From the BBC News website...
Health minister Mike O'Brien has called the decision to sack John Terry as England football captain "crass".
Anything to do with health? I don't think so!
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Monday, 11 January 2010
The Big Freeze
Congratulations the people of Britain as once again we have gotten through yet another crisis. A crisis that will probably go down in history as the "extended white Christmas" or the "bloomin' 'eck it was a bit cold wasn't it" period to give its more affectionate name.
It was a great opportunity at the start of election year to see if our government could handle everything that was thrown at them, putting the great back in Great Britain. Instead they managed to do seemingly very little other than put the great back into great big cock up.
The major problem was the lack of grit available to cover the roads and pavements to stop incidents like the one that was beautifully captured by ITV News here. Surely something that should surely have been stocked up on before winter, a season normally renowned for its icy conditions.
We worried that everything was going to grind to a halt. We worried when the opposing parties spread rumours that the gas was going to run out. We were concerned when the children couldn't get to school (or just pissed off that they were on the streets throwing snowballs at our heads). We were even more angry when public transport was even more unreliable and disrupted our day more than usual.
Yet the one thing we didn't worry about was the state of our supermarkets, which leads me to think how can they be prepared more than our government. If only Gordon Brown had stocked up on grit like a prepared Mr Tesco has stocked up on Easter eggs at the start of January then we would have surely seen the big freeze through a lot simpler.
It was a great opportunity at the start of election year to see if our government could handle everything that was thrown at them, putting the great back in Great Britain. Instead they managed to do seemingly very little other than put the great back into great big cock up.
The major problem was the lack of grit available to cover the roads and pavements to stop incidents like the one that was beautifully captured by ITV News here. Surely something that should surely have been stocked up on before winter, a season normally renowned for its icy conditions.
We worried that everything was going to grind to a halt. We worried when the opposing parties spread rumours that the gas was going to run out. We were concerned when the children couldn't get to school (or just pissed off that they were on the streets throwing snowballs at our heads). We were even more angry when public transport was even more unreliable and disrupted our day more than usual.
Yet the one thing we didn't worry about was the state of our supermarkets, which leads me to think how can they be prepared more than our government. If only Gordon Brown had stocked up on grit like a prepared Mr Tesco has stocked up on Easter eggs at the start of January then we would have surely seen the big freeze through a lot simpler.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Simpleton of the week
And the award for simpleton of the week goes to.....
The Metropolitan Police for handing over a baby to a complete stranger
Click here to see the BBC News coverage.
It seems the police force should really concentrate less on telling supermarket workers to check the ID of anybody looking under 30 wanting to buy a WKD and more on checking ID when handing over a baby.
It was a close battle though, after Joe "X Factor Winner"McElderry mistook "chart" as a genre of music. This is what we've got in the charts, what the youth of today have to stick up on their walls and look up to. Bloody marvelous!
The Metropolitan Police for handing over a baby to a complete stranger
Click here to see the BBC News coverage.
It seems the police force should really concentrate less on telling supermarket workers to check the ID of anybody looking under 30 wanting to buy a WKD and more on checking ID when handing over a baby.
It was a close battle though, after Joe "X Factor Winner"McElderry mistook "chart" as a genre of music. This is what we've got in the charts, what the youth of today have to stick up on their walls and look up to. Bloody marvelous!
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Change
A famous man called John A. Simone, Sr. once said...
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Now I've spent at least 5 minutes searching Google and Wikipedia to find out who the hell this man is or why he is famous enough to have a memorable quote widely published on the Internet. I sense he is someone widely respected for his knowledge though, (its weird how sometimes you can sense something from two lines) as he has summed up my feelings right now in those two sentences above.
Looking back to the summer holidays that only ended less than a month ago, I can most definitely say that my situation was a good one. The greatest mates surrounding me, an amazing and stunning girlfriend round the corner from me and my family living by the seaside of Cleethorpes that I call home. So if you read the second sentence of Mr Simone's quote you can probably tell where this blog is going. That's right, to the situation described in the first sentence.
