Lack of public toilets…

Lack of public toilets mean older people have ‘nowhere to go’, says a press release by Help the Aged.
However, it’s not just older people. I developed ME/CFS in my early 40s, and part of the package is bladder urge incontinence, which means, in the words of the Bob Dylan song “If you gotta, go now, [...]

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Financial crisis…

Having lived on the poverty line for many years – state benefits – I’ve been relatively unaffected by the ongoing crisis, except for my fuel bills. I never thought there’d be an advantage to having no money and no investments!
I try to avoid politics here, as well as religion (mostly), but the Teflon Shadow Chancellor, [...]

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Ross & Brand…

I was asked why I hadn’t posted anything about this affair – Sachsgate, as the media have, inevitably, dubbed it. Simple, they’re a pair of twats who are beneath contempt. What, you want a more reasoned response?  OK. . .
While, these days, I listen to neither of these plonkers (my tolerance of inane and crass [...]

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Celebrity crucifixion…

There’s an excellent article by Charlie Brooker in the Guardian online, questioning the morality of the public trashing of minor celebs who have the misfortune to be in physical and/or psychological meltdown, with the focus on the current victim, Kerry Katona.
Brooker says “And tossing insults and brickbats is all part of the fun, especially when [...]

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Standard engines for F1?

Oh bugger! I have a serious ethical problem – reading today’s paper I found myself in agreement with Max Mosley.
To cut costs, Mosley wants to introduce a standard homologated engine to F1. Ferrari, who have a wholly unacceptable level of influence over the FIA, have threatened to withdraw from F1 unless Mosley backs down. To [...]

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Micro-greens and sprouts update…

An unmitigated disaster all round.
There is very little information available for growing micro-greens, so I drew upon my gardening knowledge. After all, what I’m doing is just growing seedlings to a little beyond the pricking-out stage – how hard can it be? And back in my veggie days I sprouted seeds and beans with great [...]

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Who’s afraid of the dark?

Well, British Summer Time – pause for hollow laughter – ends tonight, and once again people are whining that the nights are going to be dark (yep, who’d have thought that would happen…), and wouldn’t it be nice if we kept British Summer Time all year round, and just called it British Standard Time. And [...]

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The Mediterranean Diet – does it work for everyone?

The British Medical Journal has recently published a study that has looked at the effects of adherence to a Mediterranean diet, which is claimed to reduce death-rates in a variety of illnesses.
I have a problem with these claims, in that these are not research-based data but obtained by meta-analysis – research by computor. I’ve read [...]

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The price of food…

My grocery shopping, today – for one person – hit £30 for the first time. OK, I have spent more at times, but today there were no treats, no alcohol, no impulse buying, nothing but essentials for the coming week – bread, meat, vegetables, fish, cheese, milk and other dairy items, plus maybe £2.50’s [...]

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Atheist advertising campaign…

Writer Ariane Sherine suggested, in a Guardian Comment is Free blog last June, that an atheist bus campaign would provide a reassuring counter-message to religious slogans threatening non-Christians with hell and damnation. By last night, the fund, set up to provide posters on 30 of London’s bendy buses for a month, had hugely exceeded expectations. [...]

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