I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
Alan is still held prisoner by militants in in Gaza since March 12th. We’re adding the ‘widget’ to the blog for people to be able to follow the progress of efforts to secure his release. We trust he *is* still alive and will be released soon. His only ‘crime’ after all was to try to … More Alan Johnston
Things are again beginning to look rough in the UK. Having lived through the worst of the IRA bombings the British are now faced with the threat of Islamic militants increasing their terror activities. Bombs were found ready to go a few days ago and now a car filled with petrol tries to ram Glasgow … More Danger in the UK
Was sitting in bed this morning and for some unknown reason I started thinking about the street in Caerffili where my grandmother used to live. I recalled that in her street alone there were several shops. A general grocer, a butcher and a fruit shop (as I recall). Then I started spreading my mind out … More Nostalgia
I only have one question about the Spice Girls reunion… why? I mean it isn’t as if they have anything remotely interesting to offer. They had nothing to begin with other than some skill in hype. The world is a better place without them. It’s not as if we never see them after all, Posh … More Spice Girls reunion.
Me move? Nah… too old and fat. The wife on the other hand managed to wangle a lunch with Julia Gillard who is the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party. She spent lunch sitting next to her discussing amongst other things, her Welsh origins! No idea what else they talked about… something trivial like the … More Moving on up.
I’ve now given the Australian Opinion forum a *real* workover! 🙂 Apart from reducing the number of boards, which I did a few days ago, I’ve now added a new series of mods which are providing (amongst other things), new user selectable themes and extra functionality!! It’s looking and feeling special again. All we need … More More on Australian Opinion
First thing this morning I was online to the iMax in Darling harbour ordering tickets to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We’ll be there on July 11th, 6:45 p.m. waiting in line ready to rush through to the ‘good seats’ 🙂 With a massive sound system, a huge screen and the … More Going Potty!
I was sitting quietly in the car waiting to pick the kids up from school, and thought I’d do some ‘surfing’ while I could. Oddly though, I found I’d run out of places I really *wanted * to visit! Something must be wrong 🙂
Ah the joys of summer in the UK… those traditional activities like bailing out the house, building sandbag walls to keep out the floods… such fun. Still at least it’s warm… 15ºC currently… sad I call it. Still, let’s hope nobody suffers too much in the gales etc. 😦
So I’ve been getting odd messages on my PDA telling me my home phone account is suspended because our account is overdue. Oops you might say… except the account *wasn’t* suspended…!! Eventually (i.e. today) I thought I ought to ring and find out what was up, not having been there for some time but when … More Oh we love chaos.
