It’s nearly time to venture out on the long and winding road, more commonly know as the M25. Only another 30 minutes and I can suffer the frustration of trying to get through the Dartford Tunnel. Hopefully, fingers crossed it won’t be too bad, looking out of the window the traffic seems to flowing freely in both directions, and there are no incidents on the traffic report so I could be lucky.

Have just checked the weather forecast, looks like this lovely weather will shortly becoming to an end, according to BBC website rain is forecast for Friday and Saturday, shame I was really enjoying this hot and sunny weather.

A couple of articles taken from the BBC website

Former Premiership footballer Steve Claridge has been found guilty of dangerous driving. Coventry Crown Court heard he undertook cars at about 100mph in "treacherous" conditions on the M42 near Solihull, West Midlands, on 30 December 2006. Claridge, 42, who denied the charge, said he reached just above 70mph as he tried to exit the M42 to find a toilet.

He was pulled over by an unmarked police car on the southbound carriageway between junctions 4 and 3, the jury was told. Nigel Wilkins, prosecuting, accused Claridge of a "consistent piece of dangerous driving".

He said he drove at high speed on wet roads, repeatedly switching lanes, causing other motorists to "brake sharply in order to let him in".
The court heard that when he was pulled over, Claridge told police: "I was desperate for the toilet."

Pc Keith Dyson told the court: "As I started speaking to him, he started jumping up and down on the hard shoulder, holding his crotch and acting like a child who is desperate to go to the toilet." He added: "He continued to jump up and down in what I deemed to be an embarrassing action." Claridge told the court he was driving home from Blackpool after compiling a scouting report when he was pulled over in his silver Peugeot 307. He admitted undertaking two cars but denied driving dangerously. Speaking after the verdict, Claridge said: "I am really disappointed and shocked.

"It's going to affect my work, but I have got to accept the decision now and I have got to get on with it." He will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court in the week commencing 9 June.

In Another Incident

14-year-old old boy has been sentenced to youth detention for stealing a car and driving it at more than 110mph in a police pursuit. The child, who cannot be named, drove the VW Touran 30 miles from Hull to Scunthorpe chased by five police cars and a police helicopter.

Hull Magistrates' Court was told the boy, then aged 13, was arrested after he crashed into three parked cars.
He was sentenced to eight months in youth detention.

The youth was told at sentencing that he had endangered the lives of dozens of motorists and pedestrians. The court heard the boy stole the car from the Hull care home at which he was staying following an argument about his pocket money. He sped off from the city centre, weaving in and out of traffic on the Humber Bridge at more than 80mph. Then, pursued by the police cars, he drove past a roadblock and along the hard shoulder of the M180 at more than 110mph. When he reached Scunthorpe he crashed into the parked cars and fled on foot, before being arrested

A 20 year old man who dived from the pier at Southesea in a practice known as ‘tombstoning’ has broken his neck and may never walk again. This act of lunacy has ruined this young mans life. This is not the first instance of an accident like this. Most of them are fuelled by drink, I am sure that we will hear more instances like this during the summer.

Do I have any sympathy not in the slightest, you reap what you sow?

My asthma is playing up this morning am feeling a little breathless and my breathing is laboured, have just taken a couple of shots of ventolin and its becoming easier already. Thank god for the wonders of modern medicine.

I haven’t had a full blown asthma attack for ages. Saying that I did have one at the end of last year, I collapsed on the living floor really struggling for breath, Rosemary and Caz were really frightened, they had never seen anybody having attack before and don’t think they want to see one again.

I was watching a comedy on TV; in fact it was ‘My Family’ I was laughing so much that I stated coughing which triggered an asthma attack, talk about die laughing, thankfully I recovered after some medication and a good paramedic.

Have just received an email, informing me that I have an annual appraisal on Monday at 10:00, I have to go through the objectives I set on my last appraisal so see if I have met them. I also have to evaluate myself, and set new objectives before the meeting with my line manager on Monday.

My line manager has do the same exercise before our meeting on Monday, during the appraisal we have to agree the evaluation and my coming objectives for the next reporting period.

This is my first annual appraisal with this company, but I did have an appraisal after my probation period in January. Hopefully it should be ok, the annual bonus depends on the outcome of the annual appraisal, but because I have only been with this company since October am not expecting a bonus. Saying that I don’t think anybody in the company has received a bonus for the last two years, apart from the directors that is.

Can Boris really solve the problems on the streets of London, hopefully he can? We can not continue on the road we are travelling. On average a teenager was murdered last year every two weeks and we have started this year in the same vain.

But this is a not a problem that can be solved by one person alone, the police, politicians, community and probably the most important people to help solve this crime is the young people themselves.

The older generation like me, no longer know the minds of the youth today. Things are totally different now to when we grew up, the things that were important us are no longer relevant to the youth of today.

The vast majority of the youth today are far more intelligent than my generation. The teenagers that I have come into contact are on the whole polite and generally considerate of other people. The trouble is caused by only a small handful of kids, misguided into thinking that being a member of gang will bring them respect. Unfortunately this is not the case; in fact the reverse is true, these are the kids we need to educate.

Respect is earned through many things, hard work, dedication and honesty to name a few. The media have laid the blame on the parents of these kids and rightly they should share some of the blame, however society must take the majority of the blame we have a culture now have a culture of drug taking, binge drinking and having things straight away.

I doubt that gang culture, knife and gun crime will go away any time soon, we should prepare ourselves for more teenage deaths. Sad isn’t it?

It seems that a day does not go by; that we hear about another person who has been the victim of knife crime. In London it seems to have reached epidemic proportions. The latest, a 20 year old man was stabbed to death outside McDonalds, on Oxford Street yesterday evening in the rush hour.

On Saturday, Jimmy Mizen, a 16 year old boy was murdered because we wanted to avoid a fight.

Boris Johnson the new mayor of London has made a priority to reduce youth crime and the gang culture that goes with, I wish him luck, something has to done and quick. It unacceptable that we lose one life though knife crime, but the number of young people killed in the last 12 months is beyond believe.

My mother in law is fine after general anaesthetic; they were waiting for me by the main entrance when I got to the hospital. So it was a quite simple task, we got her home with no problems at all.

I don’t know what she had done exactly but it did involve sticking big needles into her hips and pelvis, sound quite painful to me, and at 83 years old must not be a pleasant experience.