September 2007 Archives

Its every parents (barring Kate and Gerry McCann) instinct to do all they can to protect their children. But there can be such a thing as being overprotective. Asking people to shower while wearing clothes sounds like something that could have been conjured up during the height of Victorian prudishness.

But it is actually the latest example of this country’s inexplicable and irrational fear that there is a paedophile on every street corner just waiting to pounce on our children the moment we let them out of our sight.

The latest overreaction comes from a group of (no doubt) middle class do-gooders who between shopping for organic humus at Sainsburys have nothing better to do in life than read the Daily Express and believe everything in it before drumming up a petition and demanding that SOMETHING must be done….

I don’t really trust Blue Peter. I never have. Ever since I was a little child there has been something about the programme which has always rankled with me.

Each week seeing Mark Curry (a ginger four eyes), Peter Duncan (actor who exposed all on screen) or Sarah Greene (married to ludicrous jumper wearing Mike Smith) making perfect models out of cardboard and sticky back plastic while I ended up making something that looked more like the remains of Hiroshima after the bomb I knew the programme wasn’t to be trusted.

Earlier this year they admitted the phone voting scandal and now they have been caught at it again. And it’s nothing new for decades the trusty Beeb have been lieing to the public. Did you know they replaced the first Blue Peter pet in a coverup? ….

I've been guilty of being a paranoid parent over the years. . . and even though my kids are now both teenagers I still give them a hard time if they don't reply to my texts to keep me informed of their whereabouts.

Then a friend forwarded an email to me the other day that made me realise what a total hypocrite I've become!

The latest series of Hells Kitchen is proving to be one of the best things on television at the moment. Now I’m not usually a fan of reality TV shows. I have no interest in watching a group of nobodies strut around like Prima Donnas.

However I always find Prima Donnas acting like nobodies much more entertaining and that is why celebrity versions are always better.

Watching an ex boxer, ex-actress, WAG, ex-air steward and ex-comedian go toe to toe while being shouted at by a Worsel Gummage look-a-like and being ordered to ‘please respect me’ is too good to miss.

The problem though is that reality TV producers don’t like reality.

'Ben and Jerry ice cream increases your life expectancy by 100 years'. Somehow, I doubt very much the validity of that statement.

Where's the scientific evidence to back it up? How come there hasn't been a paper published in The Lancet?