As the media-reading/watching half the world has seen of late, Prince Andrew has a friend with dubious tendencies. The media and some others too, seem to think that if your friend is a pedophile, then firstly you had to know, and secondly you must be one too. There are times when I sigh for the …
Category: This occurred to me
Why Protest THAT way?
All over TV news at the moment are the riots by people protesting the death of a death of a teenager at the hands of a police officer. The thing that completely baffles me however is the destruction of property. The protesters are burning businesses, cars, houses, not those belonging to the officer or his …
Even Major Players may have problems…
spam, the bane of everyone’s existance. This morning I logged onto my site to add a couple of blog items and found that I had some four and a half thousand spams. Ah, well. I clicked on remove spam and a short time later received a note to say that there’d been a problem and …
NZ’s Election 2014 results – A Comment
Here lies John Jones, a polititian, convincing constituents was his mission, Of honour he’d little, of truth he’d nil, Now in this cemetery he lies still.
You’ve Won…is it worth it?
of late I’ve been invited to enter a number of travel competitions via email offers and in my magazines. Now, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, (In case you’ve ever wondered, you check a horse’s mouth (the teeth) so see how old the animal is. Horses have a ‘useful’ lifespan …
Curse You, Meridian!.
Much to the annoyance of many of us in my area, Meridian has chosen to dump two local meter readers. This is infuriating for several reasons which I thought would have registered on Meridian as being common sense. The meter readers have been doing the job for a very long time. They know us and …
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS TAKEN TO A LOGICAL END.
PC stuff is getting more and more ridiculous. I was talking with a friend about racial profiling recently and pointed out that if you take it all the way you get a woman reporting to the police that she was beaten and burgled by a man who broke into her apartment. She describes him as …
Automatic Checking Processes
I’ve heard some friends being rude about automatic spell/grammar/punctuation checkers in the past. But the one that slew me was hearing about a rightwing Christian group in the States that programmed their computer to replace the word ‘gay’ where ever it appeared, with the word ‘ homosexual.’ The problem is that the word gay, particularly …
Disgusted at the Cruelty!
Last night I watched a TV episode from World’s Scariest Animal Attacks, and it reminded me all over again of the old Victorian joke. This animal is dangerous, when attacked it defends itself. The series shows animal attacks, however most are not gratuitous but provoked. There is the man using a recently captured alligator in …
Lorna Freeman – Dead? Blocked? Or What?
There is nothing that infuriates us readers so much as a great author who quits and we don’t know why! Back in 2004 Roc published Lorna Freeeman’s first book in the Borderlands series, Covenants. It was great fantay, I loved it and waited eagerly for the next book, which arrived in 2006, The King’s Own. …