sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 20th, 2008
When a competition for the kindest children was introduced to the US the winner in its inaugural year was a four year old child whose next door neighbour was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
When he saw the man cry one day, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed [...]
Nathan Thomas saved his Mum from a knife attacker.
Nathan Thomas is just 9 years old.
Nathan saw Hugh Clark stabbing his mother in their Scottish home and leapt to her defence and received the wounds pictured when Clark maliciously slashed the boy to prevent Nathan defending his mother. Clark admitted attempted murder in court today [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 12th, 2008
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling has made it clear during his Budget announcements this morning that there are grim times ahead in his opinion.
Growth expectations have been slashed and he has had to announce huge increases to Government borrowing.
The overall tone of the Budget statement was hardly what you might call upbeat and even [...]
Posted in Rants on Mar 8th, 2008
As a father I am absolutely all in favour of protecting our kids. The last thing I would want is to put my, or anyone else’s child at risk. The Head Teacher at a Clacton school has gone so far as to make this desire into an absurdity. In his efforts to [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Feb 27th, 2008
Last night I did a kinda dumb thing. I was sat at my computer catching up on the admin for my day job, and I felt the house move. It wasn’t a super dramatic shaking or anything of that nature, it was more like when someone slams a door and you feel the [...]
