9 July 2012
According to today's
News a new online petition has been
started to try to save one the battalions of the Royal Regiment of
Fusiliers. There's only two battalions
as it is yet they are going to be reduce even further. In 1967 when I joined the Army there were a
lot of infantry battalions, all of them individual and county based. There were five battalions of fusiliers,
light infantry and so many more. The
five regiments foot guards each had two battalions. In 1969 all these county based regiments were
renamed and the five were reduced to three.
Not so long ago they were further reduced to just two battalions. Now they want to reduce them even further. Then you can add in the reductions for both
the Royal Navy and the RAF.
Then they wonder why
Argentina is making a fuss about the Falklands yet again. Silly excuses like poor government, bad
economy and so on in Argentina and claim that the current fuss is to take the Argentine
peoples mind of the country's problems by making the fuss they are now making. What they are willing to admit is that the
real reason why the fuss is staring up again is that the Argentine government
has seen the reduction of Britain's armed forces and they have worked out that
we couldn't mount another Task Force as we did in 1982. Therefore they feel that another invasion
would work very well in their favour.
How daft do the Muppet Persons think we electorate are?
Saturday we were
over at the house while the one of Jan's friends removed to desks. After that we headed over to Walsgrave to
Asda and did some shopping. We both fancied
a drink after that so we headed off to the Greyhound for a pint. It's the first time we have been in there
first time we have been in there for some months now. We both had our normal drinks and made friends
with a couple of huge great dogs. As we
sat listening to the conversation going on around us my ears picked a woman
asking a guy if had every been married.
"No," he said.
"We've together for just over 20 years now and the only time she
mentioned getting married I replied that the only reason he could see for
getting married was that they could then get a divorce. She hasn't mentioned it since" This was greeted by laughter from his group
of friends. I thought it rather sad
really.
Today's photo is ...
the clock tower of St Pancras Station in London. That is a very blue sky but I took this shoot
just a few seconds after a very heavy rain shower.
An old man has been
feeling under the weather and decides to visit his local GP along with his
wife. After some basic tests the doctor sits the couple down and explains;
"I will need to do some more tests, to do so I'll need a urine sample, a
faeces sample and a sperm sample" Being slightly deaf the old man shouts
"WHAT!" Obligingly, the doctor repeats himself in a slightly louder
voice; "I'll need a urine, faeces and sperm sample" "WHAT"
shouts the old man To this the old mans wife leans over to him and shouts in
his ear; "He says he wants to borrow your pyjama bottoms"!!!
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