Good morning people, Saturday has come round once again. I’m just back from Ronaldsway Halt. We have a steady north-westerly blowing, but the sun is shining. I have woken up feeling good, and I hope that you have too. Of course lots of things can happen today to change how we feel about it. So far so good I suppose. You maybe a lucky lottery winer by 8o’clock tonight, on the other hand, you might be lying in Nobles hospital having been run down by the Douglas to Port St Mary bus. So, if you have woken up feeling good, make the best of it while it lasts.

Now then, yesterday I was talking about silly notices that seem to have sprung up around the place such as. “This road is impassable when flooded.” A notice did appear in Castletown but only for a short time. It was placed on a board outside the chemist on Malew Street, and read, “Keep Castletown tidy, dump your rubbish in Malew!” If you have come across any daft notices around the Island or elsewhere please email them to me to tomglassey@manx.net. Last night on the 5 o’clock news on Manx Radio, the newsreader read out that a guy had been convicted of breaking into part of a building. Surely you would need a JCB to break into an entire building! Can you now break into a bank but plead not guilty as you only broke in to the safe.

Well now folks, here is a little story for you. When I left Clatterbridge hospital on Tuesday they gave me some moisturizing cream. This is to assist with the sun burning effect that radiation leaves you with. They told me to apply it several times a day. It comes in a large tube. It was getting low so when Barbara came home from shopping on Thursday I found a tube in amongst the shopping and presumed she had been to the chemist and replenished my stocks. Before we went walking with Skipper yesterday morning I applied my cream from the newly obtained tube. It did not rub in like my stuff from Clatterbridge does and it left a thick sticky film around my forehead and face. Skipper kept jumping up and licking me and Skipper is not a licker. I mentioned to Barbara that the cream she bought was not as good as the original and left a sticky film. She was a bit bemused and said she hadn’t bought any cream and perhaps with the cold weather, it wasn’t being absorbed into my skin the same. When Ann Byrne, my nurse, called at lunchtime to check up on me she asked to see the cream I had been applying. The tube of cream I had removed from Barbara’s shopping bag was in fact a tube of Primula cheese and ham spread. Barbara had bought it because I have difficulty in eating and thought it would go down ok on fresh soft bread. Well at least it was applied in a medical sense.

Well people this is the end of my Saturday morning rant. All being well I will be back on Monday. In the meantime, take good care of yourselves. This is Tom Glassey with News at 10, on the banks of the Silverburn River.