This is a call for sympathy; please hear it, being a parent is HARD! Forget the 7 years masters’ degree or the 5 day a week job these all pale into insignificance next to being a parent. Yesterday I had an argument with my five year old, he didn’t want to wear his Harry Potter warm top and wouldn’t tell me why and wouldn’t go into the class room because he didn’t want to show his friends! When did 5 year olds become fashion experts? So while the time ticked by and I became later and later for work and the blood pressure was rising tsunami like he folded his arms and simply said no!
Then when we wanted him to eat his carrots last ,night he told us no again, on enquiring why? He responded that they had done an eye test that morning at school and his eyes were fine! This is karma revisited on me for being such a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan. I think we may be in trouble in his teenage years!
Being a huge fan of archaeology, I never cease getting a thrill out of some fabulous archaeological find. Evidence has been found that the Egyptions had a seafaring nation as far back as 4000 years ago. Remains of ancient seafaring ships have been found in man made caves along with ancient cargo boxes. The timbers have been dated to around 2000BC when the Egyptions sailed the seas in search of riches.
George Lucas (aka: Mr. Star Wars) and other movie moguls are of the opinion that the big buck blockbuster era is over and I have to agree with him. I yawned my way through most of the the Star Wars prequels and came out feeling as if my senses had been assaulted with a high voltage power cable however a movie like Phonebooth, low budget and tense with a riveting story had me glued to my seat. In the past you had to rely on your story to captivate your audience, you just didn’t have the special effects – these days however if you have a good CGI team then you can churn out the most ridiculous crap and call it a movie. Let’s hope he’s right.
It seems that all the hype about bird flu may not be crying wolf after all. Austrian officials say they have detected the lethal H5N1 strain in several cats. This at least indicates that this particularly nasty bug can jump the species barrier after all. Cats are able to pass disease to humans already, the most notable and nasty being toxoplasma gondii recently purported to be linked to forms of shizophrenia in survivors of the disease.
Those of you, like me, who are huge fans of lego – check out the top 10 strange lego creations – I must get the ‘Han Solo frozen in Carbonite’ for my wall 
I watched the news last night, something I try to avoid as it gives me chronic indigestion, and saw more video footage of Zuma prancing around like some tarentismic halfwit to hoards of indignant supporters there to show comraderie for this swine accused of raping a woman who saw him as an uncle and family friend.
While the throngs tried to push a music blaring taxi through the police barricade the other gathering – the important one – the one that was there protesting abuse to women – had to stand quietly down the street away from the courthouse lest they were pelted with stones from the Zuma supporters. Excuse my French but “WHAT THE #$%#$@!!”. Read how our beloved ex-deputy president forced himself upon this poor woman not bothering with anything as un-manly as a condom.
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