Has My Child Got Rickets ?
Has My Child Got Rickets ?
No folks that’s not a line from a Charles Dickens novel but a real question parents may ask in this modern age.
Although I’m interested in history I think it would be better if diseases from history didn’t make a comeback - but they are
Check out the other winners and losers this week
As uber male, The man with No Name, Clint Eastwood would say - here’s The good, the bad and the ugly
The Good
Rickets
Officially back in a big way ~ nice to see historical diseases making a comeback - Diseases I Have Loved
Needless to say, it’s fat young inactive kids whose parents poison them with with garbage food that are getting it.
Awesome - Victorian diseases - who’d have thought no exercise and a ton of junk food would have repercussions 
Indonesia
Accused of “Selling Tigers to the Rich”
Well the wouldn’t be selling them to the poor would they !
Sabaton T-Shirt
My Sabaton Art of War t-shirt arrived this week from Germany - awesome !
Lemon Juice and Capers
Make a real difference to roasted vegetables - there’s a tip for my brother there - no charge either 
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at the Iraq Inquiry
You know both resent having to appear before the inquiry but at least they know they’ll get an easy ride.
I wonder what chance there is of any truth 
Firefox
On the up after German and French governments said people should switch from Internet Explorer.
Casting aside anything the French say there must have been some glum faces at Microsoft
The Bad
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
This is the first time we’ve had an in-between section !
I suppose if you’re going to do it then it has to be done differently - what’s the point of trying to emulate Jeremy Brett (you’re doomed to failure if you do) or indeed Basil Rathbone with smoggy London streets and hansom cabs.
I watched it the other night 
and it was worth watching. You need to ignore the Sherlockian aspect of things and take it as a period movie really.
Being directed by Guy Ritchie means I expected no surprises . . . and I wasn’t surprised !
It was slightly difficult to see the point of the film, if one wants to get a little deeper on the subject, it lacks depth, some of the shooting was . . . well . . . iffy but if you just fancy a movie which is a bit of harmless fun then you could certainly do worse
The Ugly
It’s a Miracle Proclaims the Church
After 7 days a 69 year old woman is found alive in the runs of a Roman Catholic church in Haiti.
Proof of faith - a miracle from god they’re saying.
Might have been nicer of god not to collapse the church on top of her in the first place !
Vivian Imerman
His wife wants £100 million after 6 years of marriage !
And women wonder why men don’t want ‘to commit’
Food Allergies
I’ve said this is mostly hogwash for ages now - how come people didn’t die on mass after eating peanuts when I was a kid ?
Research has just proved the 90% of people who think they have a food allergy . . . don’t !
I won’t say I told you so but I did - I’m always right 
Human Depravity
Were the 11 and 12 year old boys who tortured another boy born evil or made that way ?
And just to prove you should ignore everything I say here’s a photograph I took the other day. It is #5 from the clichéd photographers handbook
My Calligraphy Set
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Yours in Perpetuity
Rod
Amiguru said,
January 23, 2010 @ 10:08 pm
Rod,
Nice pencils……….Are you going to do an illuminated manuscript version of this blog now?
Up to monkey business,
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Rod said,
January 24, 2010 @ 8:50 am
Neville,
the institution, from whence I write this, will only allow me to have crayons and blunt coloured pencils.
I did have a biro once but after the last . . . incident . . . the staff took it away
Best
Rod
the dinosaur said,
January 24, 2010 @ 10:11 am
Rod, at first I couldn’t see the point of these crayons but now I feel strangely drawn to them
Rod said,
January 24, 2010 @ 10:22 am
Dino
excellent - pleased to see you’ve sharpened up a bit and you’re not feeling off colour
Rod
Cid said,
January 24, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
Rod,
No chance of a splinter art group? …. shame
Cid
Amiguru said,
January 24, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
Rod,
Penknife or your thoughts?
The writer writes then stops to think
‘Til on his quill thus dries the ink
He turns to pencil but it breaks
At least erase, he can, mistakes
To entertain and to inform
Is so his aim from ‘break to dorm
With language coloured by conté
He can more fluid thoughts convey
Although my efforts with this ditty
May well engender naught but pity
For writing thus I am contrite
And so I’ll shrivel out of sight.
N
le
Rod said,
January 24, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
Neville,
I’ve got one comment to make about that verse . . .
Having read it twice I had to Google a couple of lines to see whether it was yours or an acknowledged work of poetry - that’s saying something !
Yours in admiration
Rod
Amiguru said,
January 24, 2010 @ 6:31 pm
Thanks Rod,
And by that very post you have just made it acknowledged
N
le