Plastic not so fantastic ...

I was sad and horrified to see a photograph in the paper this morning of a baby albatross who had been found dead - with 272 pieces of plastic (discarded by careless/lazy/stupid human beings) in his...

Is there an appliance you simply refuse to ever own?

With me, it's a dishwasher! I've never wanted one. I think stacking and unstacking them takes longer than actually standing at the sink washing dishes by hand - and from what I've seen, they don't do...

I'm an inadvertent spam-merchant! (Please spare the pandas and spank ME!)

I did a really silly thing a couple of weeks ago. After a couple of years of not receiving any emails for Viagra, penile implants, Nigerian prize inheritances, etc., I suddenly received about a dozen...

Do you use a hot water bottle in winter?

I love my hot water bottle, and carry it around with me all day in winter! It's cosy to take it to bed rather than having an electric blanket (which I'm scared might catch fire), and it saves...

I visited my childhood home today ...

I've been waiting for ages for England to have Google Street View - and I often check, in the hope it's been upgraded. Well, today I was SO excited to find London has been done - and Leeds, where I...

The best way to deal with a troll ...

What do you do when you know a troll has followed you and has made a new account (which is not allowed on myLot anyway)? Is it best to call their bluff and 'out' them - or merely report them and hope...

Red pens are too aggressive ...

I've just read an article whereby teachers (in Queensland, Australia) are being told not to use red pens anymore in marking students' work ... because it's too aggressive! What next? Sometimes I...

This really takes the cake ... and the ice-cream ... to another level!

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24551636-5001021,00.html This was reported in Australia today. Go figure! The family is apparently going to sue the hotel concerned for $1M -...

Disobedience ...

As I get older, I find myself increasingly frustrated with being told what to do. The world seems full of do-gooders intent on policing everything - what we eat, where we park, what we wear ... and...

We're all contributing to something horrible!

I was horrified to read in the weekend paper of something called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a swirling vortex of trash which is twice the size of the USA and consists of 100 MILLION tons of...