tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12582553093655181872024-02-20T18:06:45.106-08:00Bitzer's Daily musingsBirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.comBlogger1521125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-1279727428310196562017-01-30T12:16:00.003-08:002017-01-30T12:16:50.723-08:00The time has come ...
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m finding it difficult to write this blog today. The reason is that it
will be my last one. You see, even though I have enjoyed writing over the years
but it’s taking up far too much time, time I could better use in my actual
novel writing. On top of that I shall reduce how much time I spend on social
media, again, lots of fun but so much time flies by with it. </span></span></h3>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-20570676168970862652017-01-28T05:05:00.001-08:002017-01-28T05:06:56.510-08:00SIMs, rain and woofers ...<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">28 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jan has just spent around 15 minutes on the phone to Virgin. We are
expecting a new SIM card to arrive and this morning there was a package from
them in the post, and open package! It seems that the SIM was in there at time
of postage, now it’s lost. Jan phoned to let them know. If someone finds it or
has pinched it, they won’t get anywhere with it cos they’ve blocked it. We have
been promised a new one on Monday. That’s fine, but she really could have done
without that crap today. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m sitting here looking out the window at wall to wall sunshine. I won’t
be going anywhere though. The ground out back and the roads out front are well
wet. The forecast last night were for a short of period of sun before the
clouds of rain are back. It looks quite cold out there too – weather forecasters
eh! Well, they’re at it again; according to an item on MSN the ‘big freeze’ is changing
to a month of storms and rain from next week. Oh dear, should we be concerned,
and if so, what are we going to do about it. I wonder if the Red Indian rain
dance performed in reverse would help? At least this is a relatively short-term
forecast I suppose, but do you remember the long-term forecast of the barbeque summer
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We both love dogs and we both would love to have one. So why don’t we get
one? Two reasons really; 1, cats and dogs are not allowed in our ground floor
flat. 2, and even more important, we both know that we are no longer able to
look after one properly. It’s sad really, there are so many dogs held in
re-homing centres all over the place. Dog’s Trust in Kenilworth, RSPCA in
Coventry and one Leicester. We used to go and visit them often at one time. We
visited Battersea Dog’s Home in London one time, and that was the last one we
went too. The dogs there looked so miserable and dejected, that I left with
tears in eyes and it took us some time tp get back on the road after it. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometime after that we did get another dog from the local Dog’s Trust, a
little Pomeranian bitch, one of pair found as strays in Eire. The male was
adopted fairly quickly but the bitch remained there at the Trust – until we saw
her. We passed all the challenges they demanded we meet, paid our £100 and
after three weeks we took Amber (her new name), home. We had been told that
they had no history for her, but we took the chance. At the time we were
assured that Poms don’t shed their hairs – wrong! They do and we knew I had an allergy
to such dogs. I could increase my use of medication to counter that though, so
not really a problem. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What was a problem was that she did not like kids at all and even went
for Kile when he visited once. He refused to come again while she was there. We
walked her along the canal to our favourite pub, The Greyhound (yeah, I know),
and sat outside with our drinks because it was such a nice day. There were a
number of kids running around and Amber stood there watching them and growling
every time one of them got too close. That was it; we phoned the Trust and they
agreed to take her back. Is was a sad time for all concerned but as the Trust
staff said, they could now make sure she went to home with only adults. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I took my dog to the vet today
because it bit my mother-in-law.<br />
Did you have it put down?<br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-33477664331427832952017-01-27T03:30:00.003-08:002017-01-27T03:32:02.450-08:00NO! It needs to be heard a lot more<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">27 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kids; I have a love/hate feeling about them. Even as a teenager I had no
time for them at all. Even now my fear is being stuck in a small contained are with
screaming little monster. And yet, it’s not really the kids fault, is it? In
most cases the parents allow them to get away with pretty much what they want
while at home, so when it comes to being told off or made to do something they
don’t want, they kick up a fuss. It’s the adults who look silly to me, not the
kids. At least our son knew what the word ‘no’ meant. When he heard it he knew
that it did mean no, not in a short while. Tom still knows it too; that’s why
he need something he asks for Jan, well, he used to now he lives in Ulster he
can’t shout for help any more.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We know of one couple who would never correct their daughter and never
refused her anything. They are paying the price now though. None of her
brothers and sisters will have her anywhere near them, and certainly not near
their own kids. She creates chaos in and around her where ever she goes, happily
married couples have almost come to separate because of her. Not so long ago
she caused a lot of hassle in and around Jan. At Jan had the support of her
friends from church to turn to when they were around, and of course, I stood by
her when she told me what was going on. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am sure that she is just one of many people who are like that. I’m beginning
to wonder if old Farter Trump is one you know. On face the face if it, US
politics changes from president to president. However, the US civil service and
the clinging lobbyists, never changes, just as happens here. At some time he
will upset them enough for them to say, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ That is when
the world will be most in danger. And that is when we will all need to fear
what the man does next. Hopefully, there will be enough strong men around to
keep him calm and under control. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The current situation reminds me somewhat of a Stephen King story, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Dead Zone</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, where a man comes out of
a coma and has the power to see the future when he has physical contact with
someone. Wrapped up in it is a charismatic politian running for the White House,
and gets it. He then starts throwing nukes about. Coma-man sees this before he
shakes the Politian’s hand. He works to stops him from getting the job, but
dies in the attempt. WWIII averted. Let’s hope there’s someone around to stop
Farter at some point. Today Tottering Terry May will meet him. Not much
salvation there folks, talk about the blind leading the blind … By heck, how
did we end up in such a state as this. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a brighter note, I shall be going off into town in wee while for ride
around. It’s cold out there and rain is forecast for later, but I’m looking
forward to getting out and about for a few hours. A call into Smudges will be
useful, and of course there’s the works to visit too. And I’m sure I can find a
pub for nice sit and read while slurping a diet coke. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo is another from QE hospital … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do you use when a tree gets
a puncture?<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday afternoon turned into a bit of a nightmare. Jan had an
appointment for a bone density scan and she thought it was at the Royal
Orthopaedic in Selly Oak. We arrived, parked, paid £3 for 5ive hours parking
only to find out we were at the wrong hospital. We should have been at Queen
Liz, Brum’s huge new hospital. As we were only ten minutes away we raced off to
get there on time. Again we parked up and Jan set off straight away while I
sorted out the car; she was five minutes late but they still did the scan, for
which we were very happy about. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The plan then was for me to meet her at the main entrance. What I did see
when I got there? A WH Smiths and a Costa; Smudges first and I bought </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl on the Train</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> plus another one. Off
to Costa and my normal plain black coffee, it was awful! I said I was drinking
it outside and they put it in one of those cardboard cup-things they use. Never
again! Jan joined me and we set off back to the car and made our way back to
the car and off we went. By that time it was just after 4pm and the traffic on
the A38 out of town was building up. The M6 wasn’t much different with the
variable speed limit signs set of 40mph. We eventually arrived home at just
after 6 o’clock.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That new hospital really is huge; I thought the new Walsgrave in Coventry
was large, the QE is a lot larger. The reception area is a massive empty space,
at least 50 feet high, perhaps more. Jan said she had to walk around a mile to
where she needed to get to for the scan. The only down side to place, for me at
least, was the silly revolving doors that so many places have these days. I’m
always thing that I’ll get stuck in them one day. That’s not happened of
