The Way We Live - Here's an interesting film, called 'The Way We Live', which was shot in Plymouth in 1945. It stars Patsy Scantlebury as Alice Copperwheat whose family's h...

A humanist approach. - On Tuesday I attended my first ever Humanist Funeral, all the other funerals I have been to have been based on the Christian faith even if the individuals...

V-Day Imaginary Shopping Trip - I LOVE shopping. I LOVE buying presents. I HATE having no money... Personally come February I am usually more psyched about Pancake Day than Valentine's Da...

Prayer #end - Prayer. Everyone has heard of it; many people practice it. Christians, Muslims, Jews - even professing atheists, in a time of crisis, have been known to...

Plastic fantastic - I’ve got a terrible guilty secret and I can’t keep it in any longer. I thought if I told no-one it would be OK. I thought it would be fine because some of ...

I'm doing OK, you're doing OK - The Government has come up with a new measuring/whipping stick to gauge how well the fuzz are doing. Needless to say, after a decade of using crime stats, ...

Backstage at... The Prodigy - The Prodigy were here on Monday evening, and they’re just the sort of act you’d expect would leave me with loads of tales to tell. Boozy antics, backstag...

Yes! I said ShelterBox as Hospital wards! - So! What's this? Twice in one evening! I did not show this image in my earlier writing. It has just come through to me. This lad has lost part of a leg an...

Happy New Year from Gambia - A cheery message from The sunny Gambia to wish all the Herald readers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year and to thank you for your continued support in 2...

It’s Good to be Alive - We have been away from Plymouth for nearly three weeks. So much has happened and for one reason or another I have let this blog slip. I have chronicled the...

Sale of the century! Well... decade - ROCK memorabilia goes under the online hammer this week offering those with a few quid the chance to scoop a piece of history. Coldplay - who hail partly fr...

Sharks, fears and a Polish dentist - Yes! I did it! To be honest – I had to. One of my teeth ‘refused cooperation’ with the 'rest of me'… In other words: I had to go to a dentist. Just like f...

Blog action day - *15.10.09 * ** *Today, October 15, is the annual Blog Action Day, a day that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day w...

I turned down a free gastric band op.... - The growingly popular gastric band surgery that so many desperate people are putting themselves into debt for and the NHS is under increasing pressure to p...

Hayseed Dixie - LET’S get this straight - hillbilly heroes Hayseed Dixie are fantastic live but don’t expect to see them fronting any anti-binge drinking campaign. We’r...

YAY!!! I’ve now lost half Stone - I am now in my 5th Week of the programme & have got to a milestone 7.5 Pounds. Exercise habit is cracked I never thought I would hear myself saying this b...

Mint - it absolutely will not stop, ever. - Weeds have developed a range of strategies for ensuring their survival; scratching, stinging, poisioning, stinking - even biting. Mint seems to have gone d...

- IT GOES without saying that Simon Walton has not made the impact he, or Argyle, would have wanted after signing from Queens Park Rangers last August. He pu...

- IF ARGYLE should be relegated at the end of this campaign, there will be plenty of soul searching in the quest for the reasons behind their fall from grace...

Home again - Well I'm back in good old Blighty yet again after a very challenging time in Bangladesh. There were good times and bad times and some very upsetting times ...

There's a plaice for us... - Dear Fellow Fishers, Normally, my plaice season doesn't get under way until April, but this winter I left my boat Safran on her mooring. The last two...

- THERE is a certain logic, I suppose, to the winner-takes-all format that will determine which driver carries off the Formula One title this year. But in usi...

Liverpool's win not surprising - I WASN’T entirely surprised by Liverpool winning so handsomely at Manchester United after beating Real Madrid. Beating United 4-1 at Old Trafford at the wee...

Accessible Higher Education, Not Vice-Chancellors Greed - This week has seen the release of a document from the organisation Universities UK detailing the options for the future of tuition fees – the cost for a st...

Sarah Shares... - Sarah shares………… Hi, I’m Sarah and I’m doing a uni placement at MBC until May. As Emily has said in the previous blog, I’m working with Steve leading...

Great to be back - IT WAS a great feeling playing and scoring a try for Albion again last weekend and just a pity that we were unable to come away from Doncaster with a victo...

Polar Bear Problems - Sunday I headed out on the sea ice around Qikiqtarjuag to see if we catch a seal. Seal hunting is a very controversial subject and I am keen to see this im...

Frustrations - ARGYLE have it all to do again this weekend away to Norwich City, who like a number of clubs are fighting like mad to get away from the wrong end of the Ch...

Nice to get back to winning ways - IT’S really nice to be able to write about coming away from Sedgley Park with a victory and a good win at that. Any victory home or away is welcome at any s...

Steering towards spring - As the afternoons draw out and the mornings become lighter I can once again enjoy motoring that little bit more. It's been a tough winter for our cars too;...

Drastic measures - AT the tender age of 24, I’m probably a bit young to have experienced a mid-life crisis. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what I had earlier this year when I w...

Donny to win the cup? - DONCASTER to win the National Trophy? Well, if the bookies are superstitious then they will insert them as the new favourites after seeing off Albion 21-3 a...

Pregnant Man? - So, here we have it. I have just seen the advertisement for a telly program about the "Pregnant Man" to be aired shortly. Now, it is of course everyones r...

Hasta Luego Sud America - Well I finally managed to leave the wonderful Galapagos Islands after a truly unique experience although the boat journey across the pacific ocean between ...

Student involvement - The past few days have been very busy and I had the opportunity to meet and work with several students who made honour to our university and city. Here are...

Ra ra skirts, Hitler and the blinkered Malaysian politician's wife - Hi. Well thank-you Mr Web Editor for disclosing my age to the city. I suppose it had to be done. It’s a recent event, my coming to a false sense of maturi...