I have spent the best part of a week back where my parents live and also the small town where I grew up. The town is nothing special, in fact it is slightly famous for being a depressive place to live. Not much to do in the way of entertainment if you are young, several …

In the past I have often wondered how far a loving subject would go if a mother knew that her child had comitted a hideous crime? Today I read of a woman who has been harassed by her local comunity for telling the police of her two children who had been bullying the local community …

Sometimes when life has battered you into near submission you need to escape and draw breath. Go to a place that feels as part of you as the land. Remove yourself from society so you find out who you are again and focus on your goals in life. I am heading to ‘that’ place in …

It is not every so often that journalists exhaust the dictionary with their praise of human achievement but in the last week this has been the case. ‘Brilliant’, ‘Sensational’, ‘Superb’ are just many of the accolades that have been praised upon US swimmer Michael Phelps and his achievements in Beijing. During my life I have …

I have always been fascinated by mythical or mysterious creatures that have spawned legendary tales for decades. One of which is Bigfoot. So my ears somewhat pricked up when I read that two American ‘Bigfoot’ hunters had not only seen one but caught it and have put the corpse in a freezer (picture above, I …

These are taken from a book I am reading about some bizzare ways people have died In 1993, Sipho Mdletshe was declared dead after being in a road traffic accident in South Africa and then spent two days in a metal box in a mortuary before his cries alerted staff. Afterwards his fiancee refused to …

Whilst eating in my local pub today I had the fortune of picking up someones discarded newspaper. As I read about the ongoing Russia/Georgian war and the Olympics I turned to page 33 and read ‘The Entertainment’ section. There was a rather tedious two page article about Lindsay Lohan wearing leggings and how she has …

Do you know something that really makes me angry? I’ll tell you. Everyone has their right to walk past a homeless person. There is no obligation to give money to someone you do not know. I know that even in the past I have been more than charitable and given out money to a homeless …