Homesick for Bristol? How did that happen?

When I left Hertfordshire in September I was worried about being homesick. I was looking forward to coming back to Hertfordshire for 4 weeks at Christmas. I have now been home for 3 days and I am missing Bristol. I am happy to be home, but it doesn't compare to Bristol. I want to go to Park Street, walk down Whiteladies Road and have a pint of Gem in the vaults. Oh well, back to the 3 children and getting ready for Christmas.

Hey all!!!
What is it about music that can make you happy and sad? I was having a conversation with people today and I said that I had a happy song. They all thought I was crazy. My happy song is Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid. When I hear it, what ever mood I am in it cheers me up. I sing along and bounce around and I always feel better for it. I asked everybody else and they do not have one. So, if you do have one please share it with me so I do not feel as though I am the only person in the world to have a happy song!!!!

Why do people have such low opinions of young people? I watched Newsnight tonight where they were talking about young people and crime rates and how people are fed up with it. Professor Rod Morgan from the youth justice forum was saying that 7165 cases were bought to social services in one area and only 215 of these were put on the child protection list. I would like to know where these figures came from and the time period that it was in. Camilla Batmanghela was saying that it was the adults fault and that we were not showing them love. She also said that young people today were suffering form emotional poverty. They were also talking about how having an ASBO was something for young people to boast about and it was a cool thing to have. But why would young people think that having an ASBO is a good thing? is it that they have no respect for authority and are making a joke out of our criminal system? or is it a case of they know the police have no time to do anything about it so they probably wont face any further implications because the Police are too busy? The main thing I think that came out of the debate, or should I say shouting match, was that they think the fault is with the parents and adults they come into contact with. They say that we do not love them enough and that there is not enough time spent together as a family. I remember thinking that when Sunday trading came into affect that it would mean that less time for families to be togehter and that it would have an impact on the role of family life. Are we seing this coming into effect? It was also said that they are not born criminals it is adults that make them like it. It was aslo said that there has been a 27% increase in young people being criminlaised in the last few years. I think that a lot of teenagers get tarred witht the same brush. They are not all like this. Alot of young people are well behaved and very intelligent. I think, however that this is going to become worse before it gets better and the government may say they will tackle it but without the right resources nothing will change.

Hello everybody! this is my first attempt at blogging so wish me luck.
So, how do people feel about all the security messurs in place with banks? I thought they were a great idea until I could not get through to my bank via the phone as they thought I was not the owner of the account. The point of me calling them is because my account is not held in Bristol and the branch would not deal with me. So I thought I would call them and find out why they had returned my cheque when I had money in my account to honour it. The cheque was to pay for books from my Dad's company so you can imagine the embarrassment of having it returned, seeing that it went to my Mum in the office. So not only was I annoyed that they had not paid it as there was money in the account, I then could not talk to anyone because they assumed from the questions I answered that I was not the account holder!!! So now I am annoyed as I tried to change my bank account to another bank and they siad I did not have enough evidence to prove who I was even though I had a passport, driving licence and bank statements to prove it!! so all in all I just felt like ranting about it!!!