Let’s chill out!

If I’ve noticed a change in anything over the years, it has been an ever increasing need for speed and not far removed from impatience!

Take the car. Whilst driving along the M25 on my way to Southampton the other day, we suddenly met with a really bad downpour. I moved into the slow [...]

For the last eight days, Kent and other surrounding Counties have been experiencing some pretty harsh weather, culminating with freezing rain through the night of Tuesday. With a temperature of minus 8, this meant that by morning, the County was at a standstill.
The Train Service was non-existant, complete chaos. The Operating Companies Website indicated there [...]

by Special Correspondent Dick Brayne
The first major part of the Down the Lane restructuring and redevelopment programme was officially opened yesterday. Rumoured to have a final cost of just over 3 figures, the new Office rises from the ground in splendid glory to just over six feet and on a clear day can be [...]

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We Brits have a habit of allowing certain things to carry us away in a manner apt only for some other Planet it seems.
Before I opened the Curtains this morning I heard the horrific headline on the Radio News, “Snow grips Kent”. Blimey I thought, better have a look and oh by gosh, there it [...]

Now you may on first sight think this as being a bit of a micky take. But it isn’t, I wear dentures now and have done since last December, so what this is about is realising what I’ve done and observed others doing the same.
So if you denture wearers don’t want to send out any [...]

After all the ups and downs of making the Appointment a few days ago, I duly arrived at the Doctors for my consultation.
I thought I’d save the young Receptionist ladie’s time by registering myself ‘in’ on that new Computer Gadget they have. Quite rightly, the screen told me I had an appointment at 0930 with [...]

Going to see the Doctor for most, used to be just turning up and joining a queue of about 2 hours and catching about 15 other germs whilst doing it.
But, the powers to be came up with a pretty good idea and made seeing your Doctor by appointment only.
For a while this seemed quite acceptable. [...]

A Budget in excess of 75p, a cast of thousands (if you include the Fleas), 40 minutes in the making - this really will get Jonathan Ross on the edge of his seat for Film 2008.
See what lays behind the Web Site, see the Staff at work, see the splender of an afternoon when I [...]

My camera was a bit strange this morning and whilst waiting to see the Dentist, had a fiddle with it. Aiming it at the Magazine Stall, it went off and it was after that I noticed all the other magazines spread around.
Firstly I should say it’s nothing against my Dentist, he’s the best and nicest [...]

For nearly two hours on Sunday, the Lane was seized in the grips of a violent snowstorm which nearly covered all of the grass.
Starting in mid-afternoon the sequence of fear was as follows.
16.02hrs - A massive search for missing Ginger the Cat got underway. He was found some two minutes later asleep in the [...]