A new website has been launched for the Society for the Preservation of the Manx Countryside and Environment -
www.spmce.com
Please feel free to send us your comments on Planning Applications, any environmental concerns and let us have any relevant LINKS which you would like us to include on the site.
Number 1 son is giving me the mother of all jip. I think if you could discover a hormone restrainer for young men the world would be a nicer place. Take 2 tablets sonny boy and then go and make your long suffering mother a cup of tea and say sorry. They know how to push your buttons and you try to keep the peace, you try to help and you try and try and try and STILL it makes not a jot of difference. No matter what I say I cannot get to the root of the problem and I'm beginning to think there
Tonight I preached on James 3,1-12 which speaks about the damage the tongue can do. Shortly afterwards my Vicar, Rev. Mary Railton-Crowder sent me the attached - the text of the Pope's speech which I think could be of interest to you.
I came across a wonderful website today -
www.pandora.com
It's for music fans as it only plays music. But it's different - it's your choice of music. Give it the name of an artist or a track and it makes the selection for you. Just like having your own juke box!
Top of the pops returns for me!!
Do successful politicians have principles or are their principles discarded on the way?
We hear so much throughout the world that politicians are corrupt, dishonest. Most we are told would sell their grandmother to the highest bidder. To reach the highest level of politics you must be conversant with lying and cheating - Jeffrey Archer is a prime example, Jonathan Aitken - now reformed - is one who was convicted for betraying the truth and there are numerous others who it is alleged are s
I ask the question of what global warming means as too few of us understand this complex and challenging problem. Of course even when they do we have many educated bright seemingly intelligent people who refuse to do anything about it. I was helping on the One World Centre stall at the two agricultural shows recently and without fail it was these type of people who were not really interested. It could be said they were of no earthly use to anyone despite their own inflated sense of importance
Just like to clear up something.
I had not realised until it was pointed out to me that there are 2 ways of reading my last post. Sorry for any confusion. The sad news I was referring to is not to do with my family. 2 people I know have died this week and 1 is starting treatment for the big C.
Thanks to everyone for sending their offers of help and comfort - it's greatly appreciated.
Due to sad news more than once this week, we are discussing funeral music:
Beloved wants to enter the church to 'walk of life' and leave to some rave music - I hope he's written it down somewhere, I haven't the faintest idea who it is - some geezer.
I want a good tearjerker to go in by - what kind of a funeral is it if you cant have a really good public blub and noone minds? I think something hauntingly beautiful by Enya should do the trick. And I am definitely going to be disappearin
I went to the PAG meeting at the Empress Hotel last night. Stuart McCudden, President of the Chamber of Commerce was the guest speaker. He said the Chamber was not anti-politician just anti- untrained and incompetent politicians of which all of us know there are too many!! Nice chaps but why are we paying them £50k p.a. - my remarks not his!
Mr McCudden went over the speech he made at the Chamber's 2006 AGM reiterating his misgivings about some of the current MHK's - self publicists,chara
I’m not the most experienced with forums etc and only really use the internet for research. But, when I signed up to manxforums.com I noticed this section and had long discussion with my ‘very smart’ brother to find out what a blog is! After he eventually stopped laughing, I now understood what it’s all about and have decided to give it a shot. Oh life was so much easier when I was a blonde but, since returning ‘au naturalé’, I can’t use that as an excuse anymore!
The time has come in my
We've had good news from the hospital, the lump has not got any bigger since the last scan which means it is almost certainly scar tissue. We are celebrating quietly and with great humility - if anything this year has taught us it is that. There but for the grace of God etc...
I am taking number 1 and only son on a Uni trip to Ingerland, dahn saaath tommorrow. Cannot describe to you how important this is, that he likes the place and they like him. I dont want him to be a drifter, finding
Those of you who are still here may remember my little adventure earlier on in this blog with the lounge lizard from accounts in my previous workspace... well I saw him today in the gym. Nearly died. What a wonderful place to restart my campaign against one of life's total twonks. heh heh
I am still on the juice, doing pretty good if I say so myself. Positive vibes man, positive vibes. Nothing quite like the jolt of motivation you get when the scales go down for the first time in a decad
Sermon preached recently on Revelation 4,1-11.
Difficult topic on dreams and visions.
Saints EP 11.6.06 Revelation 4,1-11 CF/EP
In the name of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
All of us have probably had a dream, which we remember. It could have been a
nightmare or something about falling or even your teeth falling out! It is because
dreams are so diverse and sometimes bizarre that many people dismiss them as
of no particular importance.
Derbyhaven is in the news as the result of a planning application from Mr Ferguson Lacey to build 21 dwellings on part of the golf course. The residents oppose it as they believe it is a breach of a deal which they thought they had reached with Mr Lacey not to build more than one house - a mansion house - on the site.
Attached is my letter to the Appeal Inquiry Chairman supporting their position.
19th June 2006
The Planning Appeals Inspector,
Government Offices,
Douglas.
Dear
So, that's TT nearly over then - another two weeks of madness come to an end, and so does my time as temporary DJ in some well-known local pub/nightclub. Was fun, as it usually is, especially German Night - makes me smile every time
Playing DJ is weird somehow - started last Sunday, expecting a rather quiet night - as if.. Packed house, and me on the controls - whoever said that being a DJ isn't a physical job should try it on a busy night - you'll be sweating, I guarantee... I only do tha
Instead of being a 'godbotherer' I've become a 'juicebotherer'! Trying to convert everyone to juicing. I've been on the Juicemaster's turbo juice programme for 3 weeks and when I stood on the scales in the gym yesterday the arrow went DOWN!! For the first time in eons! I'm so happy there's no telling what I may do! Absolutely brilliant. If you're feeling fair fat and nearly 50 like me, nip down to the shop and get a copy and just do it - its working for me and I feel great. (Not on commissio
Amazing - totally, truly, fucking unbelievably amazing!
I casually clicked on a topic tonight, to view the last post by 'Politician'. In his post, he linked to a Guernsey forum. Nothing too unusual with that as a rule but I lived there for 8 years and despite my best efforts, I had yet to find an active forum over there to get in touch with people I used to know.
Anyway, I clicked the link and had a look around and a particular part of the forum caught my eye so naturally, I clicked it a
SO! What a great few weeks it's been. Carl arrived about 3 weeks ago and we have been having an absolute blast. Been zipping round the country visiting people and places, and having a laugh along the way. When we were in Rotorua, Carl decided he wanted to do a Zorb. Now, for those of you who are not familiar with Zorbing, its where some crazy arse person decides to chuck themselves inside a massive see-through globe and hurtle off down the hillside going round and round, upside down, or you
So few thoughts come to me that I think when one does I should perhaps make a note of it. My wife has just handed me a quote from Ecclesiastes 7:12 - I have no idea why but presumably she thinks it might be of benefit , and so if this is true, why not share it with a wider audience. Anyway here it is for what it is worth:
"Wisdom is a shelter, as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this:
that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor."
I have just been reading the current issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal . The Leading Article details the problems of funding Herceptin through Primary Care Trusts in the UK and speaks in particular about Ann Marie Rogers who took Swindon PCT to the Appeal Court to force the PCT to pay for this medicine. UK Government policies covering NHS prescribing is in a mess and so patients are in a lottery according to where they live as whether or not they can obtain life saving treatment.
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