UP TO 65,000 DEATHS EXPECTED FROM SWINE FLU!!!
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NATION “WILL GRIND TO A HALT” AS SWINE FLU VIRUS BITES!!!
So squeaked the media, the papers especially, as the “scourge” began to make its presence felt on these shores. And the papers – like the virus itself – [...]
There are many things to like – love, even – about Norwich. Its architecture. Its history. Its size. Its relaxed pace of life. Latterly, its schools, and its low crime rate; Norwich is a great place to bring up children.
But I think what I love most is its location. Stuck in the middle of a [...]
Much frothing and foaming over MPs’ expenses of late. But one has to wonder why everyone is acting so surprised and outraged. Being an MP today is no longer a calling; it’s a job, pure and simple, and like any job, expenses incurred in the course of carrying it out should be reclaimable.
Nor, actually, do [...]
I’ve always loved words.
Curling up with a good book is, to me, one of life’s greatest pleasures. My own writing is nowhere near the standard I’d like it to be, but the process itself I find hugely satisfying.
But I’m beginning to question effectiveness of writing as a form of communication.
The irony is that we’re all, [...]
“I need more women in my life,” I said to S the other night as we were having dinner together.
I observed her closely for telltale signs that pursuing this conversation further might be unwise – a clenching of the jaw, perhaps, a tightening of her grip on the steak-knife – but saw nothing other than [...]
Man, time flies. Can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last submission. Only one reason, really – I got busy. Still am, I’m happy to say.
So what’s been happening since we last talked?
Well, I had a birthday two days ago. Thanks, you’re too kind. 47, since you ask. For me? Oh, you shouldn’t [...]
The Jade Goody media circus shows no sign of slowing down.
Yesterday events reached some sort of apogee with Goody’s marriage to fiance Jack Tweed. Next up is the christening of her two sons, scheduled for next week. There are also tentative plans for further interviews over the coming weeks, depending on Goody’s health. With one [...]
Against my better judgment, I find myself morbidly fascinated by the ongoing, and latterly tragic, saga of Jade Goody. I didn’t watch the Big Brother series that made Goody famous, but it hardly mattered as she was all over the media anyway. Newspaper after newspaper – of every stripe – queued up to tell us [...]
My new career in football management (Monday Musings passim) is edging ever closer to reality. That’s to say, it’s been upgraded from swivel-eyed-ravings-of-a-delusional-madman status to merely so-far-out-there-you’re-more-likely-to-spot-Elvis-running-a-newsagent’s-in-Peterborough level. Progress in the right direction, I’d call it. I narrowly missed out on the Norwich job (”narrowly” in this case being open to interpretation) – though I’m [...]
As a music lover growing up in the 1970s, the majority of records in my then-burgeoning collection (records I still have, and play, to this day) were legitimately bought. I would quite often tape them, either for my own use (tapes being more convenient than LPs) or to give to friends. Just as often, said [...]