21
December
My plug
wasn’t fully home again this morning, so I appealed on Facebook for someone to
push it in properly for me, and I’m feeling a lot better now. It’s not as if I
had a bad night either, cos I didn’t. Ah well … To add to it all, we have both
got the days muxed ip again, with us both thinking it is Tuesday, not Monday.
Jan even Skyped her sister in Bangkok today instead of tomorrow. So many senior
moments right now.
Jan has
been doing reviews for various products for a few months now. The items arrive,
she tries them and write and posts the reviews. In payment she keeps the items.
Most of what she has reviewed have been useful in one way or another and we are
still using them, but others, like the silly selfie stick really are a waste of
resources to my mind. Among the latest batch is a blood pressure metre and she
has been testing. So yesterday she did hers and it showed a high level; a wee
while later she did it again and it was still high. So I tried it and it showed
mine to be in the normal region for my levels, twice too with this morning
test. Now Jan has an appointment with the GP to have it sorted down there too.
She could well be on yet another medication if it is still so high. We wait and
see … … …
Brum has
taken in 41 refugies from Syria and questions are being raised already about the
extra cost to the city, in cash, housing, health and schools. Towns and cities
are being told by central government that they have to take a share of these
folk but they are not being given any resources to cover the added costs.
Should we take them in at all? Maybe we should, and seeing the relief on the
faces of the kids in a local school, knowing that they are safe now and not
going to be bombed or shot makes it worthwhile. But Daft Dave is right in rejecting
any ideas or pressure to take any of the thousands of those who have made their
way to Europe illegally. We have enough people in need here already, our own
people who should be helped first!
On Midlands
Today just now a 15 year old lad stabbed and killing in Brum over the weekend
has been named. So sad folks, another young life wasted for what seems no
reason at all. But I wonder – the incident happened at 2am yesterday morning;
what I am thinking is why was a 15 year old out on the streets at the time of
night in the first place? Our son Tom wasn’t allowed out at that time until he
was 16, when he could do more or less what he wanted to do with asking us about
it. I ask that same question every time I hear of such young lives being waste
in the same, or similar way. Perhaps if parents had more interest in what their
kids are up to at night, the number of such incidents might actually fall. Can’t
see it happening though, can you?
Weather
is looking pretty miserable to the week or so; but there again, it all depends
on what you would like it to be on Friday I suppose. A white Christmas? Not my
idea of fun at all. I’m 67 now and I don’t actually remember one. The nearest I
can remember was when it started snowing on Boxing day afternoon and continued
on for days on end. That was when the snow and ice hung around until nearly
April, 1963/4 I think. Anyway, now I like the snow for as long as I can get a
few nice shots of it and then it can just go away as far as I am concerned.
We don’t
usually get very severe weather hear abouts anyway and the last serious snow we
had here in Dorktown was in Febuary 2012, so for
today’s photo …
Shot through the front bedroom window in Bracebridge Street.
Today’s
funny …
There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he
couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help,
sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little
later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need
help?" The preacher replied again, "No God will save me."
Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven. The preacher asked God,
"Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "Fool, I sent you two
boats!"
No comments:
Post a Comment