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Has anyone died in the Houses of Parliament?
Anyone who has died in the Houses of Parliament will have committed the UK's most absurd offence - according to Suffolk's finest political correspondent, Graham Dines. This is one of the absurd laws highlighted on his post today following a survey commissioned by...
How can a dying dog be called art?
Animal lovers throughout the world are sickened and outraged at how Costa Rican artist, Guillermo Habacuc Vargas took a dog from the street and used it as an art exhibit, causing it to suffer and starve to death in the name of art. I'm not going to post any of the...
My sympathies for Nadine
I lay in bed last night thinking about Nadine's dilemma. I expressed my disappointment yesterday that she had switched off her comment facility, which I feel is crucial to a blog. Nadine indicated it was a time-issue, without mentioning that she had been targeted by...
Religion v motherhood
How can a mother choose religion above motherhood? It's tragic beyond belief that a young Jehova's Witness mother, aged only 22, died just hours after giving birth, having signed a form refusing a blood transfusion. How blindingly painful for doctors to stand by...
Nadine’s "cult" blog
The Sunday Telegraph waxes lyrical, it is gushingly in awe of Nadine Dorries' blog, with its frank shoot-from-the hip style of writing. She is dubbed "Bridget Jones MP". This is what the article says: Dorries has also become something of a new-media...
Oops! Wrong wedding and funeral
Hearing how a woman unbelievably went to a cremation she thought was for her son - only for him to turn up alive and well the following day, reminded me how I once inadvertently gate crashed the wrong wedding party. However, while I had not met met the bride,...
The missing – Madeleine McCann
Yet another story is published today about a reported sighting of Madeleine McCann in Morocco. A woman told detectives she even recognised the distinctive fleck in Madeleine's eye, where her pupil runs into her iris. Naoual Malhi, who alerted police about the sighting...
Lessons for fitness
It sounds very impressive to say let's make our new eco towns "fit towns" to tackle obesity, but many of these proposed facilities are already available. While it makes sense to provide more cycle lanes and safer walking routes to and from school, at the end...
Geoff’s winter retreat
I'm tempted to book a ski holiday at Geoff's winter retreat at Les Gets. Let's hope there will be more snow this winter, it was pretty dire last year. I had three ski holidays before I married and found them exhilarating, especially navigating my way around the moguls...