The killing goes on. With cowardly cluster bombs. 400+ civilians is shameful. What’s the Lebanese death ratio of Hezbollah to civilians in this conflict? Israel needs to get its shit together.

What makes one person better than another? People could argue many things, but what I’d say makes it so is the content of a person’s character. Nothing else makes someone better than another… money doesn’t, power doesn’t, employment doesn’t. The sooner some people around me start realising that, the quieter my life will be.

My stepson’s got his eye on a couple of girls. They’re all his age and quite pretty – I hope he gets one for his girl.

My son has had a persistent cough for about a month now. We took him to Doctor Harland where we got some anti-biotics for him. We’re giving them to him and his cough seems to be calming down more. His breathing is still laboured a bit so every so often we’re giving him the two types of inhaler that Doctor Harland gave us.

It’s going to a great loss for this town when Doctor Harland decides to retire. He is a truly magnificent paediatrician. Aside from being British, he’s got this excellent ability to put your mind at ease.

I’ve put a list of people who have the same name as me – Ryan Paul – as one of the pages on this blog. So if you look on the menu to the right, you’ll see a link to Ryan Paul’s. Check them out – figured it’d be cool for people to see who else has this excellent name.