course, and it’s the only thing of that nature that has me in it’s grip.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have you heard of the Black Dog Tribe? It’s one of a number of
organisations (this is run by SANE), that supports folk who suffer mental
illness and the stigma that comes with it. One of their posts on Facebook
yesterday showed pills being stung together. It stuck me that at the time I saw
it that I was still on Amitriptyline, and anti-depressant medication that is an
effective pain killer at lower doses. I’ve been on them for longer that I care
to think about now. I hated taking them in from of other people, OU students at
the time and I would them out and take them, hoping that no-one noticed. Why? Anti-ds=mental
illness=stigma; go it? At that time, I wasn’t suffering depression, but I still
felt some of the stigma that such pills carry, that came several years later. I’ll
see about coming off them later when I get chance to make a telephone
appointment. One more pill less has got to be worthwhile. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is it with creative minds and depression I wonder? Robin Williams
last year, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Vincent and oh so many more brilliant artists
suffered with depression so badly that they killed themselves. I didn’t rate
Hancock or Sellers all that much but they are regarded as brilliant comics
generally. It does make me wonder just how many more creative minds are
troubled with mental illness of some sort. And not just in the Arts either;
what about mathematician John Nash, who suffered severe </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">schizophrenia for most of his adult life? How many more are there that we
don’t know about?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let’s go back to yesterday to finish off with. When we arrived back home
we had to empty the car ready for its collection this morning to go in for a
service. We took it easy getting it done, the car was actually in a bit of mess
really. Jan’s scooter was first out; our walkers were next load down with six
different coats, mainly mine. Jan brought in one bag that had the two new books
in it. Imagine my surprise when I looked at them to find that I had bought two
copies of the same book! I couldn’t believe I had done that, even the cashier
didn’t say anything when I paid. They are listed on the till receipt as the
same book too. I hope Smudges in town are in a helpful frame of mind tomorrow
when I go there to change on of them.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And lastly – all this weight I’ve lost has had an unexpected benefit. My
waist size is well down, no wonder my trousers keep falling down, so we’ve
ordered me some new ones. Some years ago we bought me three pairs of shoes, all
size 8; I tried them on they filled me well, but I was wearing mainly trainers
then, so when I came to wear new shoes one time, I couldn’t get them on. So
then, last night I went through to bed I decided to try on the shoes, and blow
me, they actually fit again now. I never thought that fat could build up in my
feet. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do you call a ghost who only
haunts the Town Hall?<br />
The nightmayor.</span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">25 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The P word cropped up again last night, and it wasn’t directed at me
directly either. It’s a longish tale, so if you are sitting comfortably, I’ll
begin … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple of days ago, I mention that I have a tendency to procrastinate over
my writing. In the past, I’ve also mentioned that my reading speed is quite
slow, although that depends on what I am reading to some extent. Anyway, I
began reading </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game of Thrones 6</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> last
week, and yet again I’m finding it rather hard going. This time I’ve only got
to around page 140 and I just couldn’t face it last night. So instead I started
reading more of the current edition of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writing
Magazine</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and is the where the P word comes in. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lynne Hackles is a regular writer in WM and was saying that she was
living a very busy life but still managed to write 3,000 words a week. It came
to a stop when she had an accident which meant she had to give up her day job
along with having all her other activities cut short. She hasn’t taken up
another day job since then, and guess what, she still only writing around 3,000
words a week. That is where the P word comes in. The whole point of the article
is a reply to the question. ‘What should my word count be daily?’ The answer
really is, ‘Write as much as you are comfortable and are happy with.’ After
all, writing is supposed to be fun and if the writer isn’t enjoying it, how can
the reader enjoy it? Fair dos there folks. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, what of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GOT6</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">? I’m not sure
really, same with #7 in the TBR pile. Reading fiction should surely be fun too,
and right now I’m struggling with 6. Not only that, there’s rumours going around
that #8 is on the way. Thing is, I don’t like waste and the two paperbacks I
have cost £16, not a lot really, but still wasted if I don’t read them, and
that is without #8 too. There are a lot of books in my TBR pile, I’ve added a
couple since I took that photo last week. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of them will get read at some point, and I’ve been here before with
piles of books to read and I keep on buying. At some point, I decided, ‘NO
MORE!’ So I stopped buying any books. I paid a sad price for that one too. We
were visiting Trish, Jan’s sister at a camp site just off the A12 in Suffolk.
We went off for a walk around Aldeburgh where we found a local charity shop, so
we popped in to have a look. I always look at the books when I go in a charity shops
and there I found a really tatty paper back that I was pulled to buy. It was
hard for me to but it back on the shelf my friends, really hard. Now I wish
hadn’t. The books was </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Letters From
America</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, a Charles Dickens book I had never seen before, and never seen
since. A miserly price of 50p too, but my TBR pile was still large at that
point, and I’d said, ‘No more’. Oh heck … … …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a fancy for a trip to Hay-on-Wye, the UK capital of used books. I’ve
been there a few times before and it’s always been a good day out. Normally I
got there and come back with a lot of books, it’s a book-buyers wet dream is
Hay. Both of the town’s cinemas have been converted to books shops, as has the
castle. The choice is bewildering, and I love the place. There’s a one bookshop
that has separate section in a large upstairs room, which is full of piles of
old magazines. I’ve also had a good look at that lot too, and left there with a
number of old mags that interested me. See, recycling old mags can be
profitable. Hmmm … maybe it’s time for another run out to Astley Book Farm … ……</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oxfam bookshop, Cambridge.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you hear about the couple who
met in a revolving door?<br />
They're still going round together.</span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-20725017526289647062017-01-24T05:26:00.000-08:002017-01-24T05:27:57.495-08:00A quickie today ...<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">24 January</span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By heck, what a time to get up; 7 bloody 30 is far from being a civilised
time in the morning. I’ve got up with Kile this morning to give Jan a lie-in
for a change. Anyway …</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I was due to stay in today because of my new mobile arriving at
some time. It arrived around 10 o’clock. It looks pretty good too, I’m sure it
work as well as it looks once I’ve worked out how to get it working properly.
What doesn’t help is not having a printed manual; I’ve now found one on-line,
only 330 pages, no wonder they don’t provide one. Another issue I’ve found is
that there seems only one port for both the SIM and the micro-SD card. My old
phone is on charge right now so as I’m going to use the SIM from that for the
new one, I’m sort of in a bit of a limbo for now. I’ve finally managed to get
the older phone charged and stripped down, well, all but the SIM card that is. It
will get sorted though, honestly, it will, Jan will get it sorted for me.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the government lost an appeal case on the BREXT issue. What that means
is that because of some person not willing to accept democracy unless it works
how they want it, then they can the courts to fix it for them. What a tragedy
for us all! At some time, this decision will back fire on the UK in bigger
issue that might cause us to be in real danger in some way. It is this sort of
decision made by the European court that was one of the many reasons why I
became disillusions with the EU. Now we have our own judges doing the self-same
things. What chance do we have as a nation when things like happen, even today?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">London fire service had a busy few
hours after an explosion occurred in a ground floor flat. Two men have been
arrested over it. With ten tenders and 60 firefighters attended the incident,
so it was certainly a serious event. Police are not saying much about it other
than the two men have been arrested on suspicion of arson. At times like this
we can only wait for the event to be investigated before we can know what has
happened, however. We do have our imaginations though, and they won’t sit quietly
will they. My first thought when I saw it was a bomb maker had made an error.
