V8 Milk Trucks

And Italian Restaurants My Dad was a milkman. For more than 40 years he was a milkman. What drove him mad were the folks who "cut him up". He took it very personally. He simply could not see that a slow-moving milk

China

Strangely out of touch? Somewhere along the way I got lost. Or, the world has gone one way and I went the other – rather like the road less travelled. The media is now and has been for some time deluging us

Sea Change

Election Time Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. - Shakespeare

All My Best Ideas

The Great Mistake-Maker - Me. I distinctly remember reading a book review in the Sunday Times on 18 May and thinking: someone has stolen all my best ideas again! I remember thinking: I must remember to put this

Been There - Done That - Seen It

Education? Two Sunday Times articles, seemingly unrelated, caught my eye. Ray Lewis is “Pied Piper to the wild boys”- is, apparently one of the Tories favourite black activists. His programme of “tough love'

Chavs and Chavistas

Dewsbury?  More like Screwsbury! Someday I’ve got to get to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Some day, but hopefully not too soon. Dewsbury must be the Chav City, Arizona! Judging by the shenanigans surrounding the

The Americanisation of England

Not much new, then? A bumper issue of the Sunday Times this week provides a thematically interesting perspective on some current issues. First, on page one is the story, “Children's oath to Queen”. Lord Goldsmith

Ipswich Murders - A Conclusion?

Inevitability Because the Suffolk murders stopped when Steve Wright was arrested and charged with the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich in December 2006, it was always going to be difficult for his defence team to

Archbishops

Scimitared Rowan Williams seems a nice guy. He is, by all accounts, very clever and very godly. These are qualities that make him eminently qualified to be the Archbishop of Canterbury. They are not qualities

Bail

Magna Carta - Eight Amendment Gary Weddell was out on bail and he (apparently) used this opportunity to kill his mother-in-law and then commit suicide. See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3282898.ece

Doh! Independence Imprudens

Crazy gas prices? I like to keep in touch with what's happening in the old home town, Independence, Missouri. It makes me feel closer to home and to that end the internet is a god-send. No better way to keep in touch

Least Favourite Meals

School choices - dog's dinners?? Some philosophers are born, some are made and some just happen. I may have just made that up – though it is, of course, a paraphrase of a famous diktat. My old mate and part-time

Walcheren Malaria

European malaria, I can not believe it! I like reading. I will read almost anything, but history is a particular leisure read. In the Wroxham library I found a book called, Redcoat by Richard Holmes. Richard is a well-know

New Year's Resolutions

What's Great in '08? Time to make some resolutions to improve things in 2008. I have some good ideas. One Lose weight. Always a popular choice, but, hang on, is it really necessary? Does anyone ever ask

Darwin Awards

The Bad and the Ugly News that John Darwin, seemingly the architect of a scam to extract money from an insurance company by pretending to be dead, has been remanded in custody should come as no surprise to enlightened