The Scottish Government has launched a consultation int its proposed ban on smacking children. To me it is a no brainer. How can anyone believe that teaching children that violence works as a solution...
My son. who's 12, has always had a tendency to tell lies. Even when he was younger his first reaction to anything he had done wrong was 'it wasn't me' (even when we were watching) and when he had been...
With so many scientists believeing in God, and proofs such as intelligent design established, and the valid criticisms of evolution not being successfully challenged, would you now at least consider...
Why do some people stay on your mind after coming across them for about 10 seconds? Chap in supermarket this morning with two little children aged around 4 and 7. He was pulling one of those baskets...
Gary... http://i63.tinypic.com/2gv0bj4.jpg Is now 8 months old and a little devil! Im aware that he's being 'just a pup' and therefore into EVERYTHING, but the thing is, I tell him off.....He 'shouts'...
It seems that you need to be much more careful about the use of irony and hyperbole - even in a suposedly private exchange of emails with someone you thought was a friend ......
If I see posts or answers by various contributors I read them (The Builder, sadly quiet of late, Buenchico, Vetuste, and several others) - I know that even if I disagree with their words, they will...
Post on my timeline from someone I don't know, who has paid Facebook to spam (tofu-spam?) my News Feed : "Did you know that today is World Vegan Day?" Me : "No, I didn't - but unsurprisingly you can't...
Yesterday I made a pan of Thai squash soup which will do us a few days. Today I’m making a gigantic quorn and lentil cottage pie with a mashed cauliflower and cheese topping instead of potato....
Melissa Whitchurch, one of the parents in the story of having to live on 74 pence, lost her job 11 years ago due to ill health. But I see she has a 5 year old daughter. My question is which is harder?...
Just curious here, Why do females wear makeup? Yes, I know that its become fashionable for men too to some extent but its always been a womanly thing. ''Ive got to put my face on'' was always my ex's...
On the basis that Theland can bang on to the point of idiocy about his Christianity, I thought I'd start a Buddhist thread, where I can do the same about the teachings of the Buddha... There are four...
Isn't it great?
The dreaded wig is virtually extinct, along with the Bobby Charlton comb over, and the egg in the nest has given way to a shaved head.
Has society finally got something right?...