Month: May 2008

Hi peeps, With apologies to McGonagall and anyone with a reasonable command of the English language. 😀 With the world’s worst poet now on the go,I fancied my chances through will and ego,It’s not that I’m short of a post or such stuff,and writting these words is increasingly tough. There’s nothing I needed to get of my chest,Indeed come Friday we shall be all at rest,It makes sound like we’re all gonna to die,Not really, just sat at EMA, waiting to fly.Two fabby weeks stretched out in the sun,No mobile, no internet, no contact no-one! I guess I should stop before this gets tired,It’s gone on too long – certainly more than desired.All that remains is to say toodle pip!If […]

Hi, A bit of a whimsical post this evening… 🙂 On a certain day of the month, a group of men will be thinking about less than typical male behaviour. They’ll be thinking about putting an outfit together. Will this go with that? Is it too warm or too cold? In the early evening, they’ll be running a bath or shower before a slow and very thorough shave. A bag will be packed and they’ll make their way to a community centre in north Nottingham, but this is no shirt & tie or sports event. Hellos will be said, smiles given before they retire to a room to change. Mirrors will be set out, control-ware is put on (Ed: no […]

Howdy folks, Earlier last month the BBC ran another episode of the series ‘Child of our Time’. For those of you not familiar with the format, the programme has followed a dozen or so families in the UK since the birth of their children in 2000. The children are from a variety of backgrounds and most of them are 8 or so now. A recent episode was about gender; a subject frequently in mind for some of us. 🙂 Various tests where set up although the tests where more demonstraitions of how certain children interact or to show how boys and girls differ. In one test, the children where shown six blocks with words written on them. They were asked […]

Howdy y’all, Summer has truly arrived, hasn’t it? Well, at least in the Midlands it has. The sun’s been shining and the Great British public has stripped off due to the warmth. Gone are the coats, jumpers and boots – replaced by cropped trousers and strappy vests. Luckily, apart from a few offenders (wink), this trend is restricted to just the women-folk. 🙂 Today’s lyric is a song title – Sting to be specific, but I’d accept Eva Cassidy too – although I could have gone for ‘And it was all yellow’ from Coldplay…. but I’m not a fan. (Ed: *ahem*) Ummm? Oh yes. So why the line? Glad you asked 🙂 The fields around the southern parts of Nottinghamshire […]

Hi, Some days the writing muse just isn’t with me. Early today I was pondering what I could write about but nothing – yes, nothing – sprang to mind. Maybe creativity is like sleep: you can’t force it. It wasn’t until I’d got home and played with the kids that things started to click into place. In my son’s room I could hear him giggling with joy as his Mum tickled him and got him ready for bed. In my arms, my baby daughter was slipping into sleep while I fed her a bottle. I know parents love their children, it’s wired into us to ensure survival. Perhaps then this is why the news of the man – and I […]