Henrys Journal

Say Goodbye To The Chocolate Fiend

When I was growing up, I must confess that I was a bit of a chocolate monster/ Actually I was more than a bit of a chocolate monster…I was seriously out of control, like an animal that just did stuff because it felt like it. Whenever I was near chocolate I was overcome by an intense urge to pick it up and scoff it, and nothing anyone could say to me could possibly stop me from launching an assault at More

Making It Happen

I love the idea of recycling, because it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Re-using things is always the best decision. Much better than making yet more plastic, which will take absolutely ages to bio-degrade and will probably always be kicking around in one form or another.

My problem with recycling is this: it’s a bit of a pain, isn’t it? Like when you walk down the street, where do you put your plastic? In the bin. And what about your More

Benefits Of Water

Don’t worry, I’m not one of those water-freaks who can’t stop banging on about how good water is. Far from it…the stuff is tasteless, sometimes disgusting, and nowhere near as good as squash or a pint of lager. But then again, it is the thing which all life springs from, so maybe we shouldn’t give it such a hard time. It’s transparent and you can swim through it too. Try doing that with Coke (note: please don’t: you know what More

Do They Think We’re All Thick?

The title of this article has to come to mind when tuning-into The One Show, doesn’t it? What else can come to mind in all honesty? I can cope with items about the World Wars – again… – and at least semi-informative ones that give something to us, but what I can not cope with is stuff they obviously should have left on the cutting-room floor.I have nothing against hearing about a different aspect of a World War, by the More

This Is About A Boy Named Doug

As you will know if you’ve read my About Me bit, I often say stupid or ridiculous things. Like “…pull up a chair” in reference to my blog. I’m not the only one, of course. Lots of people say stupid things all the time and most of the time it feels as though so much stupidity is being said – enter my good friend alcohol – that you have to ask yourself: where do ridiculous sayings and expressions come from?

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Causes of Droopy Eyelids

Yesterday I was online searching for good hotels in Looe when my good friend Michael stopped by and was telling me about his droopy eyelids..at least what his doctor has said. We went online and did a search on the subject.

Droopy eyelids or “Ptosis” is a condition where a person’s upper eyelid droops downward. This condition can affect one or both the eyes of a person. The severity of this condition also varies More

An Idiot Abroad

If you’re a Sky viewer or you’ve wandered around HMV recently, you will most likely have come across the DVD which holds the same name as the title of this article; who knows, someone might have even deemed you worthy enough to have received it as a present. For those who did themselves a favour and didn’t bother to brave the terrible hustle and bustle of pre-Christmas 2010 shopping, here’s a brief summary of AIA: chimp-like man called Karl Pilkington More

To Be A Listener Is Good

A friend who recently moved away to Northern Ireland to look for Special Needs Teaching Jobs recently bestowed upon me a most gracious of accolade: he said I was a good listener. I took this compliment to heart. I’d been trying for some time to be a better listener, and finally here was proof that all the hard work was finally paying off at last! It was a good day, I can tell you.

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Where’s The Limit?

Being at uni and without any children of my own yet – hopefully for a long time to come – it’s not often I find myself thinking about children and how their playing habits have changed over the years. But recently I was forced to think about this, when I saw an A4 photo-copied sheet on a lamp-post saying that there was a sexual predator living in the area and that children should not be allowed to play outside.

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The Ponderer

Every now and again I hear something that sticks in my head. Like what I heard on TV last night (just after one of them amazing good call Fosters beer adverts: it was a psychologist talking about how we, as humans, have a need to love ourselves, yet when we love ourselves too much it’s considered very bad, and when we don’t love ourselves enough then…well, that’s also bad, and it’s called “low self-esteem”, and that causes all kinds of More