Many of us whilst having a meal and watching the television at the same time will have felt a sense of guilt when an appeal for financial help is accompanied by images of a starving pot-bellied child somewhere in Africa covered in flies and drinking from a pool of water that an equally emaciated cow […]
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At this year’s Isle of Man TT Races five men were killed in horrific crashes including a father and son team, the son was only twenty-one years old. These tragic killings (for that is what they were) because they were not accidents made me weep with both pity and anger. Those who I have spoken […]
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They say you shouldn’t believe all you read in the newspapers and a while ago there was a report that certainly made you wonder. It appears that some police forces are to recruit children as mini police also dog walkers, criminals and prostitutes in a cut price effort to fight terrorism and other crimes, (don’t […]
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If you have a mind to call me a grumpy old git then be my guest, I couldn’t care less. I am expecting at any time to meet someone on the street opening and closing their mouth like an oxygen starved gold fish, probably as a result of watching one for a few minutes. The […]
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I was talking to a young lady recently who wore a pair of jeans that exposed her knees, she told me that they had cost her more than normal jeans and some designer ones could cost up to three hundred pounds and were the bee’s knees of chic, can you imagine there are people starving […]
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Gluttons for Punishment Imagine falling asleep on a glorious summer’s day and not waking for a very long time. The last thing you see as your eyes close is the beautiful weeping willow tree in the garden. Eventually you are awakened by the sound of a Christmas carol sung by an unseen choir. As you […]
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Reflected in that equine eye I see Something only peace conveys to me. Where swallows skim and buttercups prevail, And gads are drifted by a swishing tail. Where larks ascend then fall to meadows green In this lush place where God’s own hand has been. I gently stroke that twitching chestnut skin, And palm a […]
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There are some radicals in our land who believe that one day their flag will fly above Downing Street, whether you believe this or not it appears to be on someone’s wish list. Many of our churches have been closed and converted to places of worship by other faiths. Judging by the attendance at recent […]
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There are incidents in life that not only shape your character but shape your future too, often in a profound way. Recently whilst watching my flock of homing pigeons flying in a cloudless sky apparently for the sheer joy of it, I had a flashback to my youth. My dad was a keen pigeon fancier […]
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