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For July, 2010

Jul 27

John James ‘leaves’ Big Brother House.

By KerryNo Comments

As my husband rolls his eyes and settles himself in front of his computer to escape my nightly viewing of Big Brother 11 I eagerly await the latest news on the Josie/John James saga.

It’s been a dramatic few days in the Josie – John James saga, so we thought we’d do you a favour and give you the low down on the recent events of the past 2 days.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…

Yesterday afternoon, John James and Josie took their microphones off and began whispering under a duvet in the Bedroom (again). At one point our Aussie boy could be heard telling Josie that he wouldn’t hurt her, but later he said their relationship was becoming like Shabby and Caoimhe.

Josie took offence to this comment replying that she was not the Shabby in the relationship.  As she stormed out of the Bedroom, John James begged her to talk to him. He followed her to the Bathroom and said he never meant to hurt her, and Josie said he hadn’t hurt her, so why is he carrying on? He slammed his fist on the sink and walked out.

John James went to the Bedroom and explained the situation to his new best friend JJ.  The boxer said that John James just wanted to find out how Josie feels and that he was there if he wanted to talk about the situation.  JJ said he would try to talk to Josie later in the afternoon.

John James then walked into the Garden and straight through to the camera runs through a fire escape telling housemates that he was sorry. He spent a few minutes in the camera runs speaking to the BB producers, never properly leaving the house, before returning and going to speak to Big Brother in the Diary Room.

Following this chat, John James had a heart to heart with Josie saying that he didn’t want her to resent him for not liking her as much as she likes him. He continued by saying that his reasons for leaving were not because of her feelings for him but because he couldn’t handle not speaking to her, saying ‘In the outside world I could talk to you properly’.

He apologised to Josie for everything when she said she felt stupid and looks like an idiot. John James said he has been selfish.  Josie says she knows what he’s going to say next, so there’s no need to say it.  Once again, our Aussie softy began to cry under the covers.

But the plot thickens! At 16.35 yesterday afternoon, they kissed!!
The canoodling continued during the night. What will become of these two? Will they ever become the romance of BB11?

How do you think this will pan out? Are you fed up and wish they’d just get it on? Do you even care?

Source of information: Channel4.com/BigBrother

Jul 02

Healthier, Wealthier, But Living Alone!

By KerryNo Comments

Apart from shining a spotlight on the way we live now, the latest ONS Social Trends survey provides a fascinating glimpse of Britain 40 years ago.

It was a place where coal was the biggest single source of domestic energy, where nearly half of all households did not have regular use of a car, where a quarter of men were classified as heavy smokers and where nearly 24 million working days a year were lost to strike action.

Fast forward to the present and it’s the central role played in our lives by new technology that stands out as the most obvious change.

Two thirds of households now have an internet connection, something undreamt of in the 1970s, while 89% have digital TV.

Choices for women

And the energy bill to power all this domestic technology is vast. It’s the equivalent of 6.8 million tonnes of oil every year for lighting and electrical appliances, compared with 2.7 million tonnes in 1970.

But perhaps the most significant changes in our lifestyles over the past generation have been shaped by the greater opportunities and choices available to women.

They’re getting married later – the average age of a first marriage for women is now just two months before her 30th birthday.

The proportion of babies born to women under the age of 25 has halved since 1971. Women now outnumber men in further and higher education.

Those trends are reflected in the rising number of one-person households – from 18% of all households in 1971 to 29% now.

Intriguingly, this survey also found that more than two thirds of people aged 18 or over in Britain believe that they do not need a partner to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

Life expectancy

This question wasn’t asked by the ONS in its first survey in 1970 so, annoyingly, we don’t know how attitudes to the desirability of partners have changed since then – though we can make an educated guess.

In general we’re more likely to live alone than we were 40 years ago, in a house stuffed full of new technology, and we’re living longer. Life expectancy has risen sharply, especially for men, from 68.7 years in 1970 to 77.8 years now.

And deaths from circulatory diseases – strokes and heart attacks – have fallen dramatically with the decline in smoking. In fact, cancer has replaced circulatory disease as the main cause of death in women.

But other risks have increased. Alcohol-related deaths have nearly doubled since the mid-90s. And there’s another even more sobering statistic – 77% of adults aged 65 to 74 in England are now classified as obese or overweight.

It seems that our new lifestyles have brought with them new health dangers.

Source: Greg Wood – BBC News

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