Off to the States for a couple of weeks

I will try and get a blog or two posted in the meantime

Number One Son

He has zipped off to the land of the free or the USA as it is otherwise known, to make the final arrangements to marry and settle there. The rest of the family are to follow in a few days for 2 weeks of celebration in various guises, By the time we get back, the Tartan Tax Thief will be ruining the country (not a typo)!

The RAF suffer from political correctness this time

Some cretin at the MoD has decided that painting scantily clad young ladies on the nosecone of RAF aircraft, a practice that goes back to at least the Second World War, will cause offence amongst the female members of the Air Force. What a load of cobblers. I cannot imagine many women who are prepared to sign up for the armed forces are such wilting flowers.

Maybe the RAF should practice precision bombing a bit closer to home, say Whitehall for instance!!

England Rugby. Slightly better news

At least England won the Churchill Cup (a sort of cut-down World Cup for 2nd XVs) yesterday, in a fairly pleasing fashion. The main thing was that a lot of the players in the team are very young and should have a long England future ahead of them.

Trouble is, I do not expect that most of them will be up to speed in time to defend the World Cup later in the year.

England cave in again!

After watching the second Rugby international match against the Spingboks, I am once again left frustrated and angry. For the first hour England were very good and were even leading at half time.

Then someone noticed, "Hey guys, we are playing well and making a real game of this. We should not being doing that. Start playing like drains again, as we are supposed to!"

Still there were only 3 soft tries this time. South Africa were never going to lose, but the way England caved in in the second half to let them create another cricket score was pathetic!

Oh the Calamity of the oval ball

England's Rugby XV did not do very well over the weekend. They got thrashed by the Sprinboks and are likely to be again. I know it was effectively a 3rd England XV, due to club commitments and injuries and there was no way England were going to win, but there was no excuse for the amateur mistakes that led to most of the Springboks tries.

We can only hope they are better next weekend, but I fear the worst!

It is probably Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's fault. Most things that are wrong with England are!

New science for old

Many years ago and for a very long time, all scientists, including all the famous ones, believed in the Phlogiston theory of Combustion. You can find details of that at Timelinescience.org, but essentially it supposed that when something burned, it lost a substance called phlogiston. The proof supplied was that wood was lighter after it had been burned.

It was only when people like Lavoisier and Priestley started doing accurate experiments and determined that many substances were heavier after being burned that this was shown to be totally wrong. Without going into details, it was thus that oxygen was discovered and the phlogiston theory was disproved.

What has this got today, you might ask? Well, a so-called scientific theory based on incomplete facts and flawed evidence that many so-called experts subscribe to and that has a huge bearing on how we organise ourselves, does this sound familiar?

Answers on a post card (or a comment) please!

Political correctness gone mad (again)

The latest foray into the world of political correctness is by the Yoof Justice Board (whatever the hell that is!).

Apparently gang crime isn't. It is "group-related crime". You cannot call them gangs because it might upset the little darlings.

According to the OED

gang: noun. an organized group of criminals or disorderly young people

Get real, you idiots

I have another blog

I have begun to get the hang of this blogging lark and I have created another blog at MikeyP at My Telegraph that I will use exclusively to rant about the charlatans that would rule us.

I will not stop moaning about them here, but in a more general way. I still hate the buggers!

We had the big party

The party to celebrate Number One Son's forthcoming marriage to his American fiancee we a roaring success, and we all had a great trime. We managed to get some of his old school and university friends alaong and even his school sixth form tutor.

We could not go on too long as his fiancee was booked on a flight back the the USA on ths Sunday morning, but she enjoyed meeting all of our family and they enjoyed meeting her.

Next time we see her, it will be for the biggie in Hawaii!