Today is the first of June (stating the bloody obvious is a typically British trait like mentioning the state of the weather with someone you are talking to whilst standing outside exposed to the weather). There is nothing remarkable about today though I’m sure someone will point out an interesting fact about it that has…Read more »

Theresa May is now (or at least shortly to become) the latest Prime Minister to join the ever lengthening modern PM’s who appear to have been driven by a desire to know ‘How am I doing’ rather than concentrating on the job itself Let me explain. It all started with the late but two Prime…Read more »

I have the greatest admiration for those who work in the National Health Service and respect and support the latest steps being taken to reduce the amount of prescription drugs being prescribed. Having said that I should (not really) spare a thought for all of the job opportunities that come along whenever our over-worked General…Read more »

One of the problems of living in a South Devon village during the long English winter is that it gives you time to think and reflect to the extent that you sometimes wake up in the depth of the night in a cold sweat. Sometimes it is so bad that residents of Ipplepen not only…Read more »

Pie Crust Promises Well folks they are once again up and running, scheming and back-stabbing searching for that elusive element that will allow them to rise to the top of the political pond life. No it isn’t Game of Thrones but something even more unbelievable, another Conservative Party leadership contest and yet again it also…Read more »

This week has seen the anniversary of the sinking of HMS Coventry on 25th May 1982 with the loss of 19 of her crew and another 30 injured. It was a sad end to a proud ship and even greater loss to the families of those who will never return to the United Kingdom. Perhaps,…Read more »

I’m always amazed that people who are forever advocating the benefits of this or that diet, eating meat versus vegetarianism, carbs versus protein, don’t seem so fastidious about what drugs and hence chemicals they take and put into their bodies. It may of course be that they have come to diets late after having already…Read more »