Newspaper headlines no longer give us news but rather try to shock us to the core. They have become so sensational you have to know the code to find the real headline they have hidden because, I can only assume, plain English doesn't work anymore. We no longer have a nice sunny spell forecasted instead its scorcher like we have never known before or a heatwave to beat all records. Seriously? It was one day of sun and I barely made it into short sleeves. A dusting of snow is now known as a ... VIEW POST

I know I declared last year that I am most defiantly a Christmas Tree snob, well I think I can add to that this year as I think I am the ‘whole Christmas thing’ snob now. As I walk to and fro the shops and work I recoil in horror at decorations that just look someone icked up all the decorations. There is no other way to describe it. I am past the age where my children make cute decorations or strange wall hangings that they then bring home from school to adorned my tree and walls. So I don’t ... VIEW POST

In the UK there is 10.6 million people now in relative poverty. Another report says 23.2% of Britons are in relative poverty. Another says 1 in 5 of the UK population live below our official poverty line. Whichever way you read it there are people in the UK who are in poverty. Some of those will be self-inflicted in some way but many will be no fault of their own. Some will be children. It’s horrible to read right? So I cannot fathom how over the next two years the UK will spend a billion ... VIEW POST