A few facts and observations on life that you may or may not know...or couldn't really give a damn about...!! Some maybe my loves ...loathes ...likes...and facts....Or just call me a 'Grumpy old man'...!! If you feel there should be a few more to be added let me know nigeruns@tiscali.co.uk  

While everyone around me in my office is coughing, sneezing and spluttering after having their flu jabs, I seem to be quite the picture of health. Why..? I did not have the flu jab. Due to my condition, I don’t do the flu jab thing. The reason being my blood is yellow and I am half man and half chicken….And to be brutally honest I am bloody scared of long needles…!!!

Another reason for me being the picture of health, as every bug and germ know to man, and a few that are not know to man or beast whizz around my ears is that I take Echinacea on a regular basis. I also have a reassembly healthy diet, and with my running, take part in healthy exercise.  So somewhere, something is doing me good. 

I have recently change my brand of Echinacea to Activeplus which appears to have a more concentrated extract with vitamin C, and this has seemed to spurred on, and strengthened my immune system. I am not new to Activeplus products and I am a regular user of their multivitamins, of which I highly recommend. 

Like most things, some products suit some more than others, I have found one that does. It is not a miracle cure, but one to re-enforce the immune system. Available online from www.activeplus.co.uk I am also impressed at the speed of their delivery service too.

So is the 21st Century really as good as the 20th...? Are we really at home with the new age as we were with the old...? I am just curious having downloaded the photos from my digital camera to my computer. I did the adjustments to light a contrast to make them look as professional as if David Bailey had snapped them, and like its states on the box, but some how they look like works of art the Constable would of produced if he was a round today......

They lack the sharpness as a normally glossy photo from supa snaps. Ok it may take an hour but they do look like a photograph and you could pass them around to show people your holiday snaps - Now you have to take your camera with you, or strap your computer system on your back. You could maybe buy a laptop but is that a little too excess just to show your photographs of Aunt Mabel sitting on a deck chair and eatting a icecream on the beach...?

Then there are CD's - which are now out of date. It is all downloads onto your ipod. Were is the sleave..? To me buying a record was to also marvel at some of the great record sleeves produced. My record collection contained some of the best contempary art works of the last century. It said something about the record and added to the listen pleasure. You were transported away to some fantastic places, now all you do is sit on a bus starting at a little white box...Where is the inspiration in that...?

One day there will be a revolution and cameras, film and vinyl with make a come back. We will be breaking into museums to get our hands on this stuff, and we will be fulfilled....Why..? Because eventually we will be all totally board out of our brains as technology will be so advanced there will not even be a on off button to push.....and then we will realise that the old age was really better than the new age......!! 

Read an article in the local rag recently which reported on the development of inserting a MP3 player into a breast implant. It’s times when you read such things that you are glad you are a male of the species.

For a somewhat young buck such as myself my eyes lit up at the prospect of this remarkable advancement in personal entertainment. It also raised a few questions like just how would you download music into the implant..? Would it be a case of sitting at the PC with a USB lead plugged into the nipple as if it were cyber breast feeding..?

Just think of the fun element for a second guy’s. Just think what fun it would be twiddling with the volume control and adjusting the tone. But how much music could the MP3 implant store. If your name were Jordan you could possibly down load the complete back catalogue of Elvis - Cliff Richard and the Beatles combined, and as we are talking about tits here, still have enough room for Busted’s greatest hits.

So would you class this as a toys for boy gismo. Who would get more pleasure and would it give a whole new meaning to woofers and tweeters..?

How come a Norwegian Student can make a fortune from developing a extremely irritating ringtone in his bedroom and turn it into a even more irritating number 1 smash hit...Just by doing an impression of his friends moped...? Well for anyone my age any number 1 is irritating unless it has a heavy 20 minute guitar solo....!!

I can do an impression of a whistling kettle and even a 'trill' phone....and if you ask what one of those is your too young to buy a copy of the Sunday Sport...!! So why have I not amassed a fortune...? Give me a plate of beans I will give you the massed band of the Coldstream guards....You name a celeb and it'll sound as if you are in the same room as them....I am a master of a thousand voices...although everyone the same.....!!!

In a recent episode of 'Eastenders' the gangster and Mr nasty character Johnny Allen said to his longtime squeeze and bit on the side said he was no longer doing..'Dodgy'...!! Did this statement include his style of acting...??

This is a love....I love the coffee house culture and Starbucks just has that atmosphere..comfy chairs to recline and relax with a tall lart'e and croque messur peninie...There again anything that was named after a character from Battle Star Galactica is ok with me....

Starbucks you are likely to find me in are Colmore Row Birmingham - St Cathrines Dock London - Opposite the Globe Theatre Southbank London....