School league tables are not the answer

8:26pm Thursday 15th May 2008

SATS testing has been under scrutiny in the media in the wake of the report of a House of Commons' committee in the week that pupils countrywide have been taking the tests.

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Health warnings aren't my cup of tea

9:46pm Thursday 8th May 2008

DOES anyone else share my confusion about what's good and bad for you? The latest dilemma concerns vitamin pills. For years we have believed in the beneficial effects of supplementing one's diet with a judicious addition of all the vitamins of the alphabet, most of which cost a pretty penny (worth it however if the claims for their powers in warding off illness and engendering health are right).

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I get fit by watching Wycombe Wanderers

8:23pm Thursday 1st May 2008

I MUST own to a reluctance to engage in physical exercise for its own sake.

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It's not so ludicrous to be scared of buttons

1:47pm Friday 25th April 2008

THERE was a story in the media this week about a lady in Waterlooville who suffers from koumpounophobia.

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I've cornered the market on grumpiness

7:28pm Thursday 17th April 2008

THE makers of the television programme Grumpy Old Men/Women have finally acknowledged its contributors were far from old and (I would argue) nowhere near grumpy enough.

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I'm all in a spin after my washing machine breaks down

11:41am Friday 11th April 2008

I WAS brought up in the post war days of the boil wash and the mangle, so the washing machine is, for me, still a highly prized domestic item. You only need to have caught your fingers in the mangle once to appreciate the march of technology!

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We're used to scantily-clad women in this town

4:55pm Friday 4th April 2008

WELL, the build-up to the opening of Eden (as Adam and Eve must have also recalled) was pretty intense and feverish.

Football must be rescued from the louts

5:46pm Friday 28th March 2008

PLAYER behaviour and respect for referees has hit the headlines again this week. I am amazed that there are still those who are prepared to defend actions that are steadily eroding the respect the game once had throughout the country.

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Locking out rail passengers is not the solution

1:57pm Tuesday 25th March 2008

A FRIEND of mine who travels to London regularly at weekends, being more environmentally-friendly than I am able to be (given my working hours and the times of last trains), always uses the train.

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The show can't go on for the walking dead

4:50pm Friday 14th March 2008

I AM lucky to work in a profession where "taking a sicky" is as unattractive to the employee as it is to the employer. Not only do I enjoy my work but "The show must go on" is etched through my generation's bones like Blackpool rock.

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