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Blog: Our addiction to smart phones is depressing

Blog: Watching GMTV this morning with bleary 7am-eyes, I was half listening as Lorraine chewed over the latest survey with her showbiz guests. Apparently Yahoo have been studying our texting, tweeting and e-mailing habits, and the results are depressing if not altogether surprising.

Blog: Our addiction to smart phones is depressing

Blog: Enjoy the sun while it shines on you

Blog: What a week we’ve had! Wall to wall sunshine rarely seen in our damp and drizzly land, beautiful! I’m not one of life’s sunbathers but at least I can choose to go and fry myself golden brown if I want to.

Blog: Enjoy the sun while it shines on you

Blog: Country shows reveal what’s great about rural life

Blog: Despite the drizzle and general weather despair, I went and flew the flag at the Llanfair Caereinion District Show recently and it reminded me just what’s so brilliant about our local shows – well it wouldn’t be a show without wellies and umbrellas, would it? writes Emma Suddaby

Blog: Country shows reveal what’s great about rural life

Blog: Things are changing for the disabled

Blog: Things are finally changing for disabled people thanks to updated Government policy, technological advances, and most importantly, changing attitudes – we’re more used to seeing folk with weird and wonderful disabilities out there getting on with life, rather than being housebound by inequality, writes Emma Suddaby.

Blog: Things are changing for the disabled

Blog: Community spirit alive and doing excellent job after riots

There are times when I wonder quite what possessed me to move so deep into the Welsh hills, writes blogger Emma Suddaby . . . and then I turn on the news and remember.

Blog: Community spirit alive and doing excellent job after riots

Blog: Bring on the lynch mob

Blog: Long ago in this fair land of ours, suspected criminals were chased down and set upon by lynch mobs, jostled through the streets to mocking cries.

Blog: Bring on the lynch mob

Blog: Save our countryside from the march of the pylons

Blog: Last time I wrote about the great pylon debate I said I needed time to decide which side of the fence to be on and, as promised, I’ve spent many hours since researching the seemingly murky roots of the so-called ‘low-carbon revolution’.

Blog: Save our countryside from the march of the pylons

Blog: Times are hard when criminals target charities

Blog: So terrible to hear of the armed robbery of the West Midlands Air Ambulance depot recently.

Blog: Times are hard when criminals target charities

Blog: Not long now until we’re just brains in jars

Blog: You know, in a strange way we have almost fulfilled our own futuristic, sci-fi predictions on the progression of the human race, writes Emma Suddaby.

Blog: Not long now until we’re just brains in jars

Blog: There’s more to life than what you weigh

Blog: It certainly seems Royal-fever has swept the nation, the world even, and the media spotlight is firmly fixed on our next generation of young Royals – glued, in fact, to their every move.

Blog: There’s more to life than what you weigh

Blog: Didn’t he do well? Do well, didn’t he do?

Blog: Oh, the relief of hearing that Bruce Forsyth has finally been awarded a knighthood.

Blog: Didn’t he do well? Do well, didn’t he do?

Blog: Back home from hospital

Blog: Well readers, I’m pleased to be able to announce to those who have stuck with me through the thick and thin of my many medical disasters over the last two years, I’m finally home from hospital and this time . . . I think we’ve cracked it.

Blog: Back home from hospital

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