There have been heated debates of what will happen to Afghanistan and Iraq after the war on terror is over and i thought i'd share my opinion on this. To put it quite bluntly: The Taliban will just walk back in. All those years spent fighting a war against insurgents so the people of afghanistan could live in peace will be wasted because the Afghan army is nowhere near capable enough to cope on its own. Some say we need to be there longer to train them up a bit more, but i disagree. So my point would be bring back our troops now, stop them getting killed, it is not our war, and the people of Afghanistan need to stand up and fight for their country if they want the ...  Read the complete review

A-Z of the new year! With the news that the company who own dooyoo have purchased ciao.co.uk recently one or two of you may not be sure of the future of both sites. They could co-exist but then why spend money on something that does what you do? Dooyoo made 200,000 Euro in 2010 and I doubt if ciao barely makes 100,000 a year and so must mean the end for one, right? I suspect ciao will be absorbed and dooyoo will be market leader by the spring. At least there will be one left so we can keep writing. Hell, maybe the rewards will even go up on here because of!! What is for sure is the guide's rewards won't be going down any day soon, taking 24 Christmas week ...  Read the complete review

The tradition of sending greetings cards for Christmas and the New Year started back in 1840, and for me the best thing about it is sending cards to people I see very seldom during year, and receiving a card and some news from them. I usually try to buy charity Christmas cards in the hope that a few pennies will go to third-world countries or other deserving causes, although we are told that the percentage that is given is very small. A couple of years ago I found out about Amnesty International's greetings card campaign, which seemed a way of doing something more constructive than simply buying charity cards. Amnesty provides details of people all over the ...  Read the complete review

Forever on the hunt for new things to write about whilst I'm waiting for my suggested topics to be approved, I found yet another one of these "talking about myself" type things way down in the archives. How could I possibly resist doing this? At the risk of boring anybody who reads this beyond redemption, here goes.......and though until I start I have little idea of what I am going to say, I have a feeling my answers/descriptions will be centred not entirely, but largely around the shock of becoming middle-aged. A...is for Amnesia. My memory is something that, until the dreaded menopause took its toll and turned me into a gibbering ...  Read the complete review

Its my 100th op!! I never thought that I would get this far, or obviously having nothing else to do in my life that would mean I was still here, putting out ops and hoping for the jaggy bonnets!! But there you go, and I'm afraid you are going to have to sit through the dreaded A-Z of me! A) Can I see we are off to a really bad start here! I know, antiques! I've got a really big thing about them, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadshow, Flog It, etc. I watch them all. Unfortunately I don't possess any at all, sour grapes perhaps? I'm not telling you! Oh and I'm sorry Sarah_Louise I know you love that paranormal stuff but Antiques Ghost Show is just ...  Read the complete review