Blogging has been non-existent recently. Work took over my life for about nine months there. Little Mo left a lovely comment on the previous post,
More of this please, noble defender of Truth.
Okay, then; I will. But have I turned bad?
From Mark chapter 10, “And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one [...]

I met a transsexual person (male to female) yesterday. Afterwards, I was talking to a mutual friend and I instinctively referred to ‘her’ as a him. Well, I was informed that if ’she’ had heard me say this I would have been slapped in the face and the boyfriend would have thumped me. Don’t you [...]

I’ve been in a lot of pain the past couple of days and thought I’d better stock up on more painkillers. It’s nothing terminal.
You know how they package them in boxes of just sixteen pills these days? Well, I picked up three packets of different painkillers in the local Morrison’s supermarket this afternoon, including one [...]

I have heard about this before and expect our deeply caring government to introduce it here before too long.
Ever wondered how many calories are in your food when you dine out?
No. Never.
Or in the snack you’ve just chosen in a vending machine? Or indeed your early morning latte?
Now you’re getting silly.
Well whether you have or [...]

A belated Happy No Smoking Day to you all. This is how Leg-iron planned on marking the occasion,
I have rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco and a pack of Henri Winterman’s Half Coronas. That should allow almost continuous smoke production throughout the day. If it’s fine I’ll fire up the chimenea too.
Our local weekly paper came out [...]

I have 37 tabs and windows open on Firefox, mainly of stories I was intending to write about, so I will start with the smoking ones…
This item is simply incredible: Police roadblocks are being set up to catch drivers who are breaking the law – by smoking at the wheel of their company vehicle.
Council wardens [...]

Ever wondered why the world’s governments hate their people smoking so much? It is one of those questions which has bugged me for a few years now. They expect us to believe that it’s all because they care so much about our health – more than most of us care about it ourselves, but consider [...]

It’s a funny old game, this blogging. I admire those who can produce high quality posts day in and day out (they know who they are!), but I haven’t been able to get a post out for a whole week. I keep hoping that one day I will be ordered enough to be more prolific. [...]

It’s what I have been arguing for years – one of many things!
A man who underwent sex change surgery to look like a woman – then changed back – says the NHS should halt all sex change operations.
Charles Kane, who spent £100,000 on operations to make him look like a woman, says he needed counselling, [...]

Here we go again…
Takeaways are to be banned near hundreds of schools in a new drive to curb teenage obesity.
Councils across the country are rewriting planning rules to stop junk food outlets operating next to schools and tempting children away from revamped healthier canteen meals.
Stop right there. It was the Tories that introduced these “canteen [...]