Grumpy Granny's Blog

This website sings the praises of cash - and quite rightly. First and foremost, if you have cash you have individual freedom that you don't have without it. A cashless society would be one where individual freedom was curtailed, in favour of central control, whether by Government or card schemes. Some might say that the worst of all worlds would be a card scheme operated by a Government. Sin....

I was reading last week about another actress who has decided to adopt a baby. This got me thinking again about how the rules applying to adoption in the UK need to be changed quickly. It is a sad fact that it is often women who are ill-equipped to look after children who end up having several. Now, I don't want to get into a debate regarding the "Benefits" safety-net, which some people ar....

I love what in my days of innocence were called "the pictures". "Movies" is the more common name now but, whatever the name, I have to wonder if they are as good now as they were way back when. I don't get to the pictures as often as I would like. However, I do stay in touch with most of the latest releases when I fly. A long flight can see me get through 4 or 5 films. Sometimes I watch so m....

It amazes me how many professional dog walkers there are these days. Of course, in one way, it can be portrayed as being good that some employment has been created. However - and it is a huge HOWEVER - I am dead set against this trend. Similarly, I don't agree with people who have children and then pass-off their off-spring to nannies and the like. Too many dogs are for "show" - and, far....

Over the Christmas period, I went to see the film about Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s main opposition political party. To her people, she is simply "The Lady". The Lady won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, yet has spent most of the intervening 20 years under house arrest. Her peaceful campaign against Burma’s totalitarian military regime has been an inspiring contrast to ....