Old Gaffer

If you are a Plump Lump you are in the spotlight! I wrote about obesity the other day and now it has taken over from Global Warming as the Flavour-of-the-Week, and is throwing up the most amazing reactions on TV and in the Press. Scotland’s attempt by giving free meals to school children for six… Continue reading 22.10.07, Comments on all sorts.

Decisions can be as simple as ‘when to go to bed’ right up to ‘Should we go to war?’ A little way up the list we have to account for our decisions, like ‘was it wise to have thumped the scrum half when the Ref was looking?’. I read that Michael Martin, the Speaker of… Continue reading 21.10.07, Comment, Decisions.

Christmas has been with us, this year, since mid September, Marks and Sparks, restaurant fliers through the door advertising Christmas lunches and dinners at reasonable rates, and this week in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland, the shops are full of declarations, and the Council has erected a rather shaggy tree in the middle of a square,… Continue reading 20.10.07, Comment, Phantom Christmas.

This suggestion comes under the heading of logical ideas which are never likely to go any further. About a year ago, I wrote a piece on obesity and longevity, where I equated longevity with a healthy, energetic and sparse upbringing. I expect you will have heard of the billions to be spent in the short… Continue reading 20.10.07, Comments, Obesity and Transport.

The Non Election Panic. Shock and fear induce panic. What happened when Gordon Brown changed his mind says more about our current politicians, in all parties, which was enough to worry any sane person, because they were not worried about the state of the country, about the seriousness of our financial situation, they were worried… Continue reading 19.10.07, Comment, Get and pay experienced politicians

Fashion and global warming I was fascinated to discover that the fashion moguls in America are now consulting the scientists concerning the weather forecasts, as global warming and the changes in climate have serious effects on their business. Apparently, and I quote from the Daily Telegraph, someone called Beppe Modenese, the founder of the Milan… Continue reading 18.10.07, Comments

End Of An Era, New Policy. I have been threatening this for some time, and now it is about to come to pass. I shall no longer be posting bits and pieces of my history, nor posting on a daily basis, merely when I have something that I feel that you might like, or should… Continue reading Author’s Note

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.