While away I decided to have a break away from keeping up with the news, other than catching the odd headline. Normally I would buy the Guardian but decided against that this year as it normally takes me the whole morning to read as I get sucked in and, understandably, others get upset that I am hiding in the newspaper.

Catching up on the news it seems I have returned to a different Britain. To new times maybe? Some great people have been lost such as Robin Cook and Mo Mowlam. Their voices, personalities, and natural integrity will be missed.

On the issue of integrity it would seem that, if newspaper reports are true, that Ian Blair has misled us, or been misled, over the terrible shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. I really hope this will not lead to a realisation of deliberate cover up. The fact that this has happened, however, should concern us all in a country where we are proud of our freedom of speech and ability to move and speak without hindrance and censorship.

A man of great integrity, a real modern day saint, Brother Roger who founded taize was murdered last week during a worship service. Another sad, and very shocking, loss.

I blogged a while back on doughnuts costing £1 at Bluewater. I saw at the weekend news about lunches for £400 in London. I am amazed that people will even pay this, yet alone have the balls to charge such an amount. With extreme poverty highlighted over the last few weeks it sickens me that people will waste such valubale resources! It’s a flipping crazy world!

On a separate and much lighter note – I sense my relaxedness going so need to bring it back; Gills are unbeaten in League 1 and currently lie 4th in the table. New times indeed!