Grumpy Granny's Blog

Watching on TV so many ladies of my age again being rescued by boat from houses in Carlisle, only 6 years after being told it wouldn't happen again for 250 years, made me think about honesty in politics. Thinking done. There isn't any. There is so little governments seem to be able to do about any issue of import. The Prime Minister should have a sign on his desk " The Buck Has Died And Who The....

The United States has not had a female President since inception. To date, apparently, no mere woman has been equipped to fill the Oval Office. In 2015, are over 200 Million women living in the 50 States of the Union. Yet the males chauvinists deny that any one of  them is ripe to take over the reins of power? Hilary Clinton is a first-class candidate for the Presidency. Lets be honest.Th....

The tragic pictures from just off the coast of Sicily earlier this week highlighted the plight of many who will never take such a boat journey. Our planet is in a pitiless mess. Almost everywhere you look, there are huge problems  which seem insoluble. The most obvious, of course, are in the Middle East and North Africa, with Syria and Iraq both in a state of civil war. Then th....

I am not at all grumpy today  because I am off to wonderful Plumpton racecourse. Plumpton has always been one of my favorite tracks.  Firstly, it is easy to get to. 40 minutes from Victoria, you arrive at a little platform at the bottom end of the course. After that, it is a 5 minute stroll up the side of the course to the quaint old stand, where the great and the good mingle with their....

Female Genital Mutilation is one of the great scandals of our time. This barbaric act is estimated to have been carried out on over 170,000 women now living in the UK. There is NO justification for this brutality towards women. No cultural or religious excuse is acceptable. IT MUST STOP RIGHT NOW. So far, not one successful prosecution of either doctors or parents has been achieved in the UK. T....