Month: November 2024

I am relieved, not happy that after many years of rejecting the concept, members of the British Parliament have voted in favour of allowing supported dying. Everyone has their own views on this and there is no overall right or wrong position. It should simply be the right of every individual to determine when and…

There has always been immigration into the UK, that’s just a fact of life. In many ways some level of immigration is without doubt a positive thing. Balance that with migration and we are ok. The services and other resources that support our society keeps on top of it. But now we are being flooded…

PETA, an organisation who say they stand up for the rights of animals have claimed that foxes have had their “feeling hurt” by a historic pub in Birmingham being call the Sly Old Fox! What FUCKING planet are you idiots living on? By all means respect animals and treat them with kindness but I am…

Yesterday (Sunday 24th November 2024) I popped over to the end of Furlong Street in Arnold. This was the site of the engineering factory that I got my first job at way back in 1982 after leaving school and where I trained as a coded welder. The entrance going off to the left used to…

Today is feeling like it’s going to be a difficult and emotional day. There is no “special” reason for it being difficult or feeling this way, it just does!

So, the BBC are flagging up that King and Queens carnation came in at £72 million. What do people expect! It was one of the biggest events in the UK and the world in many decades and hopefully many decades to come. We had to do it right and that was always going to cost…

Still round the corner there may waitA new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them byA day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that runWest of the Moon, East of the Sun. I read this verse/poem many years ago in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. I…

I’m sure that many (if any) of you have noticed that I’ve been away from blogging for a few weeks. I’ll confess that this is entirely my own fault and maybe just a little bit of my own stupidity and over ambition. I used to use a very nice and well specked Dell laptop for…