WINTER TIME BLUES
During the past few months, my wife's 17 year old niece (Tasha) has had to live with us due to unforeseen circumstances.
Which was fine, even though she had to sleep on a fold up bed in our living room.
However, I never fully understood how lazy, untidy and generally messy she can be (I am not saying this because she is a teenager, as I now other teenagers who are now where near as bad), and this did start to put a strain within our household.
To add another issue to the situation, her boyfriend, who seemed ok, turned out to be a real ignorant git, speaking or saying hello to you as and...
GLOBAL WARMING
The past couple of weeks I have been watching a series of programs called Planet Earth (there was something else in the title but I cannot remember) and it focused on the problems of global warming, it’s effects on the worlds weather and what we could possibly do to reduce our contribution to it.
Although the Earth in it’s natural cycle tends to heat up and cool down, which is evident through the prehistoric period where dinosaurs roamed in some of the coolest areas of our current time, as they were a lot warmer then, to the numerous ice ages that we have had.
Scientists have been...
SIMON SCARROW
The books I am reading are by Simon Scarrow, and it centers on the adventures of a Centurion called Macro and his Opto called Cato in AD43 - the time when Rome decided to make Britain a province of the Roman Empire.
Brilliant book.....easy to get into and not annoyingly detailed.
