IN DEFENCE OF BREAKFAST

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YOU KNOW IT’S THE WRITE WAY

IN DEFENCE OF BREAKFAST

Doctors have recently advised that the best way to fight middle-age spread is to breakfast like a king and take lunch like a pauper. Of course, this has always been known. It’s called commonsense.
To eat first thing provides immediate nutrients, whilst to eat much later leads mainly to fat. Indeed, I was brought up to love my breakfast. Mindst you, this doesn’t mean that my breakfasts were always healthy.

My mother was a great believer in dripping.

It could come from any joint of meat, and she’d keep a permanent bowl of the stuff in the kitchen. She’d pour it into the frying pan as required, and when finished the pan would never be washed, but scrapped back into the bowl and the pan wiped out with a newspaper.
You must remember this was the late 1950s, early 1960s. For breakfast I would be sent off to school with a ‘lining’ in my stomach, caused by a couple of slices of bread given two seconds each side in the frying pan. It was beautiful.

I took my love of breakfasts into adult life.

Before being married, I loved my breakfasts in the Royal Air Force mess. Bacon, sausage, egg, tomato, beans – I’d pile it all on. And when married I cooked a fried breakfast every morning, breaking the runny yoke and pouring the excess from the pan onto the plate to be mopped up by bread.
Of course, I realized this may not be such a good idea, but I’ve never quite got the hang of cereal, etc, for breakfast. Today, my breakfasts are smaller, my egg scrambled, my bacon grilled. But do without breakfast? Never!

© Anthony North

ROBBIE LEADS THE CAUSE

I’m not a great fan of Robbie Williams, but admit he can sing. Further, he has a distinctive voice, which is the usual criteria for a long career. Think Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury and - dare I say it – Cliff Richard. They all have a voice that is immediately recognizable …
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BODY PARTS BROWN

There is a transplant crisis. Not enough people are carrying donor cards. Hence, our ‘esteemed leader’ Gordon Brown has unveiled plans, finally, for doctors to remove organs without consent. If you disagree, it is up to you to opt out …
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Fiction Xtra - A FRAME OF MIND - A celebration (?) of Voltaire’s Candide

Professor Thunderstruck was a philosopher of note. As he walked down the street he turned to his pupil, Arnold, and said: ‘Now, young man, we are told that the streets are cruel and vicious. I disagree. If we take the chance, it is perfectly reasonable to meet a thoroughly nice chap anywhere …
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TONY ON SAUSAGE AND OTHER NEWS

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News and comment LATEST: Save sausages from the health evangelists … PLUS … New Labour plan to abolish my country. UK councils are rubbish.
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ODE TO THE SAUSAGE

I love a good sausage; and packed into a nice thick crust, the hot dog is even more delicious. Of course, my sausages come only from a good butcher, made fresh in the shop. They’re delicious.
But mean-minded health evangelists don’t like my sausage. No, according to a new report, processed meats such as ham, bacon and sausages cause cancer – along with red meat and salt … oh, and alcohol. Infact, they say my sausage should never enter my diet.
Well this is what I think. I eat only wholemeal bread, have my five portions of fruit and veg a day, and eat small meals often, rather than large meals. I always eat in moderation. But alongside this, I will continue to eat my sausage, safe in the knowledge that one of the main causes of ill health is worry. And tonight, I will also have a beer or two, and say ‘cheers’ to my beloved sausage.

© Anthony North, November 2007

PAY AS YOU THROW

Councils in England are to be given permission to charge for rubbish thrown away. This ‘pay-as-you-throw’ scheme adds up to nothing more than an additional tax on an already over-taxed populace …
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THE TRUTH ABOUT LABOUR?

Leaked findings from Labour’s favourite think tank – Institute for Public Policy Research – has suggested the following: Flags other than the Union Jack should be used. Bishops should be thrown out of the House of Lords …
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TONY ON JACQUI SPLIFF AND OTHER NEWS

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JACQUI SPLIFF

The British media has been having fun since Home Secretary Jacqui Smith admitted she had smoke cannabis 25 years ago. Is she a suitable person, they ask, to be in charge of drugs policy?
Phone enquiries discovered that 7 Cabinet ministers had also sucked on the dreaded weed. Shock horror – the Cabinet is a bunch of comatose idiots who don’t know what they’re doing.
Absolutely true – but what has that got to do with the weed? I’m no lover of New Labour, and even less so now that Brownski is in charge. But I do get fed up with the hypocrisy of the British media.
In our younger days we all do things that don’t quite fit the person we become in later life. Taking drugs as a student has absolutely no bearing on our ability or suitability for high office. The words ‘stone’ and ‘glass houses’ come to mind.
Jeez! I can’t believe I’ve just defended a New Labour minister.

© Anthony North, July 2007

ONLY CATHOLIC IS THE TRUE CHURCH?

The pope has recently said that only the Catholic Church is a true church, with other denominations having no value in holy orders. He may have a point in one respect. The slightest hint of a slur about Islam and the world was up in arms. But hardly a whimper about this ‘slur’ on Protestantism …
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SEND IN THE CLONES

Professor Keith Campbell, creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, has said that farmers should take up cloning as a source of cheap food. The US is already taking steps in this direction …
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