“It comes to something, when you’ve got to be told by the bloody media and Twitter or whatever – to remember to be kind to someone,” a grumbly old sod just said to me. This person has a point. But on the other hand, for so many of us life today is super-duper fast. We […]
Mandela – Connecting with the past…
In the late 80’s I was a very politically aware teenager. But it was more about the miner’s, Thatcherite travesties, the threat of student loans… BBC coverage of Soweto uprisings, talk of apartheid, of an old chap who had been in prison for some god-awful amount of years because he felt he was equal to […]
The Ownership of Our Poo Is Changing!
How did I miss this one? Nice letter today from our Water Authority (happens to be ‘Yorkshire Water’). Informing my household that from 1st October 2011 the govt is changing current legislation so that MANY of the UK’s sewage pipes will be moving into ownership of the water authorities. Apparently it has been a bit too […]