Since we women are so easy to please:diablo:,today it was
the honey scent of the viburnum outside the post office
the fact that I can still buy luscious British raspberries in November
you can now buy slabs of cheese flavoured with Marmite !

Feeder,Snow Patrol ,Blue and Westlife,all with my daughter.
Mr. Bee’s not keen on music,though he did take me to a Roger Whittaker concert once.I couldn’t tell you what it was like,I fell asleep.
She saw Linkin Park again last night and said they get better every time.

You’re probably right.I banged it into my daughter from an early age,but then being born in 1947 I’m much nearer the war than most of her contemporaries’ Mums.
It paid off,because she buys and wears one without being reminded,but only one of her friends does the same.

Always buy one and wear it,I was brought up to acnowledge the gratitude I owe to anyone who served their country and bought the freedom I enjoy with their life.
One of those freedoms is to choose whether or not to show that you’ve given to a good cause.Personally I never take a sticker if I put something in a collecting tin.It always seems to signify.” Look at me ! I give to charity ! “,but a poppy seems different somehow.For all I know,many people may give to the appeal every year but just don’t want to advertise the fact.
One thing I have noticed,and it seems the same every year,is that it’s mainly older people who wear poppies.At least that’s what it looks like round here,far fewer under-thirties,and virtually no teenagers.Has anyone else noticed that,or am I just getting even more short-sighted ?

How anyone with an ounce of compassion can justify withdrawing daily care from a person of 94 is beyond me.
At the moment I’m seeing people in their 80s and 90s every day and it’s quite an eye-opener.I can’t imagine what it must be like to be so old,dependent on younger people for so much.Most of them are so grateful for the least little thing you do for them.
At least he’s in sheltered accommodation,so should have somebody to watch out for him every day.But what an appalling way to treat an old man.

Ah that’s lovely,have a wonderful day and congratulations to you both.
Mr. Bee and I are clocking up 40 years next year,marriage is a wonderful institution ( and I never thought I’d be living in an institution so long ).
You’ll be keeping in touch during the honeymoon,won’t you ?:diablo:

I perceive a clear distinction between a journalist who has a remit to “seek out the truth” and a civil servant who has sworn to respect an oath of secrecy.

That doesn’t mean to say that I agree with whistle-blowing per se, but the distinction is important. I would have thought that journalists who expose “foul play” so long as law abiding individuals and the security of their country are not compromised, would be applauded. It would be interesting to hear your daughter’s reasons for her strongly felt comment.

What I could gather through the Red Bull fumes ( she has a college assignment that’s overdue ),is that whilst she’s starting out on her career she doesn’t have the confidence to carry off a major exposure,if she found one,and thinks that making a hash of it would make her unemployable.
I’d be interested to know why you don’t agree with whistle-blowing.If you found something going on that you genuinely felt was wrong,as in kev’s example of Stafford Hospital,wouldn’t you feel morally obliged to expose it ?
As for the official secrets act,I’d feel less guilty about breaking that promise than I would if I found something which I thought was quite unacceptable and kept silent.
As it is,the only official secret I think I found out was which day the tea trolley had the home-made eccles cakes.

Yes,an interesting article.
As someone with ( thank God ) no experience of war,I feel strongly that it’s not for me to sit in judgement of anyone who finds themself in that situation.I understand that,given reasonable limits, unpleasant things happen.
It’s the concept of whistle-blowing that interests me.I was talking it over with the sprog last night,and like me she’s got a well-developed conscience ( she’s a horribly accurate mini-me actually ).
Much to my surprise,she told me that when she gets into journalism she could never be a whistle-blower or she’d never work again.
Is this really the case ? Are people who expose an inconvenient truth really despised ?