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My latest interest
I keep meaning to practise my clarinet more often, get stuck into the garden, read all those books I bought last year, spend more time with my mum, visit the gym more frequently and enjoy longer country walks and bird watching trips. I'm never short of things to do -...
Do you wash your feet before going to bed?
My husband doesn't wash his feet before going to bed, so he can count his blessings for not marrying this Chinese woman called Luo, who burned her husband to death for failing to do so. Can you imagine what his fate would have been if he had not replaced the top back...
"Draconian" PCT denies treatment to more than 1,000 patients
Bravo to the York Press for launching a Let Your Doctor Decide campaign in protest against a PCT vetting panel which decides if patients are to be given further treatment as part of a cost-cutting exercise. Last year the panel denied treatment to more than 1,000 cases...
Early Day Motion supports families of missing people
I met some wonderful people today, families and friends of missing people, all marching through London to raise awareness about the lack of support they receive. All trying to do their best for the loved ones they have lost. Their personal stories are not just tragic...
Marching for the missing
I shall be joining families of missing people and marching with them in London this morning. They are urging the government to listen to their poignant stories about inexplicably losing people they love, and to offer much needed support. Who knows how they cope, how...
YouTube advice needed
Does anyone have any idea why, when I download YouTubes from my Sanyo Xacti C5, it doesn't show the whole video, just the top left hand quarter? I'm wondering whether it is something to do with Windows Vista, I do not recall having this problem before changing my...
Britishness and the new Kit Kat
How can we persuade our manufacturers to demonstrate their Britishness? It seems ironic that while our teenagers are being bribed, sorry offered council tax and student fee rebate incentives if they volunteer to take an allegiance oath to Queen and country, our...
Should we have a Minister for Pensioners?
We have a Minister for Women and Equalities in Harriet Harman, and a Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Ed Balls. That covers a few chunks of our society, but there seems to be no dedicated role which cares for one of our most vulnerable groups -...
Will Civil Serf blogger be fired?
A civil servant who wrote an unflinching blog where she described her working life, the incompetences and inadequacies she regularly encountered, could now be in very hot water for publishing her views. The Civil Serf blog now seems to have been removed after it was...