Just lately there have been a number of cases of arson attacks on peoples homes
because of some sort of falling out. I shall be watching this one to see what
comes out of the investigation.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good grief, I’m shattered right now. I’ll post this one now before I lose
it.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Penguin. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If the new president came under assassins fire would his bodyguards
shout. Donald Duck?</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-75496337182640116682017-01-23T05:06:00.005-08:002017-01-23T05:08:20.094-08:00Type 2s and comms ...<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">23 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a lot of miss-information about diabetes doing the rounds these
days. The two main types are T1, who use insulin, and T2, who don’t. To begin
with, T2 is not a death sentence. When first diagnosed, it might seem that way
but we quickly learn that it really isn’t. The next item is life style choices;
being overweight and unfit is what causes it, not in everyone folks. Tom Hanks
isn’t overweight, and nor in my mate who does the proof reading for me, and yet
both have T2 diabetes, my mate is also a vegetarian too and is very careful in
what he eats. I have another friend living in Devon who has always been careful
with his eating and I was shocked to learn he too has been diagnosed as well.
And don’t forget my friends, some pregnant ladies also become T2 during their
term of carrying.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Diet is another issue when comes to lack of understanding of the
condition. A T2 diabetic can eat pretty much what they like. However, most of
us do take great care with what we do eat, although there are the odd few who
won’t do so. Sugar we can have if want, but at limited amounts. We know well enough
that if we over do the sugar, we are likely to have an adverse reaction in some
way. For me it’s a raging thirst and extreme tiredness, other react
differently. We are regularly being informed about healthy food choices and how
they help us to control our diabetes. Common sense about food and eating is all
that is needed. What we need a balanced diet, nothing is out of bounds as long
as it’s taken as part of the balanced diet. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We T2s do not use insulin injections. Some of us are able to control
their condition by diet alone, where as some of us, me included take tablets
and their control is excellent. So if you see someone injecting in public, they
are T1 diabetics, not junkies. T1 usually develops in children and they have a
major fight on their hands for the rest of their lives. What they need is understanding,
not ridicule and anger. A lot of the fuss n bovver is down to the media hype,
not real knowledge of the condition so it’s not really a surprise that there
are so many people who don’t understand it. Sad to say, that they take everything
they read in media/on-line as truth. Ah well … … …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my mobile phone contract was coming
to an end. It didn’t take long before I had a phone call from India trying to
sell me a new one. She got very short answers and I eventually hung up on her. I
just don’t have the patience to sit and listen to tell-sales wafflers, no matter
where the call from. Anyway, last night I had a look on line to try to see if
there was any handset I fancied. There was a nice Sony but at £27pm it’s twice
what I’m paying now, same with a Samsung I liked (not the Note 7 BYW).
Eventually I decided on a cheaper Samsung with a monthly cost of £13, just £1
more than I’m now paying, it will be here tomorrow. You see, all I want, all I
need actually, is a phone that I can make calls and texts from, I don’t need
all the other stuff that get added or I can add. Life’s far too short to spend
on looking at a little screen and typing while I’m walking, let alone driving! </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The account is in Jan’s name so she made the call to order it and by the
time she was finished she had been on the phone for over 30 minutes, that’s why
I’d sooner got to the Virgin shop in Coventry. Those type of calls I have no
time for. So now I’m set for the next 24 months. And speaking of phones …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We keep getting calls from a company who is asking for a Mr Paul Sockett
and it’s really beginning to bug us now. We don’t know anyone of that name,
no-one has ever lived at this address using that name, and our landline number
is now nine years old and was given to us when we had Virgin installed at our
Bracebridge Street home. So where this company manages to link our nine year
old number with someone else, I don’t know. Later I shall get on social media
and try to find him and, and, and … I don’t yet but at least if do find him I
can let the company know where to find him.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A moody sky from last year.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Car Driver (telephoning after he has had an accident) - Send help at
once, I've turned turtle. <br />
Mechanic: This is a garage not a pet shop. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-76107699487073644762017-01-22T03:34:00.001-08:002017-01-22T03:36:01.762-08:00PROCASTINATION!!!<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another bad day yesterday, hence no blog. Not much different this morning
either but I have things to do today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wonder what has been happening over the last couple of days? I got fed
up with wall to wall coverage of Farter. If nothing else, he knows how to
create a fuss. Just a pity that his new job is a lot more than making a fuss. Apparently,
there are islands that are ruled by animals. I knew about one off the coast of
Brazil where humans are not allowed because of the number of snakes creeping
around. Well, now the US is being run by the sleaziest snake of all time. As
much as I would love to visit the place for a look around, I won’t be going
while he’s in charge!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have Kile with us again. After Thursday evening, he hasn’t been home
since. It is his normal weekend to be with us anyway, but it’s a long way from
home to school and making the trip twice in 12 hours was not really much fun at
all. Tomorrow evening he has his young carers club in town; so, from school he
walks back here, about a mile, Jan takes him carers and collects him. He will
stay for Monday night, get up for school as normal and then head off back home
as normal. Once he does get a place at Hartshill School, I wonder if he will
miss coming here? It will happen at some time, sitting around with a pair of
old codgers won’t compare with running around Hartshill Hayes country park
chasing the girls, or not, depending on girls I suppose these days. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whatever, I have a feeling he will want to come back to us if I do get my
driving licence back in the hope that we can go out for the day with us both
driving. We had stopped going off because Jan found it too hard to do all the
driving on a long trip. She did try to do it all but it was clear from the
start that was finding hard. That was why we didn’t do any birding last year. I
only had had one trip to London on the coach too, but that was before my
operation and by heck I suffered for it the next few days. Not only that, but I
didn’t get a lot of photography done either.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You know me and Facebook, right? Well, there’s a group on there called
Creative Writing Support that I follow. The other day another user mentioned
that she wished she was retired so she can spend more time writing. Opps … I am
retired and I don’t spend all that much time writing anyway, so I said so –
another opps methinks. However, considering we were not racing around the
country birding or just out on day trips for the fun of it (not that birding
isn’t fun of course), I had plenty of time to write. So why didn’t I get on and
do more. One word my friends PROCASTINATION! A certain killer to all writing
hopes and dreams. Quickly followed by another reason, too bloody lazy. I need
to conquer both this year. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yet isn’t not really that I didn’t do a lot of writing last year; I
mean, I did get this bog done most days of the year, but even so, once that was
done I was ready for a break. The inevitable followed, I didn’t get back to
doing any more writing on my novels. Ideas came and were noted; mini-rants were
also noted (I’ve always found it useful to get things out of my system by
shouting about it on paper). And yet none, or very little has been turned into
useful things for the novels, yes, novel</span><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s</span></u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, plural. I do have several on
the go that I play about with at different times. See what I mean –
PROCASTINATION again, do anything but getting on and doing what needs to be
done. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enough of that – today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ve posted this one before, but I like
it, Arnie nit-picking. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you hear about the
kidnapping? He woke up.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">20 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We’re up early this morning to be with Kile for when he goes off school,
he’s already left and I should think he’s got there by now. Jan tried to get to
the bottom of his free meals school meals last night, and I’m still confused.
If he has free meals, then why does he take cash to school too? Not only that,
why does he have to have a sandwich before they will let him buy anything else?
