Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly’s recent comments comparing women in western dress to uncovered meat, and men as cats unable to resist the allure is still creating controversy. One of the important quotes from his sermon reads: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in … More Does Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly need therapy?

The kids school had a ‘Gala Day’ today, which loosely translated into a large ‘garage’/car boot sale which in the UK would be a sort of large scale open air jumble sale I suppose There were assorted ‘attractions’ like an inflatable obstacle course and bouncy castles, a couple of fire engines with accompanying fire-personnel (who … More Rumble Jumble

I started the diet again on Wednesday. Might have been a bad move just before my birthday… but I suppose you have to do it when you have to do it. Maybe if I waited til next week I’n not have the willpower… no idea… not waiting to find out either!! Anyway, I recently found … More Back on the diet.

Hitler used to inject himself with amphetamines (speed) five times a day?? That might explain a lot of his behaviours! Explain… not excuse.

Back at last, I’m back at last… oh my lord I’m back at last! So where’ve I been? Nowhere really… but my Toshiba has. Can’t remember if I mentioned it, but it’s been in for a service after the cooling fan broke down. Today I went to pick it up, added an extra 256 Mb … More Tish Tosh.

Yup… I’ve finally reached the penultimate number in this decade… will I be here to reach the next one? Watch this space… I make *no* promises… but I *do* hope I make it 😀 Actually ‘happy birthday’ has been right so far. Got up this morning as usual and forgot totally… then wife and kids … More Happy Birthday to me…!!

There are tales galore about spiders biting peoples backsides when they used the old outdoor dunnies. Sort of made sense in their way. The old earth latrines attracted flies… so were a good source of food for spiders… so they made their webs where the food comes from… well you get the drift. Today we … More Remember the song about the spider in the dunny?

One of the problems with living in paradise is that you get a little blase about things in general, for example we *expect* the weather to be perfect! And of course it is mostly. And yet we complain constantly. It’s too warm, too cold, too windy, too dry, too wet… whatever. I think maybe the … More Nice day again.

A first in infamy… Iceland has decided to reopen it’s ‘legal’ whaling business by killing a protected endangered species. Words fail me.

My father is 86. He was born in Highgate, London. He left in order to take up employment in South Wales before the war… and married my mother at (roughly) age 22. From then on for the past 62 years of so we have a record of who he is, where he’s been and what … More Long ago and far away