Woolly Socks and Worn-Out Shoes

This guy is a good argument against giving prisoners the right to vote.  I would have said that prisoners should be given the vote if they are voting for a government which will still be in power when they are released.  To be frank, I'm not so sure now.  Not all criminals are like this moron, I know, but he's not exactly the best spokesman for their cause, is he? There are a few people I've talked with who believe that a jail sentence should take a criminal 'out of the game' for a while, and that includes civil rights.  Well, I don't know, but I'm certainly leaning towards dismissing their right to vote. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11686283

So, a friend has been lying about Alex then telling her friends not to say anything.   So much for best friends.   Alex has gone to bed tonight wanting to get this day over with.   I can feel her sadness even though she’s at her dad’s tonight.   It’s like her light has been dimmed by this friend who isn’t a friend and by the lies coming from someone she thought she could trust. And her friends are so important to her.   She needs to trust them.   She still has other friends she feels she can trust, but I know she’s hurting.   I’m hurting. I never had friends like Alex has so I don’t really know what she’s going through.   I just know how much she wraps her emotions around them and how strong her need for them can be.   She’s been through so much; her friends are the light in her life.   When one of them betrays her like this – and it is betrayal – she feels vulnerable, and she’s reminded of how fragile her happiness is. As a mum I c...

There's something very peculiar about Borish Johnson on a bicycle. http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2010/10/boris-johnson-is-not-a-normal-cyclist.html

Usually weak when alone, insecure or jealous, the bully will ensure that there are plenty of people around him to back him up when he needs them to.  These people will usually be like-minded and take pleasure in seeing another person being made to cry, or worry, or made to fear.  I suppose it must make them feel a little less insecure seeing someone in a worse state than they are. But I'm not a psychologist.  I just have more than my fair share of experience.  And it looks like my daughter's going to be taking something similar into her adulthood.  But she's a strong person.  Perhaps made stronger after enduring those who would use very thin excuses to pick on a person.  In this case, it's a picture of her about four or five years ago and she's wearing glasses.  Yes, pathetic, isn't it?  Still, children are children (even those in mid- or late-teens who would be very grumpy if they were labelled 'infantile' or even 'juvenile') and perhaps a...

Well, after googling and checking and chatting with people, it would seem that this google analytics thing has come about because of a trojan planted in my computer.  As a result there is what seems to be an expanding set of websites that I am unable to access with Firefox. This leaves me at the mercy of Internet Explorer.  Deep joy.  It might not be a problem for those of you who enjoy the full benefits of high-speed broadband in built-up areas, but out here in the sticks it can take quite a while just for the mouse-click to respond on IE, let alone loading pages. A new computer is on the cards, now.  I have taken advice on various methods to get rid of this trojan, but to no avail.   So, tired and weary, I've got to go and do some shopping.......  YIPEEEEE  a new computer !!!  :) 

OK, so I'm on Internet Explorer at the minute.  Fact is, I daren't go on to my preferred Firefox browser to access my blogger account because I'm constantly redirected to something called google-analytics.  It's a new thing - well, at least on my computer it's a new thing.  I'd never accessed it, subscribed to it, googled it.  I hadn't even heard of it until about five days ago when my computer was having real trouble loading some pages.  As it turns out, I was being redirected to this google-analytics thing, eventually giving up and clicking off the tab after about three or four or five minutes or more. Has anyone heard of it?  I'm sure someone has.  At first I thought I had some kind of bug in my comp and have spent a few days now looking for a new computer to avoid this whole hassle pushing me headlong into a nervous breakdown. But I don't think it is, to be honest.  It's not as bad on IE as it is on Firefox so I'm resigned to having t...

My daughter reckons I'm  punctuation Nazi.  Whether that's because I insist she writes 'should have' instead of 'should of' or whether I'm more than a little irritated because there's no such thing as an apostrophe in her writing, or perhaps it's because of my increasing discomfort when she tells me that her school isn't focusing so much on its pupils' knowledge and understanding of the English language as they are on whether or not they're wearing their full uniform. I can't teach her; so far as she's concerned, if the school's not bothered about it then why should I be so concerned? It's not true in my daughter's case, I know it's not, but whenever I read 'should of' or the word 'your' where there should be an added apostrophe and an 'e', it leads me to believe that the author is perhaps a can or two lacking from the six-pack. It's not fair, is it, that I should be so judgemen...

palaver [pəˈlɑːvə] tedious or time-consuming business, esp when of a formal nature all the palaver of filling in forms It took me something like half an hour just to get through all the google-analytics.com delays.  Even still, not sure whether I closed them down to try again in a different browser or not. Still, I'm up and running (I so, so hope I'm up and running).  I need a rest now before I can even focus on my first real blog. God Bless Google and all who have to put up with her!