The Student March

I was a little horrified to read an article by a journalist about how her 13 year old daughter went on the student march about fees.

No I'm not going into the rights or wrongs of the issue but I'm just recording my thoughts about some parenting.

This young lady asked her mother whether or not she could go on this march (silly term as they are not marching but walking!).

I suppose student walk doesn't have the same ring about it.

Any rate I digress. According to the mother the daughter had little idea about the pros and cons of the debate but just wanted to go "because all my friends are going"

The headteacher had told the pupils that they could have time off to go on the march if they had a note from their parents/guardians.

Am I the only one who can see the foolishness of this?

For heaven sake we have a headteacher and parents allowing children (yes children!) to go on a march where there is likely to be disruptive elements present.

Apart from the fact that the protest is being diluted by having persons present who probably do not fully understand the issues what about the safety of the children?

It strikes me that both the headteacher and the parents need to have their heads examined!

Protest by all means but lets be sensible about it!

Joke for today:- Advice to teenagers. Leave home nowwhile you still know everything.

On this day; 14th January

In 1963 De Gaulle says non to Britain joining the EEC

In 1989 British Muslims burned copies of Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses"

John F.Beaumont

Miracle Diet Pill, Meratol

I see that a "miracle"weight loss pill which supposedly has been used by Eva Longoria and Courteney Cox goes on sale in the UK today.

I'm a bit surprised about Courteney Cox. Ithink she could do with a weight on pill. Still perhaps that is because Meratol is so successful?

However I see that the price of Meratol is £29.99 in the UK. Surely that is not for just one tablet?

I think I will stick to the best diet plan of all. Eat less, eat the right foods and excercise more. Hey perhaps I should patent that!

Thought for today: Are you looking after your body?

Joke for today:- A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

On this day:- 27th December

In 1945 Britain signed the Bretton Woods agreement establishing the IMF

In 1979 The Soviet Union excuted the Afghan president

John F Beaumont internet marketer

The Threatened Beaver

There is a very interesting article in this month's The Oldie Magazine (I'm a Youngie actually

but they let me read it!)

This article is about the marvellous beaver and how they are the most accomplished engineers of

the animal kingdom.

Not only do they build impressive dams which can be 8 foot high and three hundred feet in

length they also know to build a secondary dam. This second dam is build downstream to catch

the overflow which creates a pond which counterbalances the downward pressure on the first

dam. Then a third dam is build upstream to prevent a sudden rush of water following a sudden

downpour. Brilliant.

However their numbers are being decimated* by trappers.

So this lovely creatury is being sacrificed so that their pelts can be used as a fashion accessory.

Sick or what?Thought for today: Are we humans any better than other animals?

* Decimated. I was once told off for using this term in a report by my then managing director. He wrote that it meant reduced by or to ten. Actually according to the dictionary I could use it in the context I was describing!

Joke for today:- In his spare time my granddad races pigeons. I don't know wht as he never beats them.

On this day:- 19th December

In 1991 Gorbachev resigned

In 1984 Britain and China signed the agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

John F. Beaumont internet marketer

Isn't central heating great.

Hi there,

I got thinking this morning as I wearily raised myself from my bed in my nice warm bedroom about when I was a boy.

In my parents house, well bungalow actually, we only had a coal fire in the living
room so the other rooms got very cold. In fact in the morning we had to scrape the frost and ice off the INSIDE of the windows of the bedrooms.

We did in fact have fireplaces in the bedrooms but just after the war we could not afford to keep a fire in all of them. In fact when I was ill one time my father got a shovel and put the living room fire into a bucket and moved it to my bedroom in the evening.

So we are really blessed to have the benefits of central heating in most properties today.

Thought for today:- Do you appreciate the modern appliances we now have?

Joke for today:- Little boy to grandfather: Are you still growing grandpa? No I don't think so. Why? Boy: It's just that the top of your head is coming through your hair

On this day:- December 8th

In 1980 John Lennon was shot dead.

In 1941 Britain Australia and USA declare war on Japan

In 1542 Mary queen of Scots was born and in 1925 Sammy Davis jnr made his first appearance

John F. Beaumont