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Tragically this morning, a helicopter in London crashed into a crane and subsequently burst into flames, killing the pilot of the helicopter...

Yeah, I'm late. Checking into Twitter, I find some amount of venom aimed at Ms Julie Burchill. So I Google her name. So, we don't ...

Ok, it's not a new day, dawn or life, and it's not quite new year any more either. But I haven't blogged in a while, no, really,...

Ooh. Today is the day the world ends, except it doesn't. According to Mayan calendars, December 21 2012 marks the end of the 13th baktu...

How gratifying to see Bradley Wiggins win BBC Sports Personality of the Year. A truly deserved win. First he won the Tour de France, the fi...

RIP innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut. There are no words for this tragedy other than sending thoughts to those who have lost thei...

No, not that one. The date today, being 12/12/12, marks the last properly matching date in our lifetime.  Which is sad, if you're sad li...

Have I mentioned before how great Firebox are? I should have, so we'll assume I have. So, reasons why they are great: I love most of t...

It is indeed a miracle. The Duchess of Cambridge is in fact the first woman ever to conceive a baby. Ever. Who knew there was so much gossi...

Ok, not quite, but in a revisit of an old post I am delighted to bring you the predictions for the coming year. Yes. December has just beg...

I've encountered this thing mentioned that December is special as it has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays, which only happens every ...

After much deliberation and a woefully disappointing new product from Apple in the form of the iPhone 5, I have made the move. I was awaiti...

Hmph. Hmph. Now I do appreciate that I have been genetically programmed to complain about everything England does with regard to Scotland, b...

Yet again, I read about breastfeeding and how "good" mothers do it. Formula bad, yada yada. I have breast fed none of my children....

Ooh, I do love a good football tournament. Far more exciting than old people not dying and Britain funding athletics by cutting payments to ...

A long, long time ago, but I can still remember... I said that I would write every day. I thought I'd have something to say. I thought t...

Having been given a 3DS, I now spend a lot of time playing Brain Training, a game I already had on the DS lite. Don't ask. One of the ga...

Ha! CBeebies can't defeat me with their obscure song. The new (May 2012) CBeebies weekend trailer features "Good Times" by Gen...

So last week we had our council elections. Woo. Now, I feel people should vote, especially women, as other people* worked rather hard in the...

As I seem to get more (genuine) hits for the CBeebies music blog than any other, I've dedicated a new blog to it here . I spend a lot of...