Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope and trust that 2011 will be a good year for us all and that we can stop a few bad things we started or continued last year and start a few good things we never got round to last year.

Twenty-Eleven. Sounds like a soft drink meets a holiday company. Happy New Year.

Christopher Jefferies in a blue tinted frame?

Or Are All Eccentrics Suspects?

The media, Twitter and any other form of communicaton is buzzing with notions and comments about Christopher Jefferies. As Facebook would say, "Not the Christopher Jefferies you were looking for?". Depends. Google, I think, means the Christopher Jefferies who is embroiled in the Joanna Yeates murder enquiry. It's definitely not this Christopher Jefferies.

All that aside, whatever happened about innocent until proved guilty? The BBC has recently been showing Garrow's Law. It was William Garrow who pushed so successfully for this concept to be part of English law. It would appear now that for many contempt of court and other such niceties are a thing of the past. The Daily Mirror is keen to emphasis that Christopher Jefferies was a "public school teacher" and then go on to mention that a convicted paedophile lived in one of the flats at one time. What does the Mirror know about it anyway? Innuendo, mainly.

I get the impression that eccentrics are getting a hard time. Possibly they always have. If there is any other man in the country with a blue rinse hairdo perhaps he is keeping a low profile. "Ooh Brian, your hair looks just like that eccentric's in the papers!" One has to wonder if any of this would have come about if Mr. Jefferies had been "normal" in the media's eyes.

When Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal a young female Murdoch minion suddenly took against Robert Murat and ran around saying he looked eccentric and behaved oddly. She of course had no evidence whatsoever. Just Sun-type prejudice. But it was enough for his private life to go through the mangle as well as the mill.

Let us remember that Mr.Jefferies has only been arrested. Evidence has to be gathered against people in order to bring charges. That is unless people want to forego that and just set up kangaroo courts on Clifton Suspension Bridge. It would be a very dull day indeed if all eccentrics were to vanish from British shores, or anywhere, just because people rushed to judgement. I find eccentrics make the icing on the cake as far as British society goes. I bet that when it comes to wrongdoing, the percentage is far less for eccentrics than it is, for example, politicians. Now there's a thought!

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Mugdha Godse sizzles in a white bikini

Help will feature the model-turned-actress' first bikini appearance for a film

As she has been a part of the modelling and ramp show world, getting into a two-piece for Help was no big deal for Mugdha Godse. The actress has done some bare-dare scenes for the horror thriller that has Bobby Deol as her co-star. Incidentally, in her debut film Fashion, she featured in one scene walking the ramp in a two-piece, but there, her lower half was covered in a wrap-around. "I wasn't conscious about wearing a bikini as it was a script requirement. But I had to work really hard to keep my body in shape." Ashley Rebello has done the styling for the film. She settled for a plain white bikini instead of the fluorescent, colourful ones."
She adds, "What was tough for me to portray the two looks I have in the film -- at certain times it was glamorous while other times it had to be ghastly." Directed by Rajeev Virani, Help is slated for an August 13 release. "It's a Friday the 13th and considering its subject the makers wanted it to be out on that day, " points out Mugdha who was earlier seen in Jail and All The Best.With the current focus on models and loneliness after Viveka Babajee's suicide case, Mugdha who has been living alone in the city alone says, "What really helps is to be sorted out in your head. This can go a long way in surviving alone in the city. A lot of time women fall for the wrong man that leads to emotional upheavals. At the spur of the moment, once in a blue moon, things can go wrong. That's when you need to have a 4 am friend or a family member who you are close to who can knock sense into you. Your close pals should be able to see the sadness in your happy face. Living alone is tough as you have to do everything yourself. All this is a learning process that ultimately makes you stronger. This equips you to withstand the pressures that are part and parcel of our profession."

Northern Ireland Water - logged and leaking!

Northern Ireland Water is in a terrible mess at the moment. Local people are realising that lack of water is the true cause of unrest. I see on the utility's website the response to "Who We Are" is "The trusted and reliable provider of Northern Ireland's most essential public service." Eau contraire, surely?

