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The Bottom Line?

Some people are just downright shiftless and lazy. Or they just can’t be bothered. It seems. What’s upset J.A. now? I’ll tell ya. Children being sent to school in nappies. Say what? And what’s more, parents think it’s the teacher’s role to be changing nappies and toilet training their kids during school…

Tails Wagging the Dogs? I’m Not Faking Having It!

What in the world…? There is a saying that goes ‘the tail is wagging the dog’ and there is even ‘the lunatics are running the asylum’. You get the general meaning there. And the same could be said of a school in Kent. The matter before us is fake eyelashes. Fake eyelashes? Don’t you…

I Am What I Am – And Don’t I Know It!

Because of television shows like Who Do You Think You Are? and the rise in interest in checking one’s ancestry and genealogy, I am often asked if I would be interested in finding long-lost or forgotten kinfolk. Me? No, thanks! Why would I want to do that? I have enough…

J.A. Lovelock: Award-Winning Podcaster

Hard work and endeavour have paid off for J.A. Lovelock. Her podcast Behind The Yellow Tape garnered Gold from the global w3Awards in the Individual Episode category for ‘For She The Bells Toll – Priscilla Biggadyke’. Why not listen to the award-winning episode to see why?

Dead Man Talking – Trash!

Let me say first off, I don’t agree with capital punishment. Well, in general, that is. The chances of even one innocent being executed are too great and no amount of pardon or money is going to resurrect the dead and return them to their loved ones. Whilst I say…

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Can’t Buy Me Love – Money That Is!

When will they ever learn? Lonely British women, that is. Yet again we hear a sorry tale that some women of a certain age have fallen for the charms of an online ‘lover’ whose only interest is to relieve them of their hard-earned or inherited dosh. These women don’t just…

Rock Around the Christmas Tree with These Spine Tingling Reads

Yes, folks, it’s that time of year. Again. And for this final post of the year, I thought I would do things differently. Nicking an episode from my Christmas Past crime podcast, I would like to share the following. Book Reviews. Review of a fist-full of crime novels, with crime…

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Ring My Bell? Oh No, You Don’t!

Recently I experienced a persistent and (I considered) aggressive ringing of my doorbell. I didn’t answer it. If you are going to ring my bell (of any description) do it nicely. After what seemed an age, the ringing ceased. Then I looked out of the window to see if I…

The Curious Case of the Eggs Throw-Down: Criminal or What?

Some years ago, while adjudicating on the magisterial bench, a case came before me which left me quite perplexed. The defendant was charged with some dubious breach of the peace offence. Top and bottom of this story: a man was going along his merry way, singing his merry little song,…

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Shoplifting as a Middle Class Sport…?

Can you Adam and Eve it? The middle-class shoplift for fun? What? They’ve given up the fun and frolics of Verbier and Saint Moritz? When was shoplifting ever fun? And when did it become a sport? It’s one thing if you are poor and in need and you walk out of a…

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