Published on June 18th, 2010no comments

I’ve read most of James Patterson’s novels in recent years and have particularly enjoyed the Alex Cross series of which Pop Goes The Weasel is the second. Read on to discover what I think of the novel..
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Published on June 18th, 2010no comments
I am only here now to write this because twelve years ago an alarm woke me when a fire started in my house. This is my story of the fluke that helped me to survive.
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Published on June 18th, 2010no comments
Last week I wrote about shopping for a new cooker and coming home with a television. I went shopping again this week but what did I buy this time?
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Published on June 14th, 2010no comments
I passed my first year of stopping smoking last month and as my bank account was growing nicely I decided to treat myself to some new electrical items. I didn’t really enjoy my shopping experience but I didn’t go home empty handed.
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Published on April 12th, 2010no comments
I was making the rounds of my blogs and clicked on this one and my IE browser froze and stopped working. The same happened 3 times so I swapped over to Firefox. When the home page appeared so did a McAfee security warning which told me that it had detected and deleted the JS/Wonka trojan.
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Published on December 28th, 2009no comments
Any parent with two children who are close to each other in age will know just how frustratingly difficult it can be to take a proper family outing whether it be a day out, trip to the park or shopping.
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Published on December 19th, 2009no comments
Every year millions of people all over the world make New Years Resolutions, but an awful lot of those promises are broken pretty soon. The most popular resolutions are to stop smoking or lose weight, both difficult to do in their own way. This year I will be making an Old Years resolutions and this is:
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Published on December 13th, 2009no comments

Who would have thought a few months back that this 18 year old fresh faced singer from South Shields would win the 2009 X Factor final? Not me anyway. After the auditions I sort of favoured Jamie Afro, that was based on his great performance of Sex on Fire.
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Published on December 12th, 2009no comments
“Giving up smoking is not easy” I replied to my friend who lives in blissful ignorance of what it is like to quit smoking having never smoked a legal tobacco product in his life.
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Published on October 12th, 2009no comments

I get impressed with simple but good inventions and I’ve always thought that the egg timer was a great invention, simple but ever so useful. Eggtimers have been around for many years but if the idea was invented in this day and age the inventer would make a fortune.
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