This week I picked up this sensible idea that came from a Green Alliance think tank.
It goes something like this. Abolish VAT on household goods, but introduce a ‘GREEN TAX’. This could work by having little or no tax on environmentally friendly goods e.g. recycled paper. Items like novelty fridges to keep […]

Now that entrepreneur adventurer Steve Fosset is missing, presumed dead, Richard Branson has the limelight to himself.
OK, this is a first for Britain, but I thought that coconut oil had many uses as a food substance?
Why are we being encouraged and people congratulated for taking bio-oils from people who depend on them for a food […]

Greenpeace came up with a ‘wizard wheeze’. Lets breeze through Heathrow and put a banner on a British Airways plane. This will draw attention to the environmental problems caused by planes and airports.
Unfortunately most publicity was concerned with the lack of security at London’s main international airport.
This makes me wonder where security starts. Three […]

Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts. I’ve been in hospital for surgery to my left arm.
I have a couple of very useful websites for you today. Does it ever drive you mad when you have to pay 9p per minute for a call to a company to complain about their mistake? I […]

According to the Minister for the Environment it tales 7litres of water to make a plastic bottle. and all because we are too timid to ask for tap water. Who is? Come out with me and I’ll show him who’s timid. Climate change means that more and more of us are carrying bottles of water […]

It has taken years for me to find out why the only castles to stand up were the ones I built at Weymouth in Dorset UK. Now thee Max Planck Society have ruined my illusions.
If you can bare to hear the raw truth about sandcastle building, Davy Jones Locker is below.
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In March THE WORLDS FIRST COMMERCIAL SCALE TIDAL ENERGY SCHEME will be installed in Strangford Lough. What’s more the underwater devices are of BRITISH MANUFACTURE. The energy generated should be sufficient for 1000 homes.
Three cheers for British Engineering! 

Something that has been known for about ten years is causing a storm in the North Sea. The MOD reckon that wind turbines will interfere with security radar. It seems that it is only now that all the parties concerned realise that there might be a problem. Mr Brown has just stepped into the affray. […]

Ear infection most of the week.  Assignments to mark - computer on strike!
0.25% cut in the UK Bank Rate to stop repos. no thanks to Northern Rock.
Russia is rattling sabres about letting  her previous territories have gas at the coldest time of year - strange, I thought it was oil that nations were held ransom […]

A report from Jerusalem proclaims “Snowmen cause outbreak of fun”
Children enjoyed themselves after a rare snowstorm swept the Middle East, blocking roads. men in Arab robes pelted one another with snowballs in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and children built snowmen in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Roads were blocked by 20cm of snow, schools […]