ONCE upon a time, less than a century ago, there was a country called "Great Britain". Great Britain had created an Empire which spanned the World from the Middle East, Asia and the Far East and was a powerful and prosperous country exercising influential authority on the world stage.
THE ongoing exchange of views between Dr Emil Shehadeh and the boss of Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions continues over the question of health checks for people with learning disabilities.
I WAS recently asked by Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent to partake in a challenge where I had to find the perfect pair of jeans for AW14 for £50 or under.
AFTER the World Cup in Brazil, I claimed on a previous blog that I was absolutely starving for the football and that I could not see how we could all survive on meagre pre season football rations until the premiership season started again.
ANYONE who regularly reads this blog will be very aware that I often write about my hometown. I have written about the history, as well as my thoughts and hopes for its future.
SUMMER is here and it's nice and warm. To those who complain in late July/early August about it being too hot, I say "it will be winter long enough". It seems like forever now since us parents were shivering on the touchline at football matches for the u8s at Nutberry field or the girls under 11s at "the Firemans" sportsground. The World Cup came and went. Germany were by far the best team. Who can now remember that wonder goal by young Mario Gotze in extra time on July 13?
IN contrast the main thrust of the Conservative Councillors support for the workfare scheme was based, almost entirely, upon the notion that workfare is an incentive to instil in the long term unemployed the desire to work by encouraging them to get up and go to work for no pay and never mind the type or quality of work offered. As Cllr Coxshall so eloquently stated “Just think if you had three years of not wanting to work could you get up at 8-o-clock in the morning, I know I couldn’t, this is not giving you training or skills it is just making you get up in the morning, catch the train and do some work”.
AS awful as it sounds to be so obsessed with a material thing, my phone is an important possession of mine; it constantly keeps me in the loop and up to date with everything, to do with my friends, family, school, and the media. If I’m not on my phone, I’ll be listening to music from it or it’ll be in my pocket. To be completely honest, I think there has probably only been a few days in the five years I’ve had a phone when I’ve gone out without it. Recently, I chose to go out with my family and leave my phone at home.
IT was Friday, so off to my boy's u9 cricket 'el Classico' Belhus v Horndon. It's the away leg for our go-ahead Belhus club team. All the boys are brilliant. Truly entertaining fare and our team edge it by just one run. Sunday, it is an all day football tournament at st clere's school in Stanford-le-hope. All day because my daughters u11 LTD team played in the morning and the afternoon with my Son fits in nine games for his Thurrock FC u8s. What a truly well run football tournament, the best organised that i have attended. St clere's is a cooperative academy school and clearly the school work hard with their local community. Long may this continue.
