Today’s front page is all about Northern Ireland, and what is considered to be a remarkable meeting yesterday between Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams. These guys have been enemies for years. It is something of a big shift for Paisley who said he would never meet with Terrorists. Whilst Gerry Adams fronts Sinn Fein, a political party, it has been as much a front for the IRA over the years. And so, an unlikely meeting happened. Up front it looks like these two have put the future of Northern Ireland ahead of their grievances – which should be lauded. But it was done purely because it suited both parties from a political perspective, and you can’t help but feel that old issues will resurface and it will all end in tears again. Maybe that is just me being a cynic.
Iran taking 15 military personnel as prisoners has now slipped to page 4. Why ? I don’t understand this. We are told here that the 15 were in Iraqi territory, and not Iranian. I don’t understand why our government are not being more pushy about this, and why this hasn’t escalated further. Probably because the picture isn’t as clear as I think it is.
Closer to home, Ellie got her first Brownie badge last night. She got her entertainment badge. The pack all had to do various entertainments, whilst the parents suffered, er I mean watched. Ellie did well, she had to sing a song on the stage on her own, and later she recited a poem she had learned. Very pleased with herself she was.
Oh well, on with my work… there is plenty of it.
Paul's life... too boring to be of interest to anyone 
My Views
The Hostage taking of the 15 service personnel, Yes it a diplomatic nightmare that I sure has more reasons than the obvious, but Iran now have a bargaining piece that they can now exchange hostages with the Americans, as they have quite a few in Baghdad and Faluja and this is embarrassing to Iran, so this stalemate will go on till they eventually come to an agreement that will result in a prisoner exchange, but youl notice that the price of Oil has gone up because of this situation, and that means that the whole world will have to pay extra for fuel, and who benefits from this Arabs and who are the main supplies the oil Iran, and the Arab states, when this is over it will take months to get the oil prices down again so Governments in oil producing countries will all benefit from the revenue generated by increased tension over a country that supports terrorism. Iran also know that America & Britain will never attack them and they are quite arrogant about this to the point that they will exploit it as much as possible as a weakness, and as for NATO or the UN they couldn agree to organise a drinks party in a brewery, this is also being exploited by Iran.
My Argument is why are they releasing the female Navy service person? After all I sure one or more of the other servicemen have kids as well, or is it that she just nagged them into submission? And they couldn stand it any longer? (anything for an easy life) he he he