Kennedy's Blog

After looking through the daily newspapers, Angus Kennedy is desperately looking for reasons to be cheerful!

Reasons to be cheerful? Actually, are there any? I open my morning paper and here goes - the credit crunch is only half way there; a major US bank will fall in six months; bread prices are rising due to bad weather; the money in your bank is not worth anything now as inflation is soaring higher than the cost of saving; billions have been wiped off banking shares; and property prices may not recover until 2016. And also let us not forget the cost of those irritating little things we need from time to time like oil, gas, mortgages, insurance, water, electricity, loans and taxes. It just goes on and on and on. You name it, it's going up in price rather quickly!

Angus Kennedy, Poet Laureate of the sweetie world, scours the wastelands to find the lair of the lesser-spotted Stratford crocodile.

Please note - this poem should not be read by readers of a nervous disposition

Yippee! They've let me off the hook for my monthly editorial fix! A page that is often totally disconnected from confectionery, but there I go... I knew there was a real reason why I enjoyed it so much!

Generally, I haven't got a clue what to write about until minutes before I start hitting the keys, ideas surface from my mind and I ask myself why no-one has ever written about this before? I was talking to a good friend of Kennedy's Publications about the costs of Interpack - who isn't moaning about this two months before the show? Big deal. No, wait - he had an interesting point.

In today's blog Angus Kennedy has decided to say nothing about anything. Read on to find out why!

I have a confession to make. You see, my growing number of much loved readers, the fact is that I am finding it increasingly difficult each month to write about mundane subjects, like the chocolate eating competitions in America that I was going to cover. I just end up thinking 'Well now, what extreme ignorance'. Or how the Olympic smog will suffocate the gasping athletes in Beijing - 'they decided to hold the games there so what did they expect?