Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

New Crops Plot#12

This year Anne has tried a couple of new crops on Plot 12. These are squashes- variety Jack O' Lantern- and the plants, grown from seed, each contain two or three full grown specimens. Cauliflowers are often difficult to grow.... Read more →

What exactly Alistair Darling said!

[cartoon Poldraw] This morning I woke up, and, as usual, switched in the Radio to catch the "Today" programme. By 8 a.m., the news was almost entirely saturated with the interview Chancellor Alistair Darling had given to the Guardian's Decca... Read more →

Miliband Needs a History Lesson

Today I listened to our Foreign Secretary, David Miliband discussing the Russian/ Georgian conflict.You can follow to the entire interview here. Amongst his usual ramblings he said this: "The sight of Russian tanks rolling into part of a sovereign country... Read more →

Athletes and their waffle....!

" Failure" Idowu These days athletes sound as if they have had a month's training in waffle. Just listen to the wretched Paula Radcliffe here. But it's really nice to see when stupidity intervenes. One of "Team GB's" high hopes... Read more →

The McCann Mouth at it again

The McCann Mouth I read with increasing disbelief Clarence Mitchell's criticism of the Portuguese police interviewing techniques. This clown seemed amazed that the officers interviewing their suspects would exaggerate the evidence they had. Crikey, in thirty years listening to thousands... Read more →