The Perfect Getaway - * Boats in Padstow harbour*. Having not had a holiday this year my husband and decided it was time to get away for a few days to relax and forget about ...

Silly Season - We're right in the middle of the busiest time of the year in the Arena. For reasons I still don't fully understand, tha majority of "Rock N Roll" tours all...

Just wondering if Operation Winner can start tomorrow instead?! -

Forgiveness is the reason for the season #end - ** Cross Rhythms recently won a significant media award for the 'Truth & Reconciliation' piece, which regular listeners will have heard broadcast ov...

The Forum in Devonport - Passing the Forum in Devonport today, it's hard to imagine that it once formed part of the busy and popular, Fore Street. The heavy bombing during the Seco...

Father Abraham - Forty naked men (except for club ties), aged between 20 and 60 jumping from one foot to the other whilst wildly waving their hand about their heads and sin...

Christmas gift tips for the e-saver - Doesn't time fly - especially when you're playing the likes of Unchartered 2 and Call of Duty? Before you know it, it's Christmas. And the countdown offici...

bouldering park dreaming - I went to a skate park today. It was OK. It was for youths, but anyone could use it. BMX bikers do. So could you. The joy of the skate park...

Blogging from a dry, sunny Gambia. - The rainy season is finally over, time to survey the damage done by the rain and wind and undertake repairs to fencing, buildings and roofs. We have instal...

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...

Thanks for Life - Hi there happy reader! Yesterday I suggested a search engine entry. Even better, try typing in ‘Thanks for Life’ and see what you get. You will be led t...

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...