Hopefully Jan will get to the bottom of it when she goes off to spend the day
with his mum in a wee while. Whatever, Jan has made him a chicken batch this
morning, at least we know he like that! Oh yes, I nearly forgot; we received a
text message to say that he was coming here after school today to get ready for
an after-school kick-boxing class. Now we have through to Tuesday.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With Jan out for most of the day, I shall be getting on doing some
writing. My pen is full, my paper pile is sat here waiting; all I need to do
now is to get done on here so I make a start. What I haven’t decided on yet is
when to start typing up </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arathusia</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,
but I think I have learned something at least. Currently I’m using an A4 pad for
the hand writing; it’s a large fairly heavy to lug about. So many other writers
use A5 notebooks, a lot easier to carry around ready for use. Maybe I should
try that too seeing the large number of them I have here, most of which Dave
left. That is for the future though, right now I need to get on and get finished
here. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wednesday I commented about Doug Paully and his win in the courts over a disability
issue and suggested it is a much wider issue than the UK bus industry. The
airline industry has come under fire too. EasyJet has been fined by a French
court for refusing to allow a disabled passenger to board one of their flights,
and not for the first time either. Their reason for the refusal was security
issues and the disabled man travelling alone. £51K this last time and they are
considering appealing against it. Jan and I are fortunate in that we don’t use
air travel all that often, but when we do, our disabilities mean we can’t have
access to the seats with the extra room. The reason is that the emergency exits
are there and must be kept clear. We accept that as being reasonable and don’t
make a fuss. As I said the other day, it’s that 10 letter word again …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Australia is now having to deal with a nutcase – err, no, I’d better
change that, a mentally ill </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">driver with
a history of violence has deliberately driven at a crowd of pedestrians and
killed three of them. So, the UK is not the only place where such people are
allowed to roam freely in public. How many other places do likewise and when
will they learn that care in the community doesn’t work. Perhaps the body count
will never reach a high enough figure for that. To admit a mistake is hardest
thing any politian can do. To do so will allow questions to be asked over other
issues they are responsible for. And it is the politicos who make those policy
decisions, not the health-care professionals. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Farter’s big day today my friends, and I’m sick of it already. The news
will be full of it today and for the next week too. How on earth did he manage
to win an election? I don’t know if he had help from outside to get there, but
I doubt he could do it on his own. Ye gods … I shudder to think what he will do
to the US economy and the effects it will have on the world economy. The
real-world skulldugeries in Washington must be rubbing their hands with joy at
the prospect of an easy target and the huge amount of dollars that will come
their way.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whatever … today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We still have this little beauty.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A little girl asked her father if
all fairy tales begin with "Once upon a time?"<br />
He replied, "No, some begin with 'If I am elected.”</span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-45057419710229493522017-01-19T02:27:00.000-08:002017-01-19T02:32:49.234-08:00Writing marches forward+<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">19 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Handwriting vs typing, which is best would you think? No matter what I
said yesterday, I can’t make up my mind on this one. I did spend a fair amount
of time hand writing day before yesterday, but as I said, I will need to type
it up later too. I suppose really, what I am wondering is when is it the best
time start typing. Is it wait until the work is completely finished, or type it
up as soon as you finish that’s day’s work. The fear of losing work is a worry
for many writers. There have been a few times that I have thought I’ve lost a
whole days’ work. Luckily, I have found it soon after. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What I have lost though is over 100,000 words from this blog. The word
count was reading 940,000+ words when I had finished for the day. I closed down
the doc and saved it as normal, but the next day when I came to open it, I had
to search for it. When I eventually found and opened it, the word count was down
to 830,00+ words, and over three months of work had gone. I still haven’t found
it either, not fun, but in reality it’s not all that a worry, the blogs
concerned are on-line anyway. Now I have copies saved to three different
sources as well as the cloud, hopefully that will work.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I wonder about that too. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apparently
there some computers manufacturers who have stopped adding USB ports to their
machines. In such cases the users will have no choice but to save the to the
cloud, and pay for the privilege too. So, when we will our USB devices become redundant?
I’m thinking of our cameras and how they connect to the lappy, but there again,
as long as there is a SD card port, that should be a problem. Printers will
need to be wi-fi machines too; I know ours are but we’ve never bother trying to
set them up that way. Perhaps we should really?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so the pace of technology races ahead. I wonder if that SecDef in
Washington thought about just how far his decision would go when he was faced
with three different systems to contacting the three US armed forces. Alan
Turing and his code breakers using their Colossus machine would have not
thought that the computing power in an average wrist watch these days would be
greater than the power of their big beastie. There’s a law in computer that
goes something like this, the power of computing chips will double every 18
months, while their size and cost will reduce at the same rate. I can’t
remember who said that now, but at least the first clause is right, and maybe
the second one is too when you compare what you can get today with what you got
two years ago for the same cost. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Software changes at a similar rate. I current use Photoshop 12 for my
photo editing; every so often I get an email arrive telling my P/shop 15 is
better and faster. Oh really? It’s only faster when the user able to use that
extra built in speed. No, I think I shall keep using 12 until I buy a new
camera, and that day is a long way off. The Office 2016 I use is working OK for
now, but the change to it has caused a few upsets along the way. I have a
feeling the change from 2010 to 2016 is what caused me to lose all those blogs
entries. Windows 10 has been out and in use for around 18 months now, I wonder
when the next one will come out. Yes, I know they said there won’t be one, but
do you really believe was MS says? But which comes first? Is the software trying to catch up or is the technology racing ahead to keep ahead of the software? </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Computers are everywhere these days, I’m sure you don’t need to be told that.
Everything we do is being recorded somewhere or other. Pay for your petrol by at
Tesco, they’ve got it in the data; pay for your lottery tickets, two new
paperbacks and a daily paper at WH Smiths, and they have your details in their
data. That is something else that SecDef wouldn’t have thought about, but I bet
the current one has. We already know that all our intelligence services use
computers and hackers on a regular basis. Maybe the days of Tom Cruise and his
Mission Impossible isn’t that far away my friends. Just watch your back next
time you get your credit card to buy that curry n chips in the local chippy … …
…</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A tufted duck – nowt ter do wiv ‘puters!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Judge: ''Do you wish to challenge
any member of the jury?'' Prisoner: ''Well, I think I can beat that little
fellow on this end...''</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really don’t believe that I got some writing done yesterday, other than
the blog that is; yes, around 2,000 words of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arathusia </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">now safely on paper. I got to a point where there was a
natural break in the story line which made it the right place to stop. Hand
writing is a good way for making sure you have cut the chances of losing your
work to a minimum, but it all needs to be typed up at some point. However, the
hand written version really is a first draft, something that I wouldn’t be
happy for anyone to read through. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday I finished Parry Hotter 6, and began GOT 6. The Prologue took
some working through, very hard actually, but once I started the main story it
was a lot easier. The Imp is at the start but haven’t looked any further on
yet. I read something on Facebook about Mr Martin is due to release or begin, #8;
about time too. There was another article about him writing another series. My
thought was it looked like another series he could get bored with. It’s a pity
really, I do like his work, I just wish he’d get on with it. I would not be
surprised that someone isn’t holding a large mirror on me over that comment –
ah well … ... …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disability access has come to the attention of the courts again. This is
due to a guy I know personally who had a problem on a bus when I passenger
refused to leave a dedicated seat for wheelchair passengers. That happened in
2012 and finally Doug has won his case, or has he I wonder? As with all
legislation issues with disability rights, nothing is totally clear. Ambiguous
words like ‘reasonable, could, depending on circumstances’ and so on can be
argued over for years. The passenger who refused to move was a young mother
with a sleeping baby. She claimed that her buggy couldn’t be folded down. I don’t
know about you but I do think she had a point at that time. As a mother, she
needed to be close to her baby, and that does seem reasonable to me. Yes, it
was difficult for Doug who had to wait for another bus, but under the
circumstances, I would agree with the mother. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first became aware of Doug during my time with the OU. At one time
myself and a few others got together to form a Disabled Students Society in the
OUSA (Open University Students Association). The word Society was soon ditched
in favour of Group. Doug was one of our supports at the time. As we moved
forward as a group within OUSA, it became clear that the word ‘disability’ was
also ambiguous, no, wrong word really. It became clear that there were far more
medical conditions that caused disability, and various degrees of disability
too, that there really was a major difficulty in providing a level playing
fields for everyone.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example; I was a member of the geology society. They arranged field trips
to various venues where clear signs of interesting geology could be studied, I
got to go on one of them and that was when I first saw a trace fossil and
understood what it was. Anyway … it occurred to me that if the GS organised a
trip to walk up Mount Snowdon, there was no way that they would be able help
someone who spent their lives in mobility scooters/chairs to attend that trip.
