By the way, who wants to know more about home birth?

Mother Nature can be a cruel and harsh mistress. Here’s the reality of live in the wild, as caught on film. WARNING: if you’re squeamish and like to think of furry animals as being cute an cuddly, don’t watch what follows.

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Now for something a little more controversial.

This mystifies me enough to be included under the Bloghuh heading and no doubt it will evolve/degenerate into a post of it’s own.

Why do people talk about saving the planet? Why? Just why?

These days we’re inundated with messages and instructions to recycle, conserve energy, reduce carbon emissions and be more environmentally friendly. All in the name of “saving the planet”.

Well heads up! The planet doesn’t need our help.

Did you know that the ice caps are melting? “Oh noes!” I hear you cry! Well it’s true. They are. But guess what - 6 million years ago, the ice caps as we know them didn’t even exist. And you know how the world is getting warmer? It ain’t as hot as it was 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, just before the dinosaurs died out. And that was the cool bit of that particular epoch.

Ah ha! But what about the CO² levels in the atmosphere, caused by all the crap we’ve been pumping into the air for the last 200 years? It’s noticeable, that’s for sure but guess what? CO² levels? Higher 65+million years ago.

The thing is that whatever we can throw at the planet, the planet will carry on and survive. We, on the other hand, probably won’t. Game over, thanks for playing and let’s see what you could have won!

So next time you’re doing your bit to save the planet, just remember this: you’re not doing it to save the planet, you’re doing it to save yourself.

When you finally want to write about something in your ‘blog, you will be unable to access your site for some inexplicable reason. When you have access to your site, you will have forgotten what it is you were going to write about (although that may be in part due to the hangover I have today)

Introducing a new series of little observations about the modern world which shall henceforth be known as “The Facts of Life”

While it is true that egg mayonnaise and sausages go well together as a sandwich filling and that sausages and mustard are also an acceptable combination to put between two slices of bread, egg mayonnaise, sausages and mustard does not work. Fact.