Archive for December, 2007

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. - Carl Gustav Jung

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Recreational drugs; two words put together that make something that can rip your body and mind apart sound like it’s a children’s activity.

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On The Lighter Side

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Onto to the lighter side we go once more and we start in Australia where an unusual way to reduce greenhouse gasses has been found.

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Take a bow, Irish bishops!

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Fair play to the bishops! (These are not words I often utter). But for getting Veritas Bookshops free publicity with their latest statement, they deserve credit.

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Trusting the parents

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

When things break down who can you really trust? Someone you put your faith in for so long and look up to, admire and believe in only for them to take all that love and respect that you have for them and to not only reject it, but to manipulate it and also crush every [...]

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If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. - Anthony J. D’Angelo

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

So what how far does our complaining take us? In the most recent weeks we have found many things to gripe such as the way the country is run, the environment, the weather, the cost of living, the health service etc.

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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity - George Eliot

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The world can be a cruel place…there can be no doubt about that.  It is mainly the older generation that tend to have a fear of the internet and because of that it is deemed to be responsible for many problems in the world.
I would argue that there were many things before the age of [...]

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Leaders are leading?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Landslide victories and rejections of a would-be dictatorship dominated the political news this weekend.

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On The Lighter Side

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Welcome to the ‘On the Lighter Side’ taking you through the weekend with more mellow, chilled out stories to take you away from the madness that I normally post here!

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Hands off our carols!

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I am getting tired of Christmas. And it hasn’t even started yet.

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Christmas is a time for…

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

For one day in the year we go crazy and act like it is the end of the world.  We stalk shops and supermarkets buying a lot of food and gifts for people, most of the time, we would not invite into our homes at any other time of the year. I am of course [...]

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