Anti political correctness campaign

There really should be a fight back by most sensible (or even insensible) people against the corrosive effect of the political correctness agenda that is insinuating itself into almost every aspect of our lives. I include in this the terrifying rise in surveillance of ordinary people. Some of this is necessary but in so many [...]

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Checks on adults supervising children

I must join the ranks of the voices raised against the plans and the new quango set up to bring tighter controls and background checks on people who have more than a passing contact with children other than their own. I do not believe there are paedophiles lurking behind every tree although I concede sensible [...]

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Husbands and wives

Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

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David Bissonette
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.
Socrates
By all means [...]

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Joined the Twitter generation and trying to work it out

Image by luc legay via Flickr

I have been a trifle late getting on board the Twitter bandwagon. I am not sure I can be bothered with Facebook or MySpace. People say they are good for business but I think you’d have to spend an inordinate amount of time tweeting and pasting and commenting etc to [...]

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Socializer – free automatic social bookmark submission

Socializer – free automatic social bookmark submission.

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The Marrakech Express – bring on the camels

Even writers need a holiday. With a certain regret at leaving a warm keyboard, especially at a time when my US agent is shopping my new novel (hopefully first of a series) ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ and I am getting interest from actors to come on board my proposed TV drama ‘The Forest’, I revisited [...]

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Naked writer at the pool

I don’t know why (I do really) the word ‘naked’ seems to jump start views of this blog but I’m grateful for it.
I’m not big fan of political correctness so my mind was full of interesting stuff as I made my way to the changing room at my local swimming pool.
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Roadblocks to retirement

Trials of a reluctant motor home buyer
There is a certain lure about it. I mean the prospect of sliding into the driving seat of a two-litre plus motor home like a modern day supercharged nomad and heading out on a voyage of discovery – free to go anywhere you like and take as long as [...]

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Wish I’d never seen Pierce Brosnan naked

Well, not really but my post about Pierce Brosnan appearing in ‘Pucka-Ri’ at the Edinburgh Festival (which I co-wrote) has been the most popular post on this blog.
It was nothing special.

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Send me your scams

I’ll bet I’m not the only one who gets inundated with spoof emails from someone claiming to be an African prince down on his luck or the beneficiary of a will who just needs some schmuck to help him move six million dollars out of the country. These scams come thick and fast and I [...]

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