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A local councillor in Oldham, Cllr Ken Hulme of Delph says this of the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate. "I think he might get a surprisingly high vote - folk around here are pretty fed up with politics and politicians." The ultimate protest vote, eh?

As reported in the Oldham Advertiser.

Co-op Christmas pudding matures well!

Tonight I've had a healthy portion of a three-year old Christmas pudding bought from the Co-op. Tasted very good. Well past its sell-by-date, but that seems fairly irrelevant given that it matured well and was a very good quality pud. Well done Co-op!

"Christmas is over!" Or is it?

On Christmas Eve I was toying with the idea of getting a last minute gift. I went to the retail park and thought I'd pop into Homebase. The store looked rather unlit for the season. A man was standing outside, as if on guard. "Oh, are you closing?" I ventured. "Yeah, well, er, what do you want? Do you know exactly?" "Yes, yes!" I said,. "Well, in that case, be quick". I then added some remark about them closing earlier than the other stores. "Christmas is over!" he muttered. "Oh?" I said, "Whatever happened to the Twelve Days of Christmas?". He looked at me darkly.

Retailing used to comprehend Christmas. Then it became much more of Christmas-in-Advent. Woolworths was the first store in Britain to abandon the season of Christmas. Now look where they are. All the supermarkets get agitated on the 25th September. This is the date when the Christmas season starts for them. Forget about sell-by-dates. You can have five before Christmas Day if you are keen on mince pies. When questioned about the fact that they were stuffing shelves with Christmas fayre three months before the day, supermarket spokespersons blithely replied that customers liked a treat in advance. No wonder people have given up on Christmas come Boxing Day. They've been given too much beforehand.

Retailing is a vital element in our lives. We need retailers to sell us things that we require. But do we need to be so gullible, so easily led? Can we not enjoy Christmas when it comes, whether or not we are religiously minded? I have a fear that retailing may be the last chink to fly loose. We have surrended our manufacturing capabilities. We do have inventiveness, but that is sold to the Chinese and others. I bought a pair of decent pyjamas at Asda yesterday for £6. How much went to the Sri Lankan worker I do not know, but I hazard a guess it was not much. I'm pleased I got them, but I am getting a bit of a conscience twinge. Some tell me that there's not much I can do about it, apart from not buying things. But how can I do that when so much (probably everything) in superstores is made overseas?

At one time it was only MFI that had continual sales (except when they had promotions!) and MFI is now in retailing oblivion. Retailers are mixing "driving down costs" "tax increases" and "Made in China" into a potent concoction. How cheap everything can get is far from certain. Even before Christmas shops were offering "massive discounts" that one wondered if the New Year might see them in receivership. Price rises must surely come about just to keep businesses afloat. But that may well be where the trouble begins. It's all very well having stuff made in China, but if the Chinese workers feel they are the ones getting a raw deal, costs there will increase. And workers in the UK, Europe, USA, et al in the West will also clamour for better conditions.

Maybe British retailers should take a step back and look at things long term. For instance, does it make sense to spend so much carting apples around the world when they can be grown a few miles from the local shops? And is the quality of the fruit worth it all. We just got some strawberries which have the texture of apples. Why have these soft fruits got hard centres? Oh, and we bought a load of green bananas as they passed their sell-by-date. Does any of it make sense?

Stores need to be reborn themselves. Otherwise we may all go down, fighting over the last remnants in the penny bazaars!

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Hollywood bombshell Jessica Alba has said that she is too busy with her family life to feel conscious about her looks and does not think she is sexy.

The 'Sin City' star, who regularly appears in polls to find sexy stars, admitted that she is more worried about her daughter and husband than her appearance, E! online reported.

"I never feel sexy. I never do, and that's the truth. I'm always wondering when my next break is. I want to call home and talk to my husband or talk to my friends or check on my daughter. I'm never thinking I'm sexy," said the star.

The 29-year-old actress is one strict mother who does not want her 18-month-old daughter to follow in her footsteps and become an actress.

Alba said that she and her husband Cash Warren will support their daughter Honor Marie with whatever she wants to do in life so long as she doesn't go into show business.