Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Maths-A Must for Lawyers?

The cases of mothers wrongly convicted of killing their children are examples of double tragedies. Not only do the mothers suffer grievously when their babies die, but the suffering is compounded when they are arrested, charged and are then subject... Read more →

They Just Don't See the Light!

Our Royal family have an amazing knack of making fools of themselves. Perhaps it's in the Windsor gene pool. But today, when we read here the UK manages to top the Euro energy waste league the BBC reports that Buckingham... Read more →

"A Little Turnip of My Own"!

The last of this year's vegetables are being harvested. There are still leeks, red cabbage, turnips and some broccoli to come-and even the odd yellow courgette! Those turnips remind me of this from Black Adder iii Episode One- "Dish and... Read more →

3rd Place!

Each year, our local authority awards prizes for the allotments in the borough. This year our plotters at Springfield Park won third prize Read more →

The Davis Delusion!

David Davis has really bamboozled Brian Barder! Here, Brian describes Davis’s speech to the Tory faithful a couple of weeks ago in these glowing terms. “There's a genuinely liberal, reformist passage about the need to reduce re-offending by tackling the... Read more →

New Pond Plot#12

When we took over Plot #12 last year, the previous tenant had built a small pond at its eastern boundary. The base had been constructed with concrete and its sides with granite-type bricks cemented together. Both had been laid on... Read more →

Fit for purpose?

This is nicked from that wonderful Beau Bo D'Or blog Read more →

The Bunglawala Delusion!

Today's Guardian contains an op-ed piece by Inayet Bunglawala who is described as "media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain". He is commenting, or to be more accurate pinching comments from Alistair McGrath and John Horgan, about Richard Dawkins'... Read more →