If I want a diet drink, I’ll buy a diet drink. If I don’t, it appears I’m stuffed. Bought a can of RWhites (I think) lemonade (actually a colleague kindly bought it for me as I had run out of money so resorted to scrounging) only to discover it was stuffed with artificial sweeteners. Yuck! [Continue]

Am I the only one who remembers this? Spitting Image song to the tune of “Golden Brown” but with words changed to suit Gordon? I was amazed I never heard it when he took over as PM. I can’t find it on You Tube either, despite loads of other Spitting Image songs being on there. [Continue]

…with being disenchanted. Life is good. I know I like to have a grumble and moan here, and that’s the point of the blog, but really, I’m sick at tired of petty grumbling (he complained). Sometimes living here on the Isle of Wight we forget just how lucky we are to live here, and instead [Continue]

I was going to rant about car drivers not giving way to cyclist travelling uphill, but see the Weekly Gripe has beaten me to it. (Great title by the way!). I share their grievance. Travelling along National Cycle Network 23 I had the same problem the other day. In a car, stopping to give way [Continue]

Went to a Changing Tunes concert last night. Wow, was it good, and boy, did it reiterate what a mess our prison system is (though I have to say no-one from the organisation was critical of the system per se, it was just apparent in my thoughts afterwards, based on some of the things said [Continue]

In a bid to deal with the rising threat of terrorism, gun crime, grafitti, bunking off school and all the other evil things that would be rampant on our streets without our politicians keeping us safe, our Tone has hired storm troopers to patrol the capitals streets. You can see this one using his stop-and-search-for-no-flaming-reason-at-all [Continue]

…Golden Brown is really starting to scare me. BBC news article sets out some of his views on education. Yet more tinkering at the edges, and essential lots more of the same, generally the sort of things most politicians spout. My concern is just how wedded “education” is becoming to “career” “aspirations” [Continue]

During a walking tour of Breda, I discovered the local authority there have decided to reopen the harbour, what a good idea. But impossible of course, since it was filled in in the ’60s and an underground car park built across much of it. Yet wait, this is the Netherlands, engineering watercourses is a way [Continue]

Posting live now, having neglected my “paper blog” for a few days, I have lost track of some of the things I want to whinge about. Before you breathe a big sigh of relief, I can still remember what some of them where! I have been watching drivers of different nationalities during our recent travels [Continue]

Just finished Dan Kieran’s book “I Fought the Law” which I stumbled on in WHSmith at the Port of Dover, having realised I was short of holiday reading. Great book – worrying and liberating at the same time. Think it may be one of those which has an impact on life – not quite sure [Continue]