To my mind it was unreasonable for us expect them to do so.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Different disability’s effect people in different ways, for example mental
illness. How many conditions are there that come under that banner I wonder?
Diabetes is another one. In my case it’s well controlled by diet and the
metformin I take twice a day, they there are many diabetics who have to be very
careful in what they eat and what they do on an hour by hour basis. To be funny
useful for all diabetics would be impossible to my mind. Along this line, a
student from Telford I know was allergic to lettuce, yes, lettuce. At one
meeting I attended she had indicated that no lettuce in her lunch. It arrived
OK, nice presented in a covered plate with her name on the cover – but garnished
with, yes, lettuce. And on it goes … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This little rant began over a court case in London. It’s not just on bus services
that they are access problems. Nuneaton railway station has lifts install to
get from platform to platform, great idea from someone. However, if a mobility
scooter rider or wheelchair user needs to travel by train, they are advised to
book a few days early, ‘so the kit needed can be there for use.’ Oh really? And
what happens if the journey is an emergency? How do those passengers manage? I
heard of one lady who got on a train but because there were no wheelchair
spaces, she had ride in the baggage car. The rail industry is still not doing
very well on this one.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s an issue not confine just to the railways though is it. There is a tendency
these days for anyone who is disabled to classed as being a faker, and scrounger
or just generally looked down on for not trying enough. The people who abuse the blue badge systems don't help either. That is an attitude
that needs to change; however, there a number of disabled people who do not
help the rest of us. Rugby has more than just the odd one or two, and even here
in our town we have more than few too. Public concerns will never really change
until all disabled people show themselves to be just like everyone else, but
unable to do everything an able-bodied person can.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps J K got the idea of the house hour glasses from
here?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A man and his wife were watching
golf on tv and the sound on the commentary was rather low. The woman went to
turn it up. 'Ssh,' said the husband, 'ssh. Not while he's putting.'</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-58440801356373607702017-01-17T03:58:00.002-08:002017-01-17T04:00:04.876-08:00Whate happened to the Jobsworth caps?<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you remember Esther Rantzen and her Jobsworth Caps? A case has come to
light 2015 when two enforcement officers gave a fixed penalty to a 65 year old
woman because she poured her coffee down the drain. She paid up but Ealing
Council have apologised and refunded the fine. Fine; but why was the fine
issued anyway? I mean, come on; cops tip booze down the drain whenever they
find some kid under 18 drinking in a public place. Would they be issued with a
fixed penalty ticket? I doubt it very much! No, this case was two council
employees behaving like school yard bullies by picking and what they thought was
an elderly lady who would pay up without question. I would hope that they are
no longer employed by any council, let alone Ealing.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are quite a few such jobs within councils where these ‘officers’
can raise fines against the public. Dog control officers are another one, but
who would object to them issuing a ticket for leaving doggie doo on the
pavement? Litter tickers I’ve already mentioned but the largest group are the
traffic wardens of course. Where does the council get the authority for these
people to fine people without the case going to court? What has happened to our
right to fair trial by our peers? </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even so, can you imagine the state of our towns and cities without these
people giving out those tickets? I live in Germany for around 18 months, Cyprus
for 15 months, and even in Kenya for eight weeks, I don’t remember seeing any litter
lying around. My three holidays in Mallorca I didn’t see all that much litter,
and certainly no dog mess. So why is it that these places are so clean and yet
some areas of our own country is such a mess most of the time. It could be that
it’s the minority of yobs that cause it, but why are they so lax in their
personal discipline? Is it that they have never heard to the word ‘No’ in a
meaningful manner? I wouldn’t be surprised. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Challenge anyone over an illegal act and all you get is the mouthful of
abuse. The last time it happened to me was when I saw a woman driving through
town while using her phone. She turned really nasty over it. Why? It was only
days after that trucker was jailed for killing those people in a car when he
was messing with his iPod. Another time I challenged a guy when he drove
through a no entry in town, parked up in a blue badge space. He told me to mind
my own business. So I did, and called the cops. Some of these people just don’t
like being told ‘no’. Tough luck on them.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here I sat happily thinking Jan would be out until sometime this
afternoon, and then the doorbell does its normal dingdong twice in quick succession.
I always lock the door when I’m here on my own, but I forgot to take the key
out, and Jan wasn’t happy about it … opps. She had gone up to spend some time
with Sam, one of her church friends, but she isn’t too well right now, so she
is due to go back to bed for a few hours before the kids come home from school.
So Jan is now going to the hairdressers this afternoon from here, not after she
had been to Bed’th for a few hours.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibonVGtXJgIjfyJlT2i5wqT7DdnIE2flw99itht9dLODlMTHN5Q6g6_4YlwpsBZFngPTAT_UGxIZNEIz1Csc08dWCHFabAqUYbQ4vjsPU6hBWM-cnZdup1iv0K6eR6IRAbf11dDrgrZ9A/s1600/DSC00660.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibonVGtXJgIjfyJlT2i5wqT7DdnIE2flw99itht9dLODlMTHN5Q6g6_4YlwpsBZFngPTAT_UGxIZNEIz1Csc08dWCHFabAqUYbQ4vjsPU6hBWM-cnZdup1iv0K6eR6IRAbf11dDrgrZ9A/s320/DSC00660.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is an old photo I got when we lived in Atherton. I
sue it for the cover of my novel </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Web of Hate. </span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Waiter, waiter, do they ever
change the tablecloths in thls restaurant? <br />
I don't know, sir. I've only been here a year.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-24999876122385685072017-01-16T05:42:00.000-08:002017-01-16T05:44:10.762-08:00Wealth, poverty and cheating the system<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">16 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don’t suppose we will ever really know if Russia did hack the US
election, however, France seems to be taking the idea seriously because it
taking extra measures to prevent it happening there. Either way, none of those
elections will have much of an effect on us here directly. The thought came to
me though that perhaps the ‘remainers’ might well claim the same has already
happened here with the BREXIT vote. That may well have an impact on us. Even
now the losing side is fighting a vicious rear-guard battle to stop what the
people of the UK have voted for. I shall leave you to make up your own mind on
this one, just remember where you heard this one.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have another run over to Selly Oak to do later this month, this time
for Jan to have a CT scan done. That’s two of those and a MRI scan she’s had
done in the last 12 months. We are hoping the operation gets done more quickly
than 12 months though. We are also hoping my licence arrives back in time for
the scan to be done, then I can drive for that one. As for me and my back, I’m
still taking the same pain killers but not as often now, and then because of
hip pain, not back pain. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As if the NHS hasn’t got enough to deal with, BBC <i>Inside Out</i> show on at
7.30 this evening, is showing a patient selling his NHS prescriptions for cash.
