Grumpy Granny's Blog

As a growingly old person myself, I am staggered at the decision of the Pope to retire.
Popes don't retire- they die on the job.

No Pope has retired for 600 years. That is a very significant historic precedent for not taking a pension. Apparently, Pope Benedict travelled to Cuba and Africa last year and found it all very tiring. His doctors advised him not to travel again o....

I have always had vegetarian tendencies - but living without the occasional bacon sandwich would definitely drive me nuts. However, the latest revelations from Fiasco (Every Fiddle Helps) that their beef burgers might have finished unplaced at Ascot recently has revived my interest in salad days.
It used to be easy to whip up an interest in plant life but recently sales of organic veget....

It is lovely that Kate and William are having a baby. They seem a devoted young pairing, so unlike the Charles/Diana combo. One excellent new twist to this Royal tale is that if the offspring is a girl, the recently mooted changes to rules of succession mean the young lady will be third in line to the throne. Prior to this change, the princess would have been behind every male child born to th....

I like independent ladies. I am one myself.  However, sometimes we girls don't help ourselves.
Take Nadine Dorries, a Conservative MP.
Nadine is paid a reasonable salary to serve her constituents. Part of the service she is meant to deliver is being present in Parliament to discuss and vote.
However, Nadine doesn't believe anyone is really interested in the going....

I am delighted that it has now been recognised that those of a certain age still have much to offer. Clearly, the main reason the Government has removed automatic retirement is undoubtedly to save money in the shape of reduced State Pension outgoings. However, a useful by-product of the financial imperative is that those of 65 can no longer be thrown on the scrapheap. If they want to work on....

I am a firm believer that there are too many children on our planet. Like their parents, most of these children are destined to live in poverty and die young. It is a well known phenomenon that in the poorest countries, families tend to be larger.  This is partly because of a lack of adequate birth control but the main reason is that parents allow for a high mortality rate when planning t....

I have to say that I have never found politicians attractive but the current bunch are perhaps the least attractive in my long lifetime. The UK’s Terrible Twins have the fixed smiles of synchronised swimmers and the charisma of wet dish cloths. In the States, the position is even worse. The President has proven to be a good talker but little more. However, the least appealing figure o....

The manoeuvres Prince Harry was on in Las Vegas did not seem to come from any Sandhurst training course. The Rampant Royal seems to have devised his own offensive strategies. The photographic evidence suggests that these were successful in overcoming any token resistance. I have to admit that Strip Snooker is a new one to me. In my heyday, Poker was the game of choice for budding naturists. ....