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Silent Sunday
I’m bewildered by the world – when will common sense prevail?
With signposts like this… Have you seen the news this week? Yes. What’s going on? The more I see, the more I do that “this is crazy, what’s the world coming to?” shrug thing. It started well enough with the unflappable Alex Crawford reporting on the rebels’ arrival in Tripoli. She provided the best coverage […]
Are you a miser of sleep or a squanderer?
Baroque to the future – win an excuse for some me-time
A DAFTS idea, but it might just work…
Brothers in harmony! Cue drums, trumpets and fireworks. I’m going to introduce the child food reprocessing system to knock your socks off. It’s called DAFTS the Dinnertime Automatic Food Transfer System. Actually it’s the brain-child of my marvellous sister and she’s a health care professional, therefore, knows stuff. Let me explain the idea behind DAFTS. […]
Twitter – break the news, not hearts
Twitter is a fanatic source of quick information. This evening, for example, the Panther of News and I were jolted from our Sunday night bubblegum telly by a tweet about rebels streaming into Libya. With one eye I watched Alex Crawford of Sky give her compelling and courageous report from the streets of Tripoli and […]

