IN this week's column Sedgemoor FM's DJ Dave Englefield wonders if perhaps we are too easily offended these days...

I spent last week resting my voice and having a generally quiet week by my standards. That, for some reason, meant I spent most of the time feeling drained and tired.

How does that work? My normal day involves me working or dealing with work related issues for about 18 hours a day and I rarely feel tired from it. However, I take a few days off, don’t get up at stupid o’clock and just generally relax and I feel exhausted! Bizarre…

One of the things that I did catch last week was the story of a family that had complained to their county council (not ours) about a sign on the road that said 'Cats Eyes Removed' as apparently it upset them and their children. Do we really now live in a world where something like that is offensive? Percy Shaw, the inventor of them, named them as that is what the reflectors reminded him of. Surely we all know that, don’t we? Apparently not. Let’s hope that family don’t travel on the road between Yeovil and Dorchester. What will they say when they get to the village of Catsgore?, or Catholes in Cumbria? Let’s hope they never visit Brown Willy in Cornwall as well. I take it that the same family wouldn’t refer to messing things up as a dog’s dinner either. I do worry that we are becoming far too sensitive about things, let’s hope that semi-retired idea of common sense makes a comeback.

By the way, no cats were harmed during the writing of this piece, although Gizmo, my cat, did curl on the chair beside me.