The reporter paid £250 for a drug that costs £10,000 a year to issue. If the
guy is selling them, then he doesn’t really need them does he, and £1 to pinch
of brown mucky stuff, he’s not alone in this one. I’d like to bet that he is
cheating the DWP and local council as well, in which case, it’s time he was
caught and dealt with. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is one item that has come to light, but I do wonder how many other
such cases there are. The NHS costs us billions every year, and with that kind
of money floating around there will always be those with an eye on where to
divert some of it into their own pockets. We occasionally hear about cases
where NHS employees have managed to find ways to cheat the system, sometimes
these people are in senior management positions. They know how stretched the
service and keep pushing for more savings, ‘to meet budget cuts’, but also to
make the lining of their pockets thicker. Such people should be given serious
jail-time when they are caught, not wrist-lapping jail-time. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do like </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who Do You Think You Are?
</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the BEEB show on family history. The last one saw was Ricky Tomlinson. He
knows Liverpool, of course he does, he was born there and still lives there.
His back ground is as a strong union man and did a two year stretch one time because
of it. As he traced his family line back he found out that due to accident he
lost two of his distant family. Their widows were then plunged into poverty and
that really angered him. Liverpool was a prosperous city in the mid to late 19</span><sup><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
Century, yet the rich lorded it over the people the people who were creating
that wealth, the men on docks. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My thoughts were pretty much the same as his, at least to begin with.
Then I realised that things are not so different these days, are they? Liverpool
is no different to the rest of the UK, with thousands of people being fed from
food banks, and with numbers due to rise too. Then I began to think a wee bit
more; Tomlinson is no longer living in poverty, is he? So I began to wonder
just what he was doing personally to help out those less fortunate than he and
his family is. It’s all well and good bleating about how unfair a system is,
but those bleats need to matched by deeds on the street, or they are just hot
air.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The same question can be asked of me too. What do I do to help? That’s a
hard question to reply to, isn’t it? Let’s face it, if I was listed what Jan
and I do, it look like boasting, but please rest assured that we do help as and
when we can. However, there is one we never do, and that is to give money to beggars
on the street. Some are in genuine need, a lot aren’t, but how can we tell? We
can’t. Perhaps if we want to help them, take them to a pub or chippy and buy
them a meal, don’t give them cash. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What happened to yesterday’s blog? Simple, I just didn’t feel up to it,
very tired when I got up and I remained tired for most of the day. In fact, I
was in bed just after 9 pm but didn’t settle until just on midnight, and I must
have dropped off pretty quickly too.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A dog rose.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is green, has four legs and two trunks?<br />
Two seasick tourists.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-72507267822386624042017-01-14T03:51:00.000-08:002017-01-14T03:52:46.195-08:00BREXIT delays, unreliable weather but loads-a-reading matter<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">14 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet again a minority group may delay the triggering of Article 50. First,
we had that silly woman going to court over it, now we have the prats in
Stormont causing waves over long held hatred of each other, and of Britain as a
whole. When will Scotland try it on again as their first minister is
threatening. Not sure about Wales though. I said at the time that it should
have been triggered as soon as the result was known. Another item on MSN
newsfeed is that Farter Trump wants Europe to pull apart; I’m almost temped to
change sides and become a remainer over that one just to spoil his fun – almost,
but not quite.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems that the weather fears over the weekend were unfounded. That’s
the problem with weather forecasting I suppose; damned if they do, damned if
they don’t get it right. And yes, I’m well aware of my dislike of their less
than accurate predictions. I was hoping we could get into town today but it was
raining when I got up, so that one is out now; pity really, I was looking
forward to an all-day breakfast in Whetherspoons too. Something to look forward
to for next Saturday. Even so, our weather is not as extremes as other parts of
the world, for which I am grateful.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last night I finished Robert Southworth’s third Spartacus novel, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pharaoh’s Blade.</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It’s an excellent
series of three novels that ultimately leads to the downfall of the arch baddie
– although I’m saying no more on that one other his greed finally catches up
with him. This series I’ve read on my kindle app on my tablet, and after ending
that one I began the last novel in a series of four sci-fi, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Synchronicity War.</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Again, it’s
another great series, space opera at its very best. One that one is finished I
have others in a similar vein to start, more space operas too. They always seem
to be in series, probably because of the size of the story line is just too
large to fit into just one volume. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have you noticed that fantasy novels are in series too? </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game of Thrones, </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in seven volumes, as
are the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Parry Hotters, Lensmen </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">books.
Michael Moorcock and Anne McCaffery seemed to produce stand alone and series of
books. Moorcock’s </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Count Brass</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and McCaffery’s
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dragonriders</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> are both worth looking
out for. Moving away for sci-fi, crime writers also produce series don’t they.
Rebus, Roy Grace, Peter Diamond, Tony Hill, Alan Banks … … … and oh so many
more, all series but each novel a stand-alone story. I’ll sneak in another one
here, Ron G Clark’s Fred Cooper series,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
House of Pain </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Web of Hate. </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His
third in the series is stuck at the moment and needs an extensive re-write. OK,
the last two are my own novels, but just a mention them in passing.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Facebook yesterday there was a post from one group I follow,
ForReadingAddicts, which I heartily recommend my friends by the way, in which
one of the admin team said her TBR (to be read), pile is at around 35 books.
That got me think and I went off to the bedroom to snap my TBR pile, or at
least part of it, and that is today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I said ‘part of it,’ I
really do mean just a tiny part of it, only 40 in that pile. We were out the day shopping and in the
Coop they have a charity book stall now, so I added two more which are not in
that pile. In addition I have well over a hundred on my kindle app too, plus
even more books on my book shelves. Sitting here I can see a Lynda la Plante waiting
to be read. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An elderly gentleman had serious
hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor
was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed him to hear
perfectly.<br />
He went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing’s
perfect. Your family must be pleased you can hear again."<br />
To which he said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and
listen to the conversations. I've already changed my will 3 times!"</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-89898829211589736642017-01-13T04:13:00.003-08:002017-01-13T04:15:19.312-08:00Cold, wet and the NHS in a mess<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13 January</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While so much of the UK is under snow or fearing floods, our little town
has got away with it again with only a slight dusting of snow. That seems about
par for the course for us. If we do get a good covering, then the rest of the
country is really badly affected by it. Flooding can be a problem though, but
even so, not to the extent of other areas. There are photos around from when
Bond Gate was flooded to around three feet, all for the River Anker that runs
through that part of the town. There’s a slight dip on the road at the junction
of Queens Road (formally Wash Brook Lane) and Edward Street, which tends to
flood every so often. The former name or Wash Brook Lane is the clue there
where a Wash Brook used to run down the middle of the road. It was covered over
at some point and is still runs through there coming out by Mill Street/Mill Walk.
