I talk to kids on buses, when they sit there swearing at the tops of their voices.

I talk to them again, when the content of their conversation would make an Aged Prostitute's hair stand on end.

Why???????

Because I am incensed.

Not by a bloody newspaper.

I am incensed that so many children have been raised in a society that has let all the unwritten rules of decency go. I am incensed because that bus is being shared with small children and elderly people. I am incensed because those elderly people, the very ones who went to war to give those kids their freedom, are too frightened to turn around and ask them to stop, because they know that more than likely, they'll get told to "F*ck off, Old man!" or be threatened, or worse still, find themselves being arrested because the kids have complained about them.

So I wade in there, and they can see the fire in my eyes, and hear the tone of my voice, and yes, when I get angry, all nervousness goes away from me. I don't stop if they don't stop. I ask them politely, I ask them again, then...I get narky with them, and embarrass them to hell. I am sick to death of bad manners, inconsiderate behaviour towards others, and some kids who think they are the absolute bees knees and that they have the right to behave however they want and sod everyone else.

Mostly, they stop at Stage One.

It has NOTHING to do with a bloody paper, and all to do with being raised by parents of different generations! My father's generation is the one I chose to follow. So if I sound old-fashioned, I don't apologise for it, because I happen to think that the old-fashioned ways, many of them, not all, are a terrible loss to society.

And as far as being a Reactionary now, is that the new buzz word for 'racist' 'facist' 'communist'...because I get kinda lost with which insult is supposed to incur the most wrath from other people.

Tell the Education system about Reactionaries, because they're sending in The Grannies to our schools, to teach our children how to make do and mend, talk to them about 'the old ways' and how they got through the war.

So horror of Extreme Left horrors, The Grannies are back, and maybe, just maybe, The Grannies will bring forth a whole new generation, with a whole new outlook, that will care not only about their world, their families and their money, but about each other too.

And while I'm at it, hats off to Michelle Obama for declaring herself to be a Mother first and foremost, and First Lady when she has the time left over from looking after her children.

Yup, The Mothers are back, along with The Grannies.


Heaven help us, eh? ;0)