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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Problems Posting II

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Happy Royal Wedding Day

Union Jack
I wish you all a Happy Royal Wedding Day.

Weather permitting, we will be at one of the local street parties here.

I would like to take the opportunity to remind you that I have a recipe for an unbaked chocolate biscuit cake, similar to the one being made for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

It is loaded with calories, Nanny will hate it!

Unbaked Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Also on the site is a recipe for the Royal Wedding Trifle (a la Heston Blumenthal)

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Problems Posting

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Hi folks,

A loyal reader has emailed me asking if anyone else is having trouble posting comments here, or indeed on any of my other sites?

He has had trouble posting over the last couple of days.

Thanks

Ken

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The Dangers of Crosses

CrossI am not in the slightest way religious, I do not believe in god etc. However, so long as people do not try to force their beliefs down my throat, it is an individual's right to follow whatever religion he/she wishes.

Therefore I question the reaction of Wakefiled and District Housing (WDH) to Colin Atkinson's 8 inch cross, that he has displayed on the dashboard of his company vehicle for the last 15 years.

WDH received a complaint from a tenant, who demanded that he remove it for fear it could offend people or suggest that the company favoured Christians.

WDH asked Mr Atkinson to remove it, then called him to a disciplinary hearing after he refused to remove it.

It should be noted that it is not WDH policy to ban religious/political iconography; employees of other faiths are permitted to wear headdresses and turbans, and Mr Atkinson's manager has a poster of Che Guevara on his office wall.

However, following representations from various religious groups (including Muslims, Sikh, Christian, Hindu etc) WDH has decided that commonsense is better than "procedural correctness" and has allowed Mr Atkinson to continue to display his cross.

An absurd and stressful waste of time and energy!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Dangers of Bread

BreadDid you know that bread is dangerous?

No?!

Neither did I.

However, according to the new rules introduced at one of our local gastro pubs it is.

We were dining "gastro" last night, and had a sharing dish to start of olives, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and good quality warm ciabatta.

Rather than make complete pigs of ourselves, we left some bread and asked the waiter if he could "doggy bag" it.

No chance!

For why?

It seems that the gastro pub's interpretation of health and safety laws now views the taking of food off the premises (including bread) as a threat to the diners' health and safety.

"We cannot risk anything happening to you because you consumed food prepared here off the premises".

I have dined in weird, wonderful and crap establishments around the world over gazillions of years (see Restaurant Reviews), and I have never ever been told that before!

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Dangers of Bunnies

BunnyAs we wind down from a particularly sunny and warm Easter weekend, I am gemused to read that Nanny managed to put the kibosh on some Easter fun that a group of teenagers were planning to have this weekend.

Five of them were planning to visit Edinburgh Zoo dressed as four Easter bunnies and one spring chicken.

Can you guess what happened next children?

Yes, that's right, the zoo officials told them to take off their costumes.

For why?

Lest the animals in the zoo be "psychologically damaged"!

I can't but help wonder, given the appalling treatment meted out to animals over the centuries by humans dressed as humans, whether it is in fact less stressful for animals to see us in disguise.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Sneak Preview of Next Friday's Royal Wedding



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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Nanny Bans Bulldog

Conker Suit

A survey conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) highlighted the fact that 29% of those teachers surveyed had said that British Bulldog (a chasing game) had been banned in their schools.

Additionally, 14% said that pupils were banned from playing conkers and 9% said that pupils were not allowed to play leapfrog.

It is completely potty that schools have become so risk averse. Wrapping children in cotton wool in this manner means that they never develop a healthy attitude to risk management, or are able to cope in a mature way when things go wrong (as they always do in the real world).

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Prats of The Week - Barking and Dagenham Council

Prats of The WeekMy goodness, it has been quite a long time since I have awarded my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Award.

This week it goes to Barking and Dagenham Council.

For why?

They have an interesting policy wrt yellow lines (those normally used to designated areas where cars should not park).

