Kids! Who'd have 'em?

31 December 2011

There's no News today so we have to make do with the Telegraph.  The front page story is about a lady from Coventry who over the last 35 years has fostered over 150 kids.  That is a remarkable record and well worth being on the front page.  Well done to Janet Finch, who gets an MBE in the New Years Honours List.  As for kids in general ... I love 'em, especially when they are tucked up in bed fast asleep or between 1 and 2 am playing on the fast lane of the M6 with lanes 1 and 2 closed!

Tesco is the news again, and for the wrong reasons yet again.  This time it was because a 10 year old boy was in Tesco Arena in Coventry looking at some iPhones and testing them.  He tried one and got a message, "Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***".  Not at all nice!  It seems that someone nutter had managed to hack into it and leave the message.  The lads parents are rightly very angry over it.  Tesco says, "We have arranged for the handset to be sent for diagnostic testing and we will investigate this issue as a matter of priority with Apple."  The mum is still unhappy seeing that 24 hours after the incident had been reported to the store management the same handset was still on display and still showing the same message.  Not good Tesco, not good at all!

I don't need to tell you that it's New Years Eve do I?  Well, I have done so anyway ;-)))  Are you making any New Year's Resolutions?  I'm not - for two reasons; a, I never keep them anyway; and b, I'm going to be original and break with the tradition ;-)))  You do realize don't you that if you do anything the same way twice it is a tradition?  Honestly, it's true that.  Talking of which ...

While we were out the other day we called in to a pub called the Tudor Arms, about half a mile from Slimbridge and in there was a young lass who actually worked at the Centre.  We sat talking to her and I asked her why she didn't break that tradition and start a new fashion by letter her hair grow in its natural colour - it was the most strikingly vivid green I think I have seen at the time.  She took it in good humour and laughed' not I'd have worried if she hadn't.

So that's it for today then.  Happy New Year to you all.