughts 15, Has Society lost its values?

One thing is certain, he is absorbed with his image. That is totally clear every time he opens his mouth on television. One thing I’ve failed to understand, but then I’m stupid, is why he is going to town on the poisoning of a foreign spy, by another spy. There is no shadow of doubt… Continue reading Random Thoughts 14, What is Brown Thinking About?