22 August 2013
Jan has gone off to Brum with Sam - again. That means I can get up to all sorts of
mischief. Thing is - I don't
particularly like it; I can get up to whatever I want to while she's away and
there so much I could get up to I can never decided what to do ;-)))
A few miles outside Dorktown is what is known as Ridding for
the Disabled. It's a much used and loved
facility giving disabled kids a chance to develop their strength and to bring
out the best from them. All the kids who
use it love it there and look forward to their next visit. What sort of miserable person, or group of
people would take it away from them? Try
Dorktown council! They claim there is a legal
technical issue concerning the lease of the land where the school is
situated. The result is that the council
didn't offer to renew the lease. Of
course we don't know what this 'technical issue' is cos the council is hiding
behind the 'ongoing legal action' excuse.
That's just typical of them really.
But when we say 'The Council' we don't actually mean the elected members;
oh no; it's the jobs-worths who are employed to run the council services that
is the problem. It has always been the
same.
I remember one occasion when one person working in the housing
department was being challenged by a tenant over something, the conversation
had begun when we arrived at the office so we really know what it was about. The tenant wasn't getting any sense out of
the woman behind the counter. She just
seemed to be jumping all over the place in an attempt not to answer the
questions being asked. Eventually the
tenant had had enough and said she would take it up with her councillor. The employee laughed out loud and said, "If
you wish go on and do so. We will laugh
at him too!" See? It's the council employees who are the main
cause of all the problems with the council.
I would guess that is the same all over the country too.
Years ago my brother had a group of mates who would go to
Highfield Road to watch Coventry City play footie (or at least try to play that
is). One of the group was named Ian. Ian was found lying in the street in the
early hours of one morning about 12 months ago.
He later died in hospital. He was
a really nice guy and fitted in with the group of friends, he also turned up at
Dave's funeral nearly five years ago.
What I didn't know was that Ian got a taxi home, paid his fare, got out
of the taxi and fell over backwards into the road as he walked towards his
home. The taxi driver drove over him causing
internal juries. When paramedics arrived
the driver failed to mention that he had run over Ian and claimed that he had
just fallen over after he left taxi.
Unfortunately
the driver's actions were caught on a CCTV camera on a nearby house. He has been jailed for 21 weeks suspended for
12 months, has to do 210 hours community service and he was banned from driving
for two years.
What seems to have swayed the court in sentencing is that
Ian was drunk at the time of the incident; indeed, he had a history of being drunk. However, that doesn't give the driver an excuse
to run over him or to claim he hadn't done so.
In my eyes the driver was guilty of driving without due care and
attention and therefore should have got a much stiffer sentence that he has.
Over the weekend I got around 120 photos. I went through them yesterday afternoon and
out of that lot I got just 12 worthwhile shots, and some of those are
marginal! Anyway, here's one from
Tuesday while Jan was driving home ...
The vertical line of cloud is a vapour
trail from an airplane but as it was at that point it looked just like a
vertical cloud.
The Sage has been in touch again ...
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A young
man married a beautiful woman who had previously divorced 10
husbands.
On their wedding night, she told her new husband to "Please be
gentle;
I'm still a Virgin.
"What?"
said the puzzled groom. "How can that be if you've been married ten
times?"
"Well,
husband #1 was a Sales Representative; he kept telling me how
great it
was going to be.
"Husband
# 2 was in Software Services; he was never really sure how it
was
supposed to function; but he said he'd look into it and get back with
me.
"Husband
# 3 was from Field Services; he said that everything checked
out
diagnostically but he just couldn't get the system up.
"Husband
# 4 was in Telemarketing; even though he
knew he had
the order,
he didn't know when he would be able to deliver.
"Husband
# 5 was an Engineer, he understood the basic process but he
wanted
three years to research, implement, and design a new state of
the-art
method.
"Husband
#6 was from Administration; he thought he knew how but he
wasn't
sure whether it was his job or not.
"Husband
# 7 was in Marketing; although he had a Product, he was never sure how to
position it...
"Husband
# 8 was a Psychiatrist; all he did was talk about it.
"Husband
# 9 was a Gynaecologist; all he did was look at it.
"Husband
# 10 was a Stamp Collector; all he ever did was lick it..... God I miss him.
"
But now that I've married you, I'm so excited".
"Wonderful",
said the husband, "but why?
"You're
with the GOVERNMENT.
This time
I KNOW I'M gonna get screwed."
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