The seal ‘seal hunting season’ is well underway in Canada. Every year a number of hunters set off to ‘cull’ seal pups. There are a variety of reasons they have for doing this, and why Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) lets them. Every year some 300,000 infant Harp Seals aged between 2 and … More Seal Hunting in Canada

Better yet… let someone else do it! We’ve been watching a few ‘old movies’ recently and enjoying them immensely. We watched “Mrs Henderson Presents” with Dame Judi Dench opening the now defunct Windmill Theatre… great stuff if a little sanitised. Also sanitised but still watchable was “To Sir with Love” with a youngish Sidney Poitier … More Let me entertain you.

Hard as it is for me to reconcile the two images below, nonetheless they *are* both the same woman! I’ve never seen Naomie Harris anywhere other than in her role as Tia Dalma in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean” movies so when I came across these pictures I just had to add them to the … More Tia for two?

Surely being awarded $53 million was enough to last most people for life? Not so Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills who has set a team of accountants on the trail of”‘Macca’s missing millions” claiming he was worth double what was entered into court records as his net worth. But why? Invested wisely the money she … More What is it with Heather Mills?

A few weeks ago the eldest was sitting in the back of the car on the way home singing away as she does to whatever is in the radio. I like the ‘oldies’ so I tune into stations that play those songs. We were driving along listening to a song by the Police and suddenly … More Kids say the oddest things!

Arthur C Clarke was one of the best Science-Fiction writers ever. He has finally died at age 90, at his home in Sri Lanka early this morning after suffering from breathing difficulties. He was credited with a range of conceptual suggestions that later became reality, one such was the idea of  geostationary satellites which he … More Vale Arthur C Clarke

It sounds very much as though Warner Bors have at last seen the light with regards the Harry Potter films and are going to make two films out of the final book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. Their reasoning being that none of the story elements can be left out and still have the … More Twice the Potter!

Don’t ask how this arrived on my desk, but on the heels of Andrew Symonds demolishing of a streaker at the cricket finals the other week, I heard that even the sacred turf of that most boring and docile of sports… Indoor Lawn Bowls… has had it’s moment of fame… or infamy (and here I … More Whooosh… they call her the streak!

News coming in that Patrick Swayze has developed pancreatic cancer. This isn’t a particularly good diagnosis since the survival rate is extremely low, in the region of 5%. Nevertheless we we wish him well and hope he is one of that small number who make it through..