We’ve got Stoptober when everyone stops drinking or smoking for the month – I gave up smoking several years ago and I don’t really drink much (unless I’m at a party and don’t have to drive). At home alone I don’t drink. Then there is Movember, an annual event in November that raises awareness and funds …
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The Snowflake generation
This was supposd to be about the Snowflake generation and it is, but first of all in my endless quest to seek out major news that is often missed by headlines of war, plague and pestilence I found this important story about the cheating scandal that has rocked the world stone skimming championships that took …
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
‘No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare’. I have quoted this before, but it is one of my favourites from Kingsley Amies. Life is pretty random – many of my healthiest friends have died young and yet some of the reprobates are still will …
When did saying no become a no-no?
When did it become taboo to say No. There is a dog lady on the internet who maintains that you should never say no to your dog. Excuse me? I have four dogs and they all know that No means No. I am in charge of the pack – I am the head bitch and they …
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire – unless you’re trying to cook chicken on a BBQ
Jane Austen famously begins Pride and Prejudice with “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”. Today I think he would want a luxury car and a large house and I imagine that potential wives would miraculously appear. Many old …
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