On The Lighter Side
It’s Friday and here’s a selection of mood lightening to balance out all the heavy issues that I tend to cover.
Firstly we have the story in Bognor Regis, West Sussex where a baby hedgehog miraculously survived a an hour-long 40C cycle in a washer.
The spiky creature wandered into a house and ended up resting a laundry basket. Thankfully the hedgehog, now named Persil, was cushioned by the clothes and the washer was on slow spin and half load. Persil is now being cared for at a wildlife hospital.
Staying in England, Grantham to be precise, and a couple have been living in motels for more than 20 years because they love never having to do the laundry or cooking.
79 year old David Davidson and his wife, Jean, 70, first tried out a Travelodge hotel while visiting a sick aunt in 1985 and have been hooked on the place ever since. The couple have spent around 100,000 pounds renting rooms which cost them as little as 15 pounds a night.
We get great rates because we book well in advance and we even have our own personal housekeeper. All our bed linen is laundered, too. It doesn’t get much better than that, does it?
David Davidson
The Davidsons exchange Christmas gifts with staff members and the motel, off the A1 trunk road from London to Edinburgh, is renaming the couple’s regular room “The Davidson’s Suite” and mounting a plaque in the reception to mark their 10 year anniversary in the Grantham Travelodge.
And finally, they say “no pain, no gain” in relation to exercise, but in Australia there may just be some gain for those who want to lose weight.
A group of Australian doctors have revealed their belief that people, with obesity problems, should be paid to attend weight-loss programmes. The levels of obesity has nearly in the last 20 years and it is felt that a move to help encourage people to get into shape will take a burden off the health service.
The Australian General Practice Network wants government to give the overweight a 170 dollar (103 Euro) subsidy to do something about their expanding physique.
The real issue is educating people overall into adopting a healthy lifestyle, understanding the healthy choices that they need to make and that becoming part of their lives. Not a 12-week programme where a diet and strict controls are in place.
AMA president Dr Rosanna Capolingua
Friday, September 14th, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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