How to beat unemployment

According to the paper I’ve just finished reading, the UK is currently overrun with fresh-faced school leavers, all clutching their 9 A* A-Level results and having to fight with 50 other over qualified graduates for the chance to work on the tills of Primark.

Long live the King, the King is dead

Michael Jackson’s death will no doubt go down in history as one of those moments when everyone remembers where they were when they heard – just as when the first man walked on the moon, the Berlin Wall came down, Princess Diana died and 2 planes flew into the Twin Towers.

I’m sniffing, I must have Swine Flu

Call me completely irresponsible, but my daughter needs to learn and I need to work, so she’s not camping out in front of the TV all winter with a box of tissues. She’s had a flu jub and can wear a face mask if need be. So unless she suddenly grows a curly tail and starts to squeal, she is going to keep going to school.

The madness of OAP mums

Take Elizabeth Adeny for example, who at 66 is set to become the oldest mum in the UK. This lady, who is by all accounts a ‘wealthy divorcee businesswoman’, has obviously decided that she wants to have her slab of baby shaped cake and eat it.

An email from President Obama

This morning, as I do every morning, I sat at my desk, opened my email and waited to see what tripe flowed into my inbox….But this morning threw up something a little bit unexpected. An email from the most powerful man on the planet – President Barack Obama himself.

Baby killers

Two weeks ago, an 8 year old boy in the US state of Arizona murdered his father and the lodger. By all accounts he had ‘methodically planned the killings’. Part of me thinks how is this possible. How could a child, not even into double figures, reach such a mentally and emotionally unstable place that they would even think to do such a thing…

Off with their heads

I had to sit down with my daughter today and have a serious talk about ‘Stranger Danger’. I hate that I had to do this, not because it’s a subject I don’t want to broach, but because it’s a subject I shouldn’t have to…

What IS on the end of your fork?

Of course I have been aware of the food scare crisis going on in China over recent weeks, but I admit it was only last week that I really sat up and really took notice…..

Choice isn’t always a good thing

It is an accepted fact these days that our everyday decisions are now dictated to and in many ways controlled by marketing companies and the hypnotic hold they seem to have over us…

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Life for Sale

A Perth based man, Ian Usher is currently making headlines around the world. A UK born Australian Resident, who, after emigrating to Australia six years ago, is currently selling his enitre life to the highest bidder on Ebay…. (click header to read the rest)