Womblin’s World

Wear red tomorrow, the 28th of September 2007. Show support for the peaceful protesters in Burma.

People ARE dying. Running reports can be found at the Guardian’s NewsBlog, and HERE, at Ko-Htike’s blog spot — one very brave person who continues, despite incredible personal danger, to tell the world what is happening.
Quote taken from the live chat box on Ko-htiks’s site a couple of minutes ago: komg: I see all from […]

In Burma, a group of the most peaceful, compassionate and unassuming human beings are being shot at for demonstrating against the violent regime running their country on bribes and hypocrisy. They have no weapons. The people supporting them have no weapons. Today and yesterday, there were shots fired at them, and still another news report […]

An anthology of stories as recalled by Edward Perkins who was a child during The Great Depression in Texas. Eddie Perkins’ childhood memories come alive in this book and are recounted by Marva, his daughter. She calls the tales true but “tall”, as fact is embroidered with a little well-founded fiction to bring us a […]

This weekend, I did this for the first time and was gobsmacked by the amount of CRAP produced along only a small stretch of Wales’ coastline. Wow, our species is sooooo messy and uncaring. Yes uncaring, and here’s why:
A couple of weeks ago I was out and about at a hot-air balloon festival where there […]

Two in a week.
I liked Colin. He was a people’s hero type of bloke. Yeah, he drove cars very quickly, lived a fast and dangerous life many can only dream of, but he seemed to be an okay guy.
The sadness in this case is that his five-year-old son also died with him. Too young to […]

I am truly saddened to hear of the death of Anita Roddick. She died yesterday of a massive brain haemorrhage aged only 64 years old.
This woman pioneered fair-trade, human rights, beauty without cruelty… All this and still she made a fortune. She worked for feminism by getting her hands dirty, by challenging the male-dominated world […]

I read this on a BBC website today and wonder if any editors speed read whilst working. I know I don’t. Indeed, I don’t think it possible for me to read anything between 1000 and 1400 words per minute anyway, let alone edit them. And I have to admit that I’m hard pushed to believe […]

I know it’s not technically reading, but I discovered this today. Good, eh? It gives me a chance to indulge my weakness for the well-endowed voice — and especially the rough-velvet timbres of Sir Richard Burton — performing auditory massage on my poor, abused ears. Nothing like a Thomas classic while packing ready for a […]

How many books a year do you read, and has this amount anything to do with how much sex you’re having? Take part in a small, cozied-up survey over on Bryan D Catherman’s blog.