Just to add a few more gallons to the flow, there’s a small stream that runs
down the rear of Duke Street and joins Wash Brook at some point. I also have a
feel a feeling there’s another one that joins it from the other side of Queens
Road that comes down for the Coventry Canal, but that isn’t a certainly. </span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The town’s name comes from a Saxon word, Eaton, which means water town,
or town by water. Most of the waterways in the town are small streams or brooks
which all tend to run into the Anker at some point. The largest of these is Wem
Brook, which begins its journey in Bed’th and joins the Anker in the Pingles
Fields. Taking in to account all of these water courses that all join the Anker
at some point, you can perhaps see where the name comes from. The Nun part of
the name comes from the nuns who were resident at St Mary’s Abbey on what is
now Manor Court Road. Like so many other places of worship the abbey became to
Henry VIII’s greed for money and power. The remains of the old Abbey can still
be seen in the grounds of what is now known at St Mary’s Abbey parish church. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming up to date then … This morning is bright any sunny but bitterly
cold. We were due to Kile again this weekend but we have had a text come in to
say he is off to Brum tomorrow for a shopping trip, he’ll love that – NOT! I
suppose it will be all down to what they are planning to shop for. What it
means is that we can now look at what we can do now, but it won’t be much
really. I really could do with getting some writing done with none done since
the 35 words I did late week end. Ah well … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you by any chance watch that BBC2 show </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hospital</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">? Talk about waste – it’s crazy the way they are being
forced to work right now, and there’s more cuts on the way too. For those who
missed it, it featured two patients who needed ITU post-operative care. The
problem was there were no beds in ITU to put them. Eventually one man got his surgery
done, the second man was cancelled for the second time when an emergency came
in by ambulance from Norwich. That second patient had his op the following day
but died five weeks later due a problem from the operation. What we don’t know
is whether he would have lived longer if he had been done instead of being
cancelled twice.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is little doubt in my mind that our NHS is in dire straits right
now, any yet there is so much waste within the service, waste that staff have
little or no room to control when patients are waiting, when OR staff are on
hold waiting for the word to begin surgery. There really is only so much wiggle
room and even that is becoming even tighter. All the slack has been taken up
and many hospital are working at 100% capacity. I had a look at MSN home news
feed this morning and there’s a story about a 22 month old child with a suspected
case of meningitis forced to wait five hours in A&E, simply because there
wasn’t a bed for him and the crush of patients turning up at A&E. All the
Prime Muppet could say was nothing she could do about it. Oh, really? She is
now in charge and there is plenty she can do about it! For starters she could
order any cuts to funding to stopped, she could order more beds for hospitals
and staff to run them. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At what point will they come to realise that they need to act now, not
later. Earlier this week the same Prime Muppet was making promises about mental
health care provision. But when will that happen, and will the funds for that
be ring-fenced so it gets spent where it should be spent, not being merged in
with the general health care budget. Does she have means to start kicking the
arses of those who run the service or is she just like all the others, nowt but
piss and wind in twisted knickers!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A primrose methinks.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you hear about the cannibal that arrived late
for a dinner party? He said, 'Am I late?' <br />
They said, 'Yes, everybody's eaten.' </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By heck it’s cold this morning! I’ve not been this cold first thing for a
long time now. Thing is though, it’s likely to get even colder with snow
forecast for later today – if the BEEB has got it correct for a change.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The licence forms are now with a GP for completing ready for sending off
and we’ve put the right postage on the envelop too. Now it’s just a case of
sitting back and waiting for the next load of forms to come back. At least we
are not in such a rush to get it all sorted out now. At the speed they work at
these days, it’s a good job we’re not in a rush I suppose.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What on earth caused that 15 year old girl to kill a seven year girl? If
it wasn’t for her age we still wouldn’t be told who the older girl is, but I
think at some time a judge will order her name released. It happened with Mary
Bell and again with the Jamie Bulger killers. Later she will get new ID and
will be set up well away from York in an attempt to try to protect her. It’s
her family that I feel sorry for. I can’t see they would have any inclining
that their girl was capable of such a crime. They must be worried sick now
about what comes next. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for the victim’s family, well, words could never express the horror of
what they are going through right now. How could not have sympathy for them,
along with the disgust that she has been taken from them so cruelly. I just
hope that the killer is not from a friend’s family, that would be doubly cruel.
For the wider community who know the little girl, school friends and so on,
they too will be affected to some degree. Such a tragedy all round. What we need
to see happening now, is the judge hearing the case will not treat it lightly.
These days however, I don’t think that will happen. There’s been so many child
killings over the years, public feeling has hardened quite a lot, even when the
killer is a child too.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Regular readers of this blog will know that I do rage a good bit at the
legal system for being too weak. I had hoped that the UK was on the only modern
country where that is so, until I read this … </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Fyrare/photos/a.10150234396345394.480702.324870550393/10156970948460394/?type=3&theater"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.facebook.com/Fyrare/photos/a.10150234396345394.480702.324870550393/10156970948460394/?type=3&theater</span></b></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was posted to Facebook by one of my many distant
cousins over the pond there. Six months for Rape? Do come on now! That is pitiful.
Even so, I have a feeling that he will know by now just how devastating rape
can be, for both sexes. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An unusual clock. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A youngster was looking at the family photo album
and asked his mother, ''Who's the slim young man on the beach with you with
lots of muscles and curly hair?'' <br />
''That's your father.'' <br />
''Then who's the old bald-headed fat man that lives with us now?</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11 January</span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hospitals; none of us really like them but where would we be without
them? Jan had an appointment at Selly Oak in Brum at 9.30 yesterday morning. We
set off around 7.30 to get there in time, and we did. That was where their IT
system kicked in and cocked it all up. There are two ways to book in over
there, in person at the reception, or using a terminal on the wall. A volunteer
showed her how to use the terminal, which show her as having booked in. BUT …
it was at a different clinic and at 1030 she queried at reception. Then they
found out why she hadn’t been seen to time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we did get to see the consultant Jan said he was a different one to
who she saw the last time. Whatever, that guy yesterday is the one who will
actually do Jan’s back when the time comes – in 12 months! That’s a horrendous waiting
list, and it could end up as being the first of many such operations of the
coming years. He showed us scans of another lady, no names obviously, who had
what Jan is due to have done. She later two more operations to fully correct
the problem. He explained that there is a 30-50% chance of Jan having to go the
same route. By those figures he’s got himself a job for life I think.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The thing is, she does need to have the job done. She is in constant pain
because of it and it’s starting to impact on her life a heck of a lot. I
already knew she can’t look up because of the spinal curvature, but that means
she is having to turn her head to the side when she fishes a drink. As she
walks she always looking down at the ground and driving is OK for now, but it
is slowly becoming an issue as she tries to keep her head up straight. The job
needs doing, such a shame about the waiting times. We finally got home quite
late yesterday afternoon and that is why there was no blog yesterday, I was
just too tired.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are going out again today for shopping and when we do I have to get
the right postage to return those forms to DVLA. I spoke to the practice
secretary yesterday afternoon about names and dates and so on and she suggested
I drop them off and a doctor will go through them and fill in what’s required.
