29 December
2012
Jan in making
slow progress at the moment. The
antibiotics are working now she has a decent amount running through her system. Hopefully she will be well enough to go to
Lynda in two weeks time. She is really
looking forward to it now, especially after having had to put it off a week.
At last the
BEEB has got the weather right! Rain and
gusting high winds here in Dorktown.
Good job I have no plans for going out for a few days eh ;-)))
Last night I
finished Michael Creighton's book Airframe. I'm rather surprised with it really. I've read a number of his books in the past
and enjoyed them - until the end that is!
I've always found the endings of his books to be weak and insipid. The story lines all the way through them have
been good and strong and moved along well.
The endings however seemed to be rushed and not very satisfying. But Airframe
was good all the way through with a clear cut ending wrapping it all up nicely.
I shall now start on The Hobbit I bought
yesterday.
It's that
time of year again when so called ordinary people get rewarded for doing what
they do. Major awards have been given to
the two Olympics teams that did so well in London. OK, they have done well and deserve to be recognised
in some way; but Cherie Blair? Come on
... ... ...
And good
news about the 6 year old girl who has arrived back in the UK after spending three
years in Pakistan when her father had abducted her and took her there. This sort of thing happens fairly regularly
you know but not so much is made of it.
Perhaps people are afraid of being called racist anti-Islamic. And I have to be honest here and say,
"Me too." Why? Well there's a practice within the Muslim
community which is causing havoc throughout the NHS. There are a lot of marriages between cousins within
Muslim families. That's fine and acceptable. But when their kids go on to marry cousins
too, then we begin to see the problems come about. The family who lived next door to us in our
old place had a granddaughter who is severely mentally disabled. There is at least one more child in the family
who is as badly affected as the girl. How
many more are there throughout the UK with the same issue?
Am I
racist? No. Am I anti-Islamic? No. I
am however concerned about just how much is this costing the NHS and local
Social Services? And all because of an
issue that can be rectified for the future but the people concerned is will not
accept there is a problem. Acceptance of
a problem is the first step to sorting it all out.
Do you
remember Bernard Cribbins? I do and I
liked his work on telly and in films.
Anyway, he's 84 today - so happy birthday Bernard. Also on this day, in 1170 one of our historic
expressions was brought to light.
"Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest," (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/becket.htm accessed 1030hrs, 29/12/2012) muttered Henry
II. The result was four night set out
and murdered Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
I have no
photos of Canterbury I'm afraid but I do have this ...
the entrance to York
Minster.
And a funny
for today ...
So there
they all where all the kids of year 6 having their first sex education lesson, the
teacher puts up a diagram of the male human body up and starts to ask
questions. "And can anybody tell me what this is called " asked the
teacher pointing to the graphic picture.
"Its a
penis miss" shouts little arthur at the front.
Next thing a
hand goes up at the back of the class, "Yes Johnny can I help you?"
asks the teacher.
"Err ...
yea miss my dad's got two of them." says Johnny with a smirk on his face.
"How do
you know that?" asked the teacher.
Coz I've
seen 'em little Johnny then opens up his finger and thumb to measure out and
says, "yea he's got one about this big which he uses for weeing." Then opening up his finger and thumb he says, "And
he's got one even bigger what my mum uses to clean her teeth!"
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