I have 3 daughters under 11.

Until starting school the first one didn’t wear pink. As a baby many people thought she was a boy.

But when she got to school it was suddenly pink & pink clothes, Barbies & fairy outfits and more pink. Before the first fairy outfit she was very imaginative with our collection of discarded fabrics (she still is very imaginative). [read more...]

Adrian Ramsay

I want to believe that, underneath, something different is happening here in Norwich South. Regardless of your politics the phenomenal success of the Norwich Green Party has to be admired and respected. For me if it were any other constituencey I wouldn’t neccessarily be supporting a Green Party candidate. In fact at the European elections last year at the last minute I voted for Animals Count ! (sorry Rupert). It’s the sort of off-the-wall thing that I sometimes do and if it weren’t for Adrian Ramsay I might probably do that again.

And that’s why I will be voting Green [read more...]

Usually on election day voters will ignore their local voting history and vote completely differently when it comes to electing the Government – a popular incumbent re-elected regardless of local issues or a complete 180 degree change because the country wants to get rid of a tired and tainted Government. For the last 30 years it’s been Labour or Tory.

Is anything different this time? [read more...]

I mostly listen to Radio 4 – music doesn’t seem to feature much in my life currently. But I do listen to Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone on Six Music on Sundays [read more...]

Last weekend my daughter & I helped her school ‘grow a world record’. [read more...]

What more can be said about Climategate?

Since it hit the headlines I’ve surfed intensely and have become so disappointed with the AGW debate & what’s happened at CRU.

But then that’s just it. One side claims that there is no debate to be had, that the overwhelming consensus is for AGW and that catastrophic climate chaos is just round the corner, that this certainty is as certain as if it were a fundamental law of the universe, a certainty such that the use of the word ‘denier’ [read more...]

It’s always been the case – well certainly in some of the more ‘wealthy’ areas of Norwich (and I’m sure Norwich is not the exception) – that come election time you tend to get Green Party posterboards outside houses that you know are two car households. [read more...]

It’s two weeks since we got rid of the TV and life goes on. I think the only program we all seem to be missing is Waybuloo! And everyone seems to want a cuddly Waybuloo character for Christmas.

Actually I wanted to correct something in that last post [read more...]