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Well to be honest, I blame the education system of the time, not sure what it is like now but then early 70s they tried to teach us to write with fountain pens and ink. I wrote with my left hand, writing with ink and being left handed dosen't really go together. Anyway the English teacher use to walk round the class and get to me, then either flick my ear with a wooden ruler or just clip my funny bone, everytime the ink went everywhere. Well eventually after around a year I'd had enough of this, felt him creeping up behind me, I got up and battered him with the chair fracturing his arm. This led to me being expelled and was basically left to my own devices, And from that point went down hill till I was 14 hot wiring cars, pinching books out of WH Smith, strangely I had a fascination with Egyptology? Don't ask! and still do. Anyway for me to join the Army I had to keep my nose clean for 2 whole years, somehow I managed it and once I was in I then received proper education lessons. Oh and I still write left handed to this day.

I think that many of today's youth are probably going through the same as I did and feel let down by our education system. We are not all and cannot all be academic, for many of us we are just practical which funny enough many who are academic are not, I know because I meet them all the time. Put me in a classroom with most teachers and I'm nodding off within 30 minutes... I'm also of the opinion that the age of criminal responsibility should be raised from 10 years, although I think most will know the difference from right and wrong at that age, I'm not entirely sure that at that age a 10 year old understands the consequences of their actions.

I guess it boils down to whether you have an emotional attachment to a piece of land, I use to live near HMS Dauntless a wren training establishment, it's been flattened the wrens have flown and there is now a new housing estate, what was once a village is now an extension of Reading town centre. Where I live now, many of the older generation are upset because the Ford motor works is gradually being replaced by new businesses and housing, even though Ford have all but gone they would much prefer to see old redundant derelict buildings than see regeneration. Housing is needed desperately in this country, the green belt should be protected at all costs, so that only leaves brownfield sites, which potential developers will be tempting land owners with top dollars as housing prices soar.

As someone who at the tender age of 12 thought it was hilarious to cut all the moorings on the river Thames in Windsor one evening. And then sit back on river bank chomping on one of me dad's players no6 watching 20 odd cruisers floating down the river. I'm all for the erasing of juvenile convictions. I still find that evening funny....

I've decided not to invest in a smart television until the current one which I purchased around 7 years ago goes bang, which may be some time off yet as the one we have is probably used for no more than 2 hours a week if that......

Read in the Daily Mail today that Aldi will be opening 50 - 60 new stores every year until 2021, not sure how many Tesco's or Sainsbury's will be opening or closing in that period

Well the only way interest rates can go is up, my mortgage tracks the base rate of the B of E plus 1/4 percent, so I've no complaints and it's a lifetime mortgage. I do think for many though that when the rates do start moving so people are going to get a shock...

I'm surprised they still print papers nowadays when so much of the press is freely available online, apart from the Sun which tries to charge a subscription fee. The only benefit of an old fashioned newspaper is to help those up north light their coal fires 

Can't see how then can fine someone £10k for speeding that's like a years salary for part time workers. Surely they will have to means test the person

The only holiday I'll be having this year is a busmans holiday, I've finally decided I need a new bathroom, I bought the new bathroom suite 8 or 10 years ago and its been sitting in my shed ever since and I look at it from time to time and say to myself 'one day I'll get round to it'...

I think all of the main supermarkets have lost a fair proportion of their trade to the likes of Aldi and Lidl and once they've lost them they've lost them for good.