Personal safety has never worried me particularly but of late I have been impressed at the range of personal alarms on the market. These range from pepper sprays, high decibel screechers and hand held sirens.

I would favour a micro Uzi for use upon any would be attacker but if I were to try to arm my girlfriend for her protection thusly I would be endangered far before any potential attacker may decide to approach her with any evil intent - hence I prefer the deterrent method.

UZI or personal alarm, the choice is yours.

I quite like the look of the unobtrusive wristwatch styles personal alarm, shown right as in a sticky situation you could be sure have access to it, like in the event of attack or even stuck in a nasty avalanche.

The range of personal alarms is impressive and I certain that one of these could help you out as a victim of crime.

Blimey and bloody nora I could do with some ear defenders today.

I get to work and the fire alarm is blaring, Martins lunchbox placed carefully over the siren takes out some of the harshness, some of the more piercing higher notes are muted slightly, but it is still killing me.

Yesterday the fire engines came and spent a few hours not putting out a fire but turning off this errant alarm.

From 8 till 9am I have sat here and tried to work throughout the vicious noise, dreaming of some of those Gwyneth Paltrow type pink ear defender headsets from Peltor, and then the drilling starts. Downstairs they are refurbishing the club - probably pole dancing, who cares, all I know is that I have surround sound now - ear splitting shrieks from the fire alarm and a dull but totally hardcore drumming from the drills downstairs which I can even feel in my feet.

It is not fair, it really is not…

Wow, armed with my new NSeries N95 I was off on a trip last week so I carefully set the mobile on the dashboard and plugged in the destination address. ( I was delivering an ebay sale for a friend- a 100 mile round trip).

What followed was the most dangerous driving of my life as I struggled to zoom and recenter the screen as I drove.
Anyway, it worked and I enjoyed the exercise but was horribly dissapointed to discover that I had spend £7 in data charges - I should read manuals.

Anyway to cut to short I have now loaded maps ( free) from all over Europe onto my phone’s 2gig memory card from smart2go. It is superb, having the maps on your mobile rather than accessing ( and paying ) for each page reload.

You have to enable your phone for disc use rather than Nokia PC Suite for the application to work and the download was nightmarishly slow. But now I can turn on my sat Nav to my hearts content.

I just better not look at it too much.

The Nokia N95 Sat Nav ( satellite Navigation software with integrated GPS) is a wonder

Riding around in my car I get to thinking about all sorts of things, I slide gears into each other as the car purrs. My vision is all focussed and peripheral at the same time, the whole panorama is a broad and slightly blurred disc which is sucked into my consciousness.

At these times I often I get to thinking back to Greece. Then I had my favourite PI Sigma ( ΠΣ ) greek shirts, I was so proud of its beautifully illustrated Frat type logo amblazoned on my chest.

At times I was asked, by the local Greeks ( as they had little understanding of Fraternity Shirts ( except those who had studied at an American University)if it stood for the Greek Fire Service, which incedentally is Pi Ypsilon ( ΠΥ )anyway,…

Now I never was a Fraternity ( nor Soriority ) boy but last week I purchase a beautiful Greek TShirt for a friend in the USA and they were completely over the moon about it.