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Let’s live dangerously and eat eggs for breakfast
I'm not going to crack any yokes about the latest loony advert ban about going to work on an egg on the grounds that it does not promote a balanced diet. If only kids did eat that healthily for breakfast, cereals are full of so much sugar. And my husband has been...
The missing – Stepha Henry
I came across a blog post recently which expressed concern that less publicity was given to the disappearance of young black people. Janice Lowery has started a site to help give these missing children publicity. One of the cases she highlights is that...
How can you spot a paedophile?
One of the most chilling aspects of the Suffolk-based internet paedophile case is that Timothy Cox looks so normal. In fact, he seems a nice looking, ordinary guy from this pic. As we know, he was an evil, cunning and vile abuser of children who...
Payback time for Brown’s Labour foes
It's a damning start for Gordon Brown's premiership. Has any leading politician been mauled so publicly by his own members a week before becoming Prime Minister? In tomorrow's Channel 4 documentary, The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair, former ministers Charles...
The missing – Alex Mexisville
I learnt about Alex Mexisville after spotting a poster of him, along with other missing young people, while waiting to catch my return flight home from Thessoloniki Airport yesterday. Among them was a poster of Madeleine McCann. I saw no similar posters when I...
Taking my mother down Memory Lane
Later today I shall be taking my mother Loula on a trip to Northern Greece, on a trip down Memory Lane, to re-visit her childhood places, during a time when Greece was ravaged by civil war, as well as World War 11 . I just adore being in Greece. I love the...
Celia has sadly gone too…
Celia and Sue were the best and worst of friends, they were drinking buddies. Celia told me when we visited Sue in hospital that if Sue died, she would soon follow. And now she has. Only I had no idea it would happen so soon. Celia was quite rightly given a lengthy...
The missing – Lee Sheppard
Lee Sheppard has a beautiful son he has never seen who was born after he "vanished into thin air" four years ago, aged 26. The New Zealand rugby player had been at work on a late shift in Cricklewood, London during a snow...
MPs and blogging
I shall be contacting all our MPs who are blogging shortly and questioning them about the reasons why they started and their personal experiences, if thy feel it has helped improve two-way communication. I'm also interested to know whether they feel it could mean the...