In Ripple Road Barking the council have painted two 100m yellow lines on the actual pavement.

For why?

Seemingly the council believe that the yellow "tramway" will help guide pedestrians as to where they should walk!

For good measure, the lines are painted around pillar boxes and trees etc; lest anyone walk into them!

The council will decide in 3 months as to whether this scheme is worth continuing.

Barking and Dagenham Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Open Day

Hi folks,

Today is open day on Nanny Knows Best, where you can debate and chat about issues that irk you about the Nanny state.

Ken

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Friday, April 15, 2011

Nanny's Non Jobs



Given that as a nation we are skint (total debt is around £4.8 Trillion), it is depressing to read that since last May (when the coalition stumbled into power) 4,000 new posts have been created by local councils.

Such "vital" new roles include; "woodfuel development officer", "new media staff" and "healthy workplace coordinators".

Also included in the new roles are "life skills" experts, who teach members of the public basic tasks such as ironing.

Coming soon:

- "Wipe my arse" specialists!

This is of course completely potty.

Councils are deliberately ignoring the necessity to cut back (aside from cuts that they know will hurt the coalition), and have lost any sense of responsibility that they may once have had.

Councils have become the enemy of people!

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Social Engineering

Social Engineering
Nanny Cameron and Clegg are giving Oxbridge a hard time at the moment.

Their gripe being that not enough poor and ethnic minority pupils are being given the opportunity to study there and at other top universities.

This is somewhat ironic given that they are both from privileged backgrounds, and that they both went to Oxbridge.

When will Nanny learn that social engineering does not work, and that it invariably makes things worse?

Like it or not, educashun (beyond the 3 "R's") is a privilege not a right.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Street Parties

Brown BottleI am glad to see that David Cameron and the government have their priorities right!

Of prime concern to Nanny is the fact that there are not enough street parties being organised, especially in the North, to celebrate the forthcoming Royal Wedding.

It seems that London will have more than 500 street parties, whilst Manchester and Newcastle will muster only 28 between them.

Nanny is urging councils to forget about licences, insurance and other red tape so that people could "get on and have fun", as the Prime Minister put it.

That just shows how little the government understand how local councils operate. The councils have no intention of abandoning the red tape, they hate public events like this and will do all they can to hinder them.

My own local council, Brighton (Tory run), refuses to publicise where our street parties (over 20 of them) will be held.

For why?

They claim that they don't want people coming to these events uninvited!

Hello!!!

Isn't that the whole farking point of a street party??

Anyhoo, aside from council bureaucracy there are also two other reasons why there are fewer "organised" parties in the North:

1 It is wet at this time of year there.

2 The locals despise their councils even more than we do down South. Therefore, there is not a cat's chance in hell they will tell their councils that they are organising a party.

Enjoy the day folks, and ignore Nanny's petty little rules!

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Council Houses

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There was a good, and well presented, documentary on BBC 4 last night "The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House".

It presented a concise history of the council house from its beginnings in Shoreditch to the present day, and sought to understand why council housing has now become a byword for deprivation and social breakdown.

In a nut shell, the demise of council estates from homes that people were proud of and which they aspired to live in can be attributed to the following factors:

1 People are now better off, and take for granted TV's, indoor toilets, bathroom, washing machines etc. There is no folk memory of how bad things were before council houses.

2 The original council estates were highly selective wrt who was allowed to live there. Councils insisted that residents were employed, and that they maintained their property (wrt cleaning, grass cutting etc) according to a detailed rule book. The rule book has been all but abandoned.

3 The rule books used by the councils formed a contract between the tenants and the council. The tenants undertook to keep their homes in a decent condition, in return for which the council ensured that the environment surrounding the homes was properly looked after. Council tenants could pass on their homes to their children, thus giving them a stake in the community and a sense of belonging.

4 In the 1970s Labour changed the rules and allowed anyone deemed to be "deserving" to have a council house. The result being that local people were pushed aside in favour of people whom the councils deemed were "more deserving" (often based on a political agenda), ie the heart of local communities were ripped out and no one had a sense of belonging or responsibility towards the homes that the councils provided.

5 The quality of the council flats built in the 1960's and 70's were dreadful, they turned into the slums that they were meant to replace.

Councils have become the enemy of the people!

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Bin Brother - Nanny's Immoral Bin Tax Scrapped

Bin Brother

On the face of it, and I will wait to see the reality before celebrating (politicians never are entirely truthful), there may be some cause for celebration wrt one of Nanny's stealth taxes being abolished.

Central government will, apparently, stop local councils fining people for petty infringements of bin rules.

Ministers will limit local authorities' power to impose "immoral" charges and fines for minor mistakes to do with recycling and rubbish.

Only the most severe cases of fly-tipping will be subject to penalties.

However, as stated, I will only believe it when I see it. Councils cannot resist finding new ways to tax their long suffering taxpayers, remove this stealth tax and they will find another way to rob us.

Councils have become the enemy of the people!

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Friday, April 08, 2011

Nanny Bans Internships

BS

I am more than gemused to read that Nick Clegg has decreed that internships (unpaid work experience) is evil and wrong.

Seemingly it is now the career springboard of choice for "well connected" students etc, who need to add some real world experience to their CVs (given that value of Nanny's school and university qualifications is now so tarnished).

Quite how Clegg intends to stop companies and students coming to an "internship" arrangement (there is always a way around Nanny's rules) I don't know.

Anyhoo, the really gemusing thing is that Clegg himself employs unpaid interns in his parliamentary office.

Oh, and I also see that Clegg (when he was a student) was an intern himself (thanks to the connections of his father).

Oooh the irony!

These hypocritical politicians really make me sick!

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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Pussycat



Well done the four fire crews (consisting of five engines and 20 men) from Leiston, Bungay, Felixstowe and Bury St Edmunds who were dispatched to deal with an incident in Roberts Road, Leiston, on Monday.

The incident big a cat stuck on a roof.

The cat was rescued.

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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Prats of The Week - Euro Nanny

Prats of The WeekLawks a mercy, it has been a wee while since I have awarded my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Award.

Therefore, without further ado, I am delighted to be able to announce this week's winner.

None other than Nanny's European Commission.

For why?

The other week they came up with a "brilliant" idea to reduce carbon emissions (something, so we are told, that is very dangerous for all of us...if only Nanny was around when the first caveman lit his first fire!).

What is Euro Nanny's "brilliant" idea?

Ban petrol/diesel vehicles from city centres by 2050, and dictate that 50% of all journeys above 186 miles will be by rail.

Simples!

Seemingly, in Nanny's world, by 2050 we will have invented a decently performing electric car and the public transport system of every city in Europe will be first class.

Simples!

I know, let's use nuclear powered cars!

Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, said that Brussels directives and new taxation of fuel would be used to force people out of their cars and onto "alternative" means of transport.

The European Commission, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Morning Has Broken!



I had an early trek (up with the lark) to Brighton Station this morning with Eva, as she is popping over the Sweden for a couple of weeks.

My goodness me what an awful lot of people there were there milling around wearing hi vis jackets. These hi vis wearers were not just station staff, but also leafleteers, cleaners and statisticians/pollsters with clip boards.

All of them looked so self engorged with their own perceived sense of self importance and self satisfaction!

Tonk regularly says "just laugh at hi vis".

However, doubtless due to the unfeasibly early hour and the fact that I had consumed industrial quantities of brandy the night before, I had a real urge to thwack these self important people on their heads with their clipboards.

What is it about hi vis that is so damned annoying?

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Monday, April 04, 2011

Brain Matters

Brain

I see that scientists have conducted research that indicates (note I say "indicates") that aggressive, antisocial teenage boys with the condition known as conduct disorder (CD) have differences in the size and structure of parts of the brain that relate to empathy.

The study indicates that the differences are there, regardless of the age at which the patients developed the disorder.

However, it has yet to be "indicated" as to whether these brain differences are the cause of CD or are in fact caused by CD.

Suffice to say (as with so many other "excuses" used by certain parents and those with a political agenda) this research will be used by some to excuse the behaviour, and to abdicate responsibility for the CD of their offspring.

However, life is never really that simple; we cannot simple shrug our shoulders (when someone acts like a git) and say "well, it's genetic there's nothing we can do".

Bollocks!

Human society has been around long enough for each generation to have had its fair share of gits with CD, yet we have managed to survive and deal with those individuals.

The brain (even in those humans classified as super intelligent) is barely used, it has the capacity to achieve far more than we have ever yet tried to do with it. There are many people who have been struck down by strokes, severe autism, disabilities etc who with the correct stimulation can regain part (in some cases all) of their faculties as the brain rewires itself and compensates for shortcomings in certain areas.

As with any animal (humans are but a "nano chromosome" removed from animals) that is "acting up", corrective behaviour can be instilled into the animal via a mixture of kindness, patience, rewards and punishment.

A child that constantly ignores warnings not to put his hand into the flames will one day put his hands into the flames, but once burned he will never do that again.

The responsibility for correcting CD rests with the parents (in extreme cases with the appropriate support of professionals). Where the parents refuse to accept that responsibility, and let the child run amok in the community, then the situation can be addressed by taking away all of the family's "toys".

Specifically institute a family curfew every evening (confine the entire family to their house), and deprive them of their TV's, stereos, pcs, mobile phones etc. They would be forced (like it or not) to face each other very evening, without the distractions of their "toys". Eventually they would have to address (one way or another) their behaviour as individuals and as a group, and the consequences of that behaviour on themselves and others.

One way or another, empathy would be learned (even if the parts of their brains that normally deal with empathy are withered and redundant).

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Friday, April 01, 2011

The Royal Wedding Trifle

Following on from the recipe for the Unbaked Chocolate Biscuit Cake (similar to the one being served at the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton) that I featured on this site a few days ago, here is a version of the Heston Blumenthal Royal Wedding Trifle (soon to be sold by Waitrose).

- Royal Wedding Trifle

Nanny will hate this recipe as well!

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Noah's Dark



I have to confess that I chortled to myself more than a wee bit, when I recently read about a problem that "The Living Ark" has encountered.

The Living Ark is a classroom built by eco-campaigners three months ago, with a "zero carbon" rating, designed to be powered solely by the sun.

It is made of sustainable wood, sheep's wool and soil. The roof is of mud and grass, with solar panels attached.

Haringey council opened the Ark with great fanfare and self congratulatory orgasms.

So far so good!

There was, however, one small fly in eco Nanny's oinkment.

What was that then Ken?

The location!

You see my loyal readers, The Living Ark was built in North London at Muswell Hill Primary school.

Can you see the problem here children?

Yes, that's right, there is not enough sun in North London to power an entire classroom.

The pitiful North London sun only enabled them to power a few lightbulbs, as such children are not allowed into it because it is too cold.

By the way, the cost of this mud hut was £25K; paid for by the council taxpayers of Haringey.

There is of course one way to warm it up, burn the sustainable wood!

Anyhoo, in the meantime, this episode serves to remind us that in certain parts of the world (under current technological constraints) nuclear and fossil fuels will have to provide us with the majority of our energy needs for the foreseeable future.

Visit The Orifice of Government Commerce and buy a collector's item.

Visit The Joy of Lard and indulge your lard fantasies.

Show your contempt for Nanny by buying a T shirt or thong from Nanny's Store.

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Celebrate the joy of living with booze. Click and drink!

Visit Oh So Swedish Swedish arts and handicrafts

Why not really indulge yourself, by doing all the things that Nanny really hates? Click on the relevant link to indulge yourselves; Food, Bonking, Gifts and Flowers, Groceries