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Bet you don't now! I keep saying it, we are too fat as a nation! I am striving to lose weight, eating better and walking more, cycling a...

I n 1947 when India and Pakistan freed themselves from the English yoke, India declared itself a 'Secular State.' This was in contra...

I've done it again! After climbing out of my bed, washing my face and this time remembering to take my glasses of first I wandered throu...

I handed a spool into the chemist to have it developed today and saw these sweets on the counter. I have not seen these around for years a...

The men who made this deserve all the credit they get! This is brilliant. Their page is found HERE.

After visiting the dole office to discuss my plight with the pretty young lass from the 'Workstep' programme, I wandered around tow...

While wondering what illegal drug some young flash Harry in the advertising office had been shoving up his nose I watched his latest car ad...

I empathise with whoever produced this poster. The fact that it has the address 'Despair.com' on the bottom helps to gladden my hea...

This slim little volume, published in 1889, has become an eternal favourite. No wonder! The gentle humour, the descriptions of the river an...

For all the attractive young lassies who pass by (on their way to another Blog) this small bouquet of roses are for you. They would be re...

An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite s...

I am all for healthy eating! Being, what my doctor described as a "Fat slob," I understand the need for care in the diet. However ...

Today I had the first interview since being banished by the doctor all that time ago. I had expected to get a bus there but at almost the l...

Done this many times, but not from the front of a cab! Most enjoyable! I found it here!

Isn't this a great picture? What's not to love about a great big steam engine storming up the tracks belching out great clouds of st...

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has entered the Muslim debate in a big way. I wonder if he realised just how much antipathy ...

Him and her have been my 'spiritual mentors' for a wee while now, since about 1971. They, and theirs, have been like a second family...

Douglas Haig was given the unenviable task of winning a major war. Haig was a career soldier who through hard work had reached the rank of G...

Every two weeks I attend 'Workstep.' One of those government ideas to get folks like me back to work. It originated with the Royal ...

I threw off my Duffel coat and removed my jacket, I dropped my thick pullover on the floor and added the thin one to it, the fleece jacket a...