Now I don't want to sound bleak about university for one second while writing this, but it is the reason for such a big change in my life. My friends are now all scattered across the country in different towns attending different universities. My girlfriend will soon be not a short drive away but quite a considerable train journey away. All because Lincoln is now where I call home, (if you go by the principal of home is where your DVD collection is) for the next 3 years at least.
Yet all my thoughts have been positive so far regardless of these changes. I couldn't wish for better roommates than I have sharing an apartment with me, and I'm excited at the ever more seemingly likely prospect that I may learn something useful and interesting from my Journalism course (sure college was great, but I will only use a minority of it in life).
It's funny how a sick family pet (or maybe just the alcohol I've consumed tonight) can make you realise what you've left behind. Yet that is exactly what it has done to me today. So after much searching today through the jumbled mess that is my brain (and at the bottom of a few pint glasses) I am proud to come up with a conclusion.
My conclusion that there is a third possibility. A "good but just got a lot harder to enjoy" situation. By the wonders of social networking I am sure I will always stay in touch with my friends and nothing and I mean nothing will ever stop me from seeing my girlfriend. Yet now I get to know, love and hear from them as well as the lovely people of my course, my appartment and just general Lincoln.
So I guess good must come from all change, and I'd like to think that the start of this blog is part of the good that has come from the recent change in my life. (Also, if it pleases my course tutors too then well that's an advantage too!) I guess I must learn to stop fighting change and start enjoying it, and I know the most important things around me will never change as I can never let them. As they are my favorite people in the world, and what is the point of getting an education to get a good job and a big house and a fancy car if I don't have those people to share it with?
Ah who knew that writing could cheer you up and untangle your brain so much :).
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Now I've spent at least 5 minutes searching Google and Wikipedia to find out who the hell this man is or why he is famous enough to have a memorable quote widely published on the Internet. I sense he is someone widely respected for his knowledge though, (its weird how sometimes you can sense something from two lines) as he has summed up my feelings right now in those two sentences above.
Looking back to the summer holidays that only ended less than a month ago, I can most definitely say that my situation was a good one. The greatest mates surrounding me, an amazing and stunning girlfriend round the corner from me and my family living by the seaside of Cleethorpes that I call home. So if you read the second sentence of Mr Simone's quote you can probably tell where this blog is going. That's right, to the situation described in the first sentence.
Now I don't want to sound bleak about university for one second while writing this, but it is the reason for such a big change in my life. My friends are now all scattered across the country in different towns attending different universities. My girlfriend will soon be not a short drive away but quite a considerable train journey away. All because Lincoln is now where I call home, (if you go by the principal of home is where your DVD collection is) for the next 3 years at least.
Yet all my thoughts have been positive so far regardless of these changes. I couldn't wish for better roommates than I have sharing an apartment with me, and I'm excited at the ever more seemingly likely prospect that I may learn something useful and interesting from my Journalism course (sure college was great, but I will only use a minority of it in life).
It's funny how a sick family pet (or maybe just the alcohol I've consumed tonight) can make you realise what you've left behind. Yet that is exactly what it has done to me today. So after much searching today through the jumbled mess that is my brain (and at the bottom of a few pint glasses) I am proud to come up with a conclusion.
My conclusion that there is a third possibility. A "good but just got a lot harder to enjoy" situation. By the wonders of social networking I am sure I will always stay in touch with my friends and nothing and I mean nothing will ever stop me from seeing my girlfriend. Yet now I get to know, love and hear from them as well as the lovely people of my course, my appartment and just general Lincoln.
So I guess good must come from all change, and I'd like to think that the start of this blog is part of the good that has come from the recent change in my life. (Also, if it pleases my course tutors too then well that's an advantage too!) I guess I must learn to stop fighting change and start enjoying it, and I know the most important things around me will never change as I can never let them. As they are my favorite people in the world, and what is the point of getting an education to get a good job and a big house and a fancy car if I don't have those people to share it with?
Ah who knew that writing could cheer you up and untangle your brain so much :).
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