Small earthquake tremors detected off the coast of Yorkshire. Some people remain worried!
Author: Mike Cunningham
Only in Arabia!
I can just about see, or perhaps understand, the thinking behind an Institution such as the Guinness Book of Records. I mean, if you do something really spectacularly dangerous, you really want everyone to know how bloody stupid you really…
The phrase which really says it all!
If there were 945 cars burnt-out in England, Scotland or Wales on any weekend, never mind on New Years’ Eve, there would be six-inch-high Banner Headlines on all the MSM front pages, Parliament would probably be recalled for the Prime…
…For Auld Lang Syne!
A hug from a pair of arms still young, but with a potential strength from one only eight years old: a whispered ‘Thank you Grandad’: smiles from faces which life has yet to mould: a tiny hand gripped my thumb:…
Alas, with grief , ‘wor hearts are riven!
Sometimes I am moved to place somewhat appropriate words to illustrate my antagonism towards those pictured; I thought I would illustrate an image from a current gossip / news story. “The miserable drug-raddled git wouldn’t sign up for the ‘Bent…
“All hands aloft; prepare to go about!” “Belay that order!”
The usual, almost ritual, condemnation of Israel’s actions and policies regarding the West Bank settlements seemed to be proceeding as normal in the UN Security Council, but suddenly it emerged that the Obama Administration were considering an abstention, instead of…
Quotations from a Holy Book!
“And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will…
Lest we forget………a lot!
Just a reminder of what we have agreed to leave behind. The thumbnail pix is of the launch of an Ariane5 rocket, with a payload of four Galileo GPS Satellites. Galileo is the name for the European GPS-funded system, which…
Let Freedom’s voice ring!
Most of us who either read any newspapers, watch any channels on the box, or interest yourselves at all with the dual themes of Democratic Accountability and of Press Freedom, will have heard of the Leveson Report. It was a…
A message to the NHS….Get Stuffed!
Is it just me; or are there other sentient beings out there who just bloody dislike being patronised beyond belief, just because we have collectively past the sixth decade of our existence. We know how to earn a living, some…
Ready-Use-Locker of Life
Having espied a spare thirteen milliseconds from my daily grind, or round, or whatever; I thought I might make a list of the items essential to my mental well-being which I have stashed close to hand in my expanded living…
and through the last door on the right.
……and the number of patients not treated in A&E within four hours is one of the highest ever. NHS hospital patients in England waiting more than 18 weeks to begin treatment have risen to their highest levels in almost seven…
News, or whatever turns you off!
I used to do a weekly roundup of the news which either piqued my interest, or was sufficiently off track to be entertaining, amusing; or of the type which made my blood curdle; so thought I might serve up a small…
Mr. Speaker; I have to report that….
..after the count, ‘The eyes have it’! Courtesy The Telegraph
Hail, and farewell!
RIP John Glenn: The last of the few. “I guess the question I’m asked the most often is: “When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?” Well, the answer to that one…