We have good news from Lewis Lodge to share with you today!

In the grand scheme of things, it won’t even register a blip on the global seismograph; but for us, and particularly for Simon, my husband, who is the recipient of the good news; it’s the result of an awful lot of hard work, year in, year out, for over a decade.


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Your weekly round-up of mad stuff happening out there on planet Earth.

Holding back the Flood in A&E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13773512

News has broken that Manchester Royal Infirmary was inundated by a flood of drunk women over the last few days, following Take That's concerts in the city. Apparently, it comes as a huge surprise to the people who ( Read more... )

Well done Andy Murray!

Yes, it doesn't happen that often, but British Tennis player Andy Murray has won Queen's, the traditional warm-up event for Wimbledon in a couple of weeks time.

As he's British and it's such a rare thing for us to win anything if we're stood up, (the joke at the Olympics is that we're really good at winning things where we're ( Read more... )

This week, Rachel gets unnecessarily excited over the Welsh Assembly and wonders if Pippa Middleton's bottom will have its own Top Trumps card...

Is it a bird? is it a plane?...

I got excited earlier this week, when it was announced  on Twitter that the Queen was opening the new session of the Welsh Assembly and that it had 'new powers.'  I ( Read more... )

I've lived under a rock for months, I seriously have.  Life has got so busy that my only exposure to any source of news has been the BBC Radio2 5.30am news, which I've then killed before Vanessa Feltz has time to open her mouth.  I can't remember the last time I sat down and watched a news bulletin, read a newspaper, or really had a clue what's ( Read more... )

With very great thanks to silentsgirl  for giving me the biggest laugh in ages.

If this is real and not a Photoshop job, then this is going into my all time top ten funniest things.


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This morning, in the usual flurry of tweets, from friends up and down the country on their way to work or already at work, there was one from Jon:

Another day another fatality on the Waterloo line - epidemic. Luckily I dragged myself out of bed to catch this train, next 3 are cancelled.

The details of the incident are here, and it comments that the ( Read more... )

I've written a new article over at WordPress.

Time to let the lights go out on nuclear power?

Just like we all woke up in the 1980’s to nuclear weapons being a generally bad idea, I personally think it’s time to admit that nuclear power is now also a generally bad idea.  When they’re working fine it’s great, they tick along very well not causing ( Read more... )

After four months of absolutely fabulous downwards progress, my body has decided that it's not going to play ball this week and we've hit a bit of a plateau.  I'm pressing on for the moment, but if it continues we might need to think about changing tactics to kick start it again.

It was lovely to see Pip  ( fireflies_uk ) again today.  The sun being out and ( Read more... )

I've said this before, but I'll say it again.

There's a humanitarian disaster unfolding in Libya, a country which is being run by God knows who, seeing as Colonel 'Gadfly' apparently has no 'position' to resign from.  In Christchurch New Zealand over 200 people are still missing following the earthquake last week.  Rupert Murdoch is taking over the ( Read more... )