I’ve filling my name, address and so on and signed them where needed and she
assured me that they will sort out the time required for them. It’s certainly
looking like I will need that licence back pretty soon. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we were sorting through Dave’s bedroom in Bracebridge Street, we
found a large bottle of Quink ink and looked like it hadn’t been opened. We
couldn’t see any use for it at the time so we threw it out, along with so many
other things too. We still have quite a bit of stationary that we found, among
them a heck of a lot of pens and pencils, most of which we now keep in a large
plastic box. I got the idea that I had some passport photos in there, so I
looked for them, and found yet another Parker fountain pen. I already use a Sheaffer
pen and I can’t use another Parker. Why he kept buying them I’ll never understand.
Same with all the pencils he bought, no need for them, no need at all. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo is another oldie I’m afraid … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brums golden Pigeon pooping
place.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Smile! It makes people wonder
what you've been up to.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That W10 problem I mentioned yesterday was not the end of it, oh no … In
an attempt to fix it I thought perhaps closing the lappy down and then
restating it again after a short wait might fix it. First job was the close-down
the programs I had open at the time and saving what needed to be saved first of
course. Hmmm … strange, why won’t it close-down now? Problem two then. I tried
again this morning and still now go, even worse, my documents opened in a
format I’ve not seen before, problem three. Once I had things closed-down again
I did a hard close-down by holding the power button down.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Around a minute later I started up again, it was very slow to get going,
but I expected that. First job was to try Edge, and it worked – yeahhhh … Then
I opened up word ready to write this, and it opened in the funny format again. This
time it opened with s few drop-down menus so had a look, clicked on Edit and
finally problem three was solved. As for problem two, well, that will have to wait
until later today. Computers eh – who’d ‘ave ‘em …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A new TV show start and eight part series on Channel 5 last Friday so I
set it to record just in case I forgot about it, and I did too. Anyway, we
watched last night after Kile went home and it wasn’t at all bad, even if it
did show some of the downsides of living in Benidorm. It majored on working out
there</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by concentrating on just four
people, an estate agent, two entertainments guys working in different locations
and finally a guy who set up an auction house. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the entertainment guys, I young bloke who runs fitness and dance
classes was very motivated. As he said at one point, ‘If I don’t have any
clients I don’t eat, simple as that.’ I was impressed with that stance, and to
make it even more interesting is that he is a recovering alcoholic druggy who
has got himself clean and intends to stay like that. Some of his clients were
interviewed too, one of whom was recovering from cancer. Moving to Spain has
really improved her life. She said that if she had remained in England she
would have been stuck in a wheelchair. Our health is one of the reasons we are
looking at maybe going out. </span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for the other entertainments
guy, I got fed up with his ‘Happy days’ comment nearly every sentence he
uttered. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The estate agent was getting panicky
after several months without any sales and finally made one and now has a
£1million place to sell. It’s a lovely house, large and luxurious, so she will
have to be selective in who she takes there for a viewing, me and Jan would
certainly not be interested. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The actuation house took in €9,000 on auction day, leaving the owner €3,000
clear for him after paying various people their cut. This auction house sells
furniture and general household goods. Apparently, new furniture is expensive
in Spain, so he has found a niche for himself, and he’s making more than enough
to feed him and his wife and have fun when not at work. Looking forward for the
next one now.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looks like we’re stuck in here for the day now seeing as it’s raining
quite hard out there. I’m happy about that seeing as I wasn’t fussed on going
out today anyway. But no new photos though, so today’s</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is another oldie … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A rather nice white
flower.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why did the baker stop making
donuts?<br />
Because he was tired of the hole business.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-38552924900800028952017-01-08T03:23:00.001-08:002017-01-08T03:23:32.088-08:00Writing vs telly ...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8 January</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hmm; my W10 browser Edge has decided it doesn’t want to play anymore. It
actually happened on Thursday and I have no idea why. I had been in a live chat
to cancel my £90 subscription to MacAfee internet security, simply because I
think ninety quid is far too much. After saving the chat and copying it to a
Word doc too, I clicked out of it and opps, Edge won’t now work. I do have
Firefox which is still working so I’m not being held up any now, but actually,
I quite like Edge. Ah well …</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">MS Office did an update just before Christmas and it now includes suggests
for reducing word counts. It’s bugging the life out of me, come on, Yanks
telling me what I should write; not on folks, not on at all! Having said that,
some of the suggestions do actually make sense, but most are just being pedantic,
so I ignore them. One word it always picks up the word ‘actually’, as it the sentence
before this one. What the software suggests is not what I want, so I ignore it.
It’s just that it’s a pain in the rear end whenever it happens. </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We writers are urged not over-write stories. There’s a ban on words like ‘very’,
at least you would think so the way some folks go on. One wise(?) person said, ‘If
you see and adjective, cut it out!’ Oh really? An American writer/tutor has a
hate on the word ‘replied’ and gets shirty if he sees it in any submitted work.
Some of these people need to get a lot more methinks! Anyway, I get the impression
that this latest Word update is about these ‘rules’, but I’ve never really been
one for obeying the rules at the best of times. This one I shall continue to
ignore. </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It does make me wonder though where these rules come from, who thinks them
up. The why question is easy, they need fill their rice bowls. These hated
words are there to be used, so why not use them? What is the point of having
certain words unless you do use them? OK, I can some point to some of the rules,
but I don’t see so many make a big fuss over them. Nope, I shall continue to
use whatever is there to be used. Besides, I’ve seen big name writers who
ignore those same rules; is that case of ‘do as I say not as I do’? If so, then
perhaps I need to find some new writers to follow.</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has been so long since I did any work on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arathusia</i> that I had where I had got to with it. The hand written
first draft is standing at 151 A4 sheets; the typed up version 78 pages. Part
of my problem with it was that I had difficulty in finding where typed story
ended so that I could continue on without doubling up. Yesterday I spent some
time looking for and finding where the story had got to. I was also missing
some of my ‘prompt’ sheets I use. They cam to light the other day and that
helped. So there I was, sat here, fountain pen filled, paper in front of me and
heard the dreaded words … ‘Are going to some telly love?’ I managed to write 35
words, just 35! Hopefully I shall get more done soon.</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am also aware that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… and Bristol
Fashion</i> ended a lot looser than I would have liked. Me old mate Bill Howe
is proofing for me, and will make the changes he suggests. Bill is good and I
trust him in what he says. Once that is done I shall then see where I tightened
it up, and maybe even round it off a lot better than it is right now. It’s
either or writing a third book to the series, something I hadn’t planned on. I’m
not so sure the story line is strong enough for a third instalment though. We shall
see in the fullness of time. </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I shall be pleased to get out and get some new photos this year. As it
stands I haven’t lifted my camera to eye level for some time now. That means
that today’s photo is another for my old folders … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A couple of wigeon. </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="background: white; mso-background-themecolor: background1; tab-stops: 255.75pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister
heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt.</span> <span style="color: black;">Apparently, his
five-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper
burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting,
then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.</span> <span style="color: black;">The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate
prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his
father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather. .and unto the Sonnn ... and
into the hole he gooooes."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">7 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yesterday morning I sat here staring at a blank screen and after twenty
minutes I decided to see what funny to post, perhaps something else would pop
into me ‘ed while I was at it. The result is that today’s funny is actually
yesterday’s funny – and I still had a blank screen to star at. Normally I don’t
have a lot of time for so-called writer’s block; I normally call it procrastination,
or lack of discipline. After yesterday I might have a little more sympathy over
the issue; we’ll see … … