I wonder why it is that we have such a strange way of doing things in the British legal system? Surely it is different in other countries. For example, if you get a life sentence in America, then it is ninety-nine years. In this country it seems to mean anything from 15 to 30 years, depending on the severity of the crime. When you think about it in this way it seems a little bit silly to call it a ‘life sentence’, doesn’t it? I just can’t get my head round it.

The other thing about prison sentences that I really don’t understand is how they are automatically reduced. If someone is sentenced to 10 years then they only serve 6 or 7. Where is the logic in that? Why doesn’t the judge just give them a stretch of 6 or 7 years to begin with? Where the hell does the ‘10’ come into it? It’s a wonder you don’t get a lot of very confused criminals in the dock…

And what is it with all of the silly clothes in the legal system? Is the defendant allowed to get dolled-up in a wig and flowing gown or is that only something that magistrates can do? I wonder if they always wear the same fancy dress for their hearings? Perhaps, when they feel like having a change, they all dress up as cat-suited Elvis’s or giant pilchards instead. Well! It is a tad on the silly side. After all, this is the twenty-first century that we are living in… And I wonder if they even wash those wigs; I do hope so or they’ll end up smelling very musty!

It is all a bit bizarre, isn’t it? But there are lots of things in the world that just do not make any sense…

Just before I go, I was speaking to my brother who works in investments and he thinks that there is massive money in buying stocks for kerosene oil. I think this is because of the insanely cold winter that we have been having lately….