23 February
2013
Social
Services are up to their old tricks again.
They went to court and got an order to remove a baby from its mum and
did so when the boy was only one hour old.
Normally I would be screaming from the roof tops against such
actions. I have little regard for social
workers of any persuasion. However,
having read the front page story in today's local Telegraph I actually agree with their actions. The mum's boyfriend has a history of violence
and other criminal offending and had threatened to raise an army of 200
skinheads if the baby was taken into care.
In reality Social Services didn't have a lot of choice here did they.
Terry was
one of my cousins. He died a few years ago
while on holiday in the States. He was a
tall man with broad shoulders and was one of those lucky beggars who would pull
on an old sack and make it look smart and fashionable. Anyway, I was reading Writing Mag in bed last night and it struck me that Terry would be
a good person to base my next novel on.
Mind you, when it's done he wouldn't be amused at how I will have
portrayed him ;-)))
We are not
going back all that long for today's bit of history. When I read it today it caused me to look at
today's telly pages and I counted the number of repeats being shown today on
the four BBC channels; there's 14 of them!
But repeats are nothing new. The
very first regular British broadcast began on this day in 1920 - and was
repeated later the same day! The BEEB
has kept up the tradition properly ;-)))
I was rather
impressed with building ...
I found in London last Sunday. Not all modern architecture is crap.
Another
shorty today ...
I went to
the local video shop and I said, 'Can I borrow Batman Forever?' He said, 'No,
you'll have to bring it back tomorrow'
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