HA!

...Brown still thinks Labour has a chance!

IRAN!!! Now that is out the way let's talk prison hooch!

As Obama and Brown have been all over the news today in talks about the discovery of Iran's secret second nuclear plant I was planning to discuss this in a blog... however... I then got distracted by the story of creative Dorset prisoners using the antiseptic hand gel intended to combat the spread of swine flu... to make an alcoholic beverage! As soon as the lags spotted the alcohol based hand gel they started stealing it and making their hooch by mixing it with other drinks! I bet those inmates know how to throw a party :)

You have to worry about the clever young soul who thought it would be a good idea to make a alcohol based product readily available to the prisoners and naively thought they wouldn't see an opportunity and run with it.

Countdown to Christmas has begun!!

I walked into Sainsburys today with a friend (we were buying ingredients for the BEST CURRY EVER... but that's a different story for a different day) and we quickly realised that the build up to Christmas is getting earlier and earlier each year! The aisles were filled with festive treats... candy canes, cadbury chocolate tree decorations, selection boxes and mince pies.

The truth is everybody loves Christmas, it doesn't matter how old you get!

But the thing that struck me as odd is that whilst investigating the mince pies I found that the sell date was for November... a whole month before Christmas. This may be forgiven if it wasn't for the fact that the box even had a picture of Father Christmas on it! I read in The Sun today that Tesco is selling boxes of them that are sell by October.

The holiday season is taking oveeer!!

Newborn Tot Found In Bushes

One story this week that has really upset me is that of the newborn baby found in some bushes in Buckinhamshire. The baby was found on a piece of open ground in High Wycombe with her umbilical cord still attached, suggesting that the birth of the child was not supervised by medical professionals.

Although the baby was thought to have been safe and well whilst being cared for by staff at the Wycombe General Hospital, what emotional pain will this child feel growing up knowing that she was abandoned at birth?

I suspect that the mother was maybe a young girl who accidentally got pregnant because she doesn't think contraception is important... in the words of Jeremy Kyle "Put something on the end of it!"

Who am I to judge though? This girl/woman could have some serious deep rooted psychological issues, but to leave your own baby after birth is far beyond any mental illness I have ever come across. I fail to understand the sheer cold heartedness of this. To call it a severe case of post natal wouldn't do this defenseless child any justice.

I hope that this anonymous mother will come forward and seek help.