Poddys Rambles On

The Bournemouth Arts By The Sea festival was a great success this year, boosting customers for a number of local businesses and encouraging tourists to visit this seaside town, according to The Bournemouth Echo . The Arts By The Sea festival ran from September through to mid October, and featured 74 events, many of which sold out. One of the events, a Robert Louis Stevenson walk (the famous author lived in Westbourne for some years), usually attracts about 20 visitors, but this time 120 turned up for this event. The events which are held in a number of locations around the town, including the sea front and lower gardens, are a great boost to tourism in the area and a great reason to visit Bournemouth at the end of the summer season.

Where is all our Green Belt going?  There are constant requests in the UK to build new houses on open spaces and farmland, and what is left of our once beautiful island is slowly but surely being destroyed forever. It's the same in many countries, the population is increasing and there is an increased need for new homes to house them. In the UK in particular, which is a small and overcrowded island, the Government are caught in a position where they need to build more houses to cater for the population explosion, and at the same time this means destroying parts of the Green Belt which cannot be replaced. One of My Pet Peeves is that the Government ought to take a lateral view of this, and look for ways to decrease the population, rather than build more homes and allow it to increase further. Whether this is done by reducing the number of migrants to the UK (there are thousands each year who enter from Eastern Europe), to reduce child benefits etc (many people living on ben...

If you haven't found time yet to do something fun for Halloween, don't forget to browse through this collection of Funny Halloween Pictures and crack open a few smiles as you see what some clever people have done to make you laugh through the Spooky Season. http://amplify.com/u/a1edni

Do you have moments when things just drive you crazy and you need to vent and get things off your chest? It might surprise you to learn just how many other people feel exactly the same as you do about things. My Pet Peeves is a great place to read all about other people's Pet Peeves and to blow off steam and tell the world about your own as well. So is it time to get things off your chest? If not now, bookmark this page for when you need to come back and get vocal about the little things that drive you mad. http://amplify.com/u/a1ednh

Sunday 9th October marked one year since the death of Zecharia Sitchin , a remarkable man who spent his life trying to unravel the many mysteries from man's ancient past that have remained hidden for thousands of years. In translating and re-interpreting ancient Sumerian texts, Zecharia Sitchin may have uncovered the truth about man's creation, or if not the truth then something close to it. His books describe in detail commonalities between the Old Testament, and stories from Sumeria and Egypt, and in my case leave the reader convinced that the history books that we learned from at school are wrong. If you enjoy reading books like Erick Von Daniken's "Chariots Of The Gods" or about the legend of Atlantis, I am sure you will enjoy reading about Zecharia Sitchin .

This is a creepy Halloween story, not for the squeamish http://poddys.qondio.com/my-woman-cries-day-and-night - I hope you enjoy it. http://amplify.com/u/a1e324