Daily Rant

I started smoking at 17 and continued for 18 years. I went through all the highs and lows smokers experience and made all the typical comments :-
"Its my health so its my problem"
"I can stop anytime I like"
"These chest pains arent smoking related"
"Its just a cold"
"I enjoy smoking"
etc etc etc
I even had days (and im not alone in this) where I thought that if I dont wake up tomorrow because of smoking, then I had better smoke more today.

I read a very famous book on stopping smoking. Im not going to say what it is as im not here to advertise and make money for others but its the main one. It works, trust me on that. I stopped one month ago and I have been out running every day for the last 3 weeks. Like most smokers, I tried patches and gum but the truth is they just delay the craving.

I truly recommend stopping smoking. Do you remember the last time you woke up and actually felt healthy? I waited 18 years for that feeling and it truly is worth it.
Im not going to be a nightmare ex-smoker, I dont complain about others smoking but I just feel better.

Its rains in the UK, we know that. We need umbrellas to get through our daily lives unscathed. Why do they have little pointy things all round the outside that abviously are a danger to anyone within a yard or two. I personally have split the skin on someones head by accidentally banging into them. Thankfully it was a friend so I escaped lightly. I think its about time they placed rounded parts instead of pointy parts on brollies. Also as a side point, wh black umbrellas? A friend of mine has a transparent blue umbrella as she said its always a blue sky then. Theres definite logic there. Certainly if all the businessmen started carrying brighter brollies then the city would cheer up a bit in the dark winter months.

As theres so many laws now for dropping just about anything on the ground, I think its about time we discussed horse poo. I myself dont have a dog but regularly walk my friends dog. If it was to poo on a footpath and I left it then I could be fined. I dont disagree with this as I dont particularly like picking poo from the soles of my shoes so that is not my issue.
Horse poo is my issue. If there is a sports or music events as there so often is here, there will usually be police horses used for crowd control. A sensible idea but its common for there to be huge piles of horse poo on roads and footpaths. They attract flies, smell, take skill and alertness to avoid (especially on a unicycle) and are just a huge mess.
Im wondering if 'citizens arrests' still exist so that we can confront the police and ask them to clean up after themselves. I honestly believe that if I followed them with a dog and the dog pooed on their horse poo, I would be fined. Police you do a great job but please keep the streets clean(er).

Can someone tell me the point of unicycles? Having lived for 33 1/2 years without seeing one, I have seen 4 in the last 18 months. Now im not talking about visits to the circus but people riding them down the streets of London. Whats wrong with a full bike? Theres obvious advantages - you wont wobble so much so no one will laugh, they dont take years to learn to ride, you dont look stupid, if you wear a helmet on a unicylce you look extremely stupid as its an admission you cant ride properly - for a bike its just safety, they cant ride uphill, they cant ride downhill, they dont really have any brakes and even though you buy less than half a bike you pay more than double the money.
Basically theres no obvious advantages to riding a unicycle so please please just buy a full bike.

Having just returned to the UK after 4 months away, I was truly (and foolishly) hoping to find that all the talentless and pointless celebs had all packed up and left town. But no, it was not to be. Why oh why are people in this country so osbessed with people like Jade Goody, Victoria Beckham, Cheryl Cole etc etc. THey have genuinely proven they have little or no talent and nothing of any value to offer us.
Programmes like Big Brother are mind numbing, boring and downright scary viewing and lets be honest, the only people who enter are so desperate for fame that they will embarrass themselves in and out of bed just so millions of uneducated and uninspiring people can watch and talk about it the next day over coffee. Is there really nothing better to do with your lives than encourage these pointless people.
Its one of the UKs great mysteries why we adore and encourage talentless people when theres actually so much talent trying to get through. Im sure theres many young genuinely gifted writers, musicians and actors out there who cant get a look in because we are so obsessed with the antics of the average Joe.
It is hilarious that these arrogant people will sit in front of a camera for a number of hours on odd phone in game shows and talk endlessly about how boring and pointless their lfe is.
I have spent time in Canada and parts of Europe where they just arent interested in fame like here. There may be one or two of these programmes but its in he middle of the night just to fill in the scheduling gaps but its an obsession here in the UK.

UK why do we encourage talentless people to become famous. Does it say something about the intelligence level of our population that we are so enthralled by this. Theres so much of the population working in bars, restaurants, warehouses etc that will work up to 70 hours a week just to survive and yet people with nothing to offer the world will go on to make millions just because they are famous for being famous.
Grow up UK, we are honestly an embarrassment in the eyes of the world