Jun 19, 2013

Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen

Posted at 8:35 am by David Bradley  

Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to:

"to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country"

That obviously only applies to people of faith and those with a female monarch…and indeed compromises the integrity of those girls without fixed national domicile. So, after consultation the century-old organisation is planning a bit of a rewording, dropping references to both spiritual and earthly …

Jun 18, 2013

Life on the rocks

Posted at 11:17 am by David Bradley  

Life on the rocks, unlike love on the rocks, is a surprise…

In the beginning…

…there was a barren spinning ball of rock, with a hot, molten core, hurtling through space around a distant, but warming fusion reactor. But the spinning ball was not alone on its journey – there were countless misshapen chunks of rock and ice and frozen gases in its vicinity, many with eccentric orbits around the central fusion reactor. These comets and other …

Jun 11, 2013

What do you do if you’ve got osteoarthritis of the knee?

Posted at 11:49 am by David Bradley  

Film director Baz Luhrmann made a spoof graduation speech famous with his hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” back in 1999. At the time, I wasn’t particularly worried about the line in that track: “Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.” But, you get older, knees become more of a focus, so what are you to do if you suffer from osteoarthritis …