Long time no ramble!!

Greetings , and welcome to the first of perhaps many further ramblings from the mind of a seemingly middle aged Yorkshireman.

Given the day is of great import to the White Rose clad amongst us it seems an appropriate time to return to publishing inane drivel on the net.

You will see to your right a link to my very last ramblings which I'm led to believe were all in a good cause and of some amusement to my public if only for the food references on a daily basis.

I can safely say that since those exploits, I've sold the velocipede and ridden a grand total of 25.2 miles (mostly with troublesome sons for company), put on around a stone in weight, had trouble getting my arse out of bed on a morn and generally been a pain in it, to all and sundry.

I've changed jobs, somehow lost money in doing so, continued to support the Giants in their demise, bought 3 season tickets for the football for £100, "revised" certain parts of the garden, gained 3 more "offspring" in the form of laying hens and still found time on occasion to bake ginger biscuits.

The world as a whole has gone from a semi-joyful nuthouse (if you ignore the wars and the turmoil etc) to a full blown funny farm run by television "personalities" and people who would be king for a day. Credit crunch, recession, redundancies, oil prices, fuel poverty, negative equity you name it we've got it all and if you add into the mix global warming and the fact no team from the British Isles made it to Euro 2008, God help us we really are knackered and all that in a year.

Still though plenty of reasons to be cheerful, we are starting to get our own eggs, my silly tan lines have all but disappeared, it's stopped raining, smog etc is likely to make the Olympics in China a great springboard for the 2012 Olympics, Boris Johnston keeps us all amused in his role as London Mayor and we have a Chancellor whose eyebrows don't match his hair!

Anyway that kind of sums up what's changed since I last blogged, so next time maybe I'll have something more portentous to say (that is if I can spell it!)