Monday morning papers

Having foolishly made the mistake of reading the metro today, there were a few articles that tie in rather too well with my last post. There’s a half page article about Megan Ward who’s invented a “smoking kills” key ring which is being ordered by “anti-smoking consultancy”* GASP, and she’s also produced possibly more useful strong sun indicators. In smaller news the Scots it seems are drinking a shocking one and a half pints a day (Of course these numbers will get increasingly inaccurate as people home brew or buy abroad) . The really impressive article though is the call … Continue reading

The new puritanism

I’ve been meaning to write this for quite a while and never quite getting round to it, but the recent post over at Devils Kitchen has prompted to actually do something. If you read Devils Kitchen and Leg Iron already you can probably just skip this as I’m not going to say anything new and will be linking to them extensively, as I’m just trying to pull a load of stuff together for my own benefit. This thread goes back quite a long way especially over on Leg Irons, who seems to have predicted events rather well – though we’ve … Continue reading

Quick post whilst I defrost

Sadly problems with trains have stopped me getting to work today, and with my laptop in the office I have unexpected time on my hands so I may be updating a bit today. So whilst I defrost it seems that we may in fact be in for some global cooling and recent warming may not be man made after all, but it’s just temporary warming will resume before too long honest (hat tip Old Holborn). Update Harry’s place has a different view on the banning of Islam4UK. Also after the monumentally bad move by our home secretary to ban Islan4UK, … Continue reading