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3 December 2011

There are time when despair at humanity and the depths it can sink to.  Here we are with a lovely day in Dorktown; no News today so I have the local Telegraph instead.  And what do I find on the front page?  A story about breaking into a flat and stuffing a 10 week old kitten into a microwave machine and turning it on!  The pain and agony that animal had to go through beggars belief!  What on earth makes these idiots behave like that?  No matter what the cops say, burglary numbers seem to be on the increase, not dropping.  But why the wanton cruelty?  There is no excuse for it!

I have to say that I am pleased that my novel The Mission was published a couple of months ago.  The instances of concrete being thrown from bridges onto fast moving traffic in Essex can't be blamed on me.  It happens in the novel and people do die because of it. 

Another story in today's paper that seems to be a bit OTT.  How much would you pay for a pudding?  Well, a guy in Rugby has paid out £22,000 for one!  Yes, that's right, 22 grand for a pudding.  Seems a tad OTT to finish off fish n chips ;-)))  Sounds like too many scrum downs to me.

West Mids Dibble art using Twitter to raise awareness of disability hate crime.  The international Day of Person with Disabilities Day is on today.  Why can't they just call is Disability awareness Day and be done with it?  Hate crime aimed at the disabled does happen.  The attacks in Rugby where two scooters were burned out, one of which it to a couple of deaths is just one incident.  I've heard people saying how much they hate it when mobility scooter are in town.  One woman was moaning about them taking up too much room but forgetting the pushchairs she was pushing which was taking up as much room as the scooters.  Then of course there's my big one ... miss-use of the blue badge system. Whether its parking in disabled parking spaces or the actual miss-use of the badge itself.  Jan used to have some stickers that she bought from off the internet and we used to put one of those slap bang in the middle of the drivers view point.  They were a sod to get off too.        

Yesterday I mention in passing the Mayan calendar.  Well, if we were to believe what we see on telly on a regular basis we're all doomed to die nasty horrible deaths one way or another.  If it's not giant comets or meteors, its mega volcanoes, giant tsunamis, mega earth quakes, magnetic poles flips and don't forget pandemic viruses.  And if that don't get you, the sun will eventually die and as it does it will expand out to cover the earth's orbit.  But by then we would all be dead anyway.  Thing is, what are we supposed to do about any of them?  So why worry?  I don't!

And don't forget, just 22 days to the start of the big countdown to next Crimble ;-)))