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The other day i was looking at how frequently certain words are used as search terms on google. Two words i looked up were “happiness” and “depression”. The results were rather surprising…
Curiously, Australia is the country where most searches for both of those terms originate. Perhaps the place isn’t the paradise that everyone else in the world thinks it is! 
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Thinking about what the UK government are doing at the moment, i can’t help paraphrasing the ancient Hollies song King Midas In Reverse:
He’s Robin Hood in reverse
He’s Robin Hood with a curse
Where the real Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor, British prime minister, Gordon Brown, is taking from the poor to give to the rich. … Read more »
I went to Cambridge on Tuesday, to meet up with a couple of friends from Australia. Jon and Danielle and their 15 month old daughter Kael are living in Spalding, in Lincolnshire and i’d suggested meeting up in Cambridge, as it’s about halfway between there and here and the roads are good from both places.
But Cambridge turned out to be a stupid place to meet – because it’s a fair sized city and none of us knew the place! … Read more »
It’s hard to believe, but yesterday it was a year since i left Afghanistan! As usual, that year’s flown by.
The last year and a half has been one of the weirder periods of my life. Admittedly, most of my life has been fairly weird, but this last eighteen months or so wins the prize, i think.
Perhaps the strangest part of it is that i’ve only worked for four months out of that last year – and i still seem to have enough savings to get by on for another few months if necessary. I’m obviously much better at saving money than i am at spending it! 
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British people love animals and hate children. That’s a very big generalisation, but i won’t apologise for it because it’s the truth to a large extent.
The evil victorian saying “children should be seen but not heard” set the scene for the predominant British attitude to young people over the last century or more. So it’s hardly surprising that it was a British security company that developed a weapon which specifically targets teenagers. … Read more »