Packing, blue badges and a ball

21 June 2012

Well, we're nearly all packed now.  The only cloths we have left to pack are the ones we've kept back for the next few days.  We've also been thinning them out as we go along and another four large black bags of stuff is heading for the British Heart Foundation shop in Dorktown later this afternoon.  There may be more items later when we get what's left packed. 

Right now it's dry but we've had a good bit of rain today.  At 4pm we shall head down into town when the bollards are dropped out of the way and we can get into the pedestrian area of town.  We are OK with that seeing as we have a blue badge but there are far too many cars in there who officially are not allowed in there.  The problem comes when the traffic wardens do occasionally walk around a ticket all the cars without a blue badge showing.  Those drivers then get angry and pissed off and trouble brews at that point.  Sadly they never learn because it always seems to be the same drivers every time who are in there.  Not only that but they drive counter the no entry and one way street signs.  I suppose it's a case of 'why stick at one offence when I can add a few more'.  Don't know really but I do wish they would deal with it properly.

This will be s short one again today because I'm very tired.  Today's photo then is this one ... 

a Peruvian tern I'm told snapped at Bristol Zoo a few years ago.

A man enters a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks.
"I have just the thing," says the barber taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer. "Just place this between your cheek and gum." The client places the ball in his mouth and the barber proceeds with the closest shave the man has ever experienced.
After a few strokes the client asks in garbled speech.
"And what if I swallow it?"
"No problem," says the barber. "Just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does."