http://jaggyjam.com After a misspent youth, I plan to grow old disgracefully and die laughing! Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:32:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My previous post, Sweet Charity Case, talks about the threat to the survival of charities in the UK and overseas, because of the withdrawal of corporate sponsorship and cancellation of individual donations, as a result of the economic downturn. British charities are also losing hundreds of thousands of pounds as the ... http://jaggyjam.com/volunteer-for-a-charity-fundraiser-and-enjoy-a-healthier-mind-body-and-spirit/ Charity funding in the UK and around the world is seriously threatened by the current calamitous economic forecast. Until last Spring, I worked for a London-based hospice charity and during the six years I was a member of its workforce, I witnessed the organisation blossom and flourish. But last December a ... http://jaggyjam.com/sweet-charity-case/ The post Knighthood For John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) is a fanciful notion from my imagination, a joke… at least it was at the time of writing. However, events since publishing have prompted me to speculate whether I've suddenly developed an ability to predict the future. There I was, musing about ... http://jaggyjam.com/can-i-predict-the-future/ Is the Queen to confer a knighthood on John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of the legendary 70s punk band, The Sex Pistols, in the New Year’s Honours List?  Lydon/Rotten and his Sex Pistols associates wrote punk anthem 'Anarchy in the UK'! The UK Honours System* informs us: This is the first Honours ... http://jaggyjam.com/knighthood-for-john-lydon-aka-johnny-rotten-in-new-years-honours/ OK, I admit it, I was a hippy… I guess, at heart, I still am. But I wasn’t simply a hippy, back in the early eighties I became something of a gypsy, a new age traveller, my home was a converted ambulance mini-bus — what’s known as a live-in wagon — ... http://jaggyjam.com/i-nearly-trashed-a-police-car/ If TV and shop windows accurately reflect people’s interests and desires, then the world is currently obsessed by Christmas. So, no big surprise, I’ve found myself thinking about Christmases past, and one of my favourite Christmas stories comes from my eldest niece, when she was head of a single parent family. Her ... http://jaggyjam.com/a-christmas-misconception/ In the closest fought Formula One Grand Prix I’ve ever watched, Lewis Hamilton has just finished in 5th position for McLaren in the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix in Interlagos today, and by so doing, has become Formula One World Champion, and the first British champion for 12 years! So, no ... http://jaggyjam.com/lewis-hamilton-is-formula-one-world-champion/