If you are at a loose end this evening….

Posted by on Jul 12, 2007 in updates | 15 comments Well I can honestly say that so far, nobody has ever got lost under my leadership as a guide for the Ramblers’ Association. Let’s hope my walk this evening is as successful as my previous jaunts. I live very close to Wicken Fen, a stunning National Trust nature reserve, where I will lead my group of merry men and women. In fact, when I led this same walk last year, romance...
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Campaigning for twins and fairer benefits

Posted by on Jul 12, 2007 in updates | 21 comments Guest post by Linda Jones, campaigning for fairer benefits for parents of twins and triplets.  I am a twin myself and so delighted to give a guest spot to Linda Jones who writes a site dedicated to multiple births called appropriately You’ve Got Your Hands Full. Her twin daughters, Emily and Melissa, look like cherubs, I’m sure they are lots of fun too, as...
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Have you upset any of the royals?

Posted by on Jul 12, 2007 in updates | 10 comments We all know the Queen has the patience of a saint, the greatest difficulty for her must be not to show surprise or annoyance at other people’s odd behaviour. She must have known by now that they do things differently on the other side of the pond. Take George Bush’s wink, he probably thought he was being friendly and putting our monarch at her ease; at the end of the day, it was...
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The missing – Renee Aitken

Posted by on Jul 12, 2007 in updates | 0 comments Renee Aitken was abducted from her bedroom in New South Wales, Australia, in 1984 aged five. She would now be 29.  Despite exhaustive police investigations and three massive land searches, no trace of her has ever been found. An inquest was held into Renee’s disappearance four years ago when the coroner returned an open verdict. He concluded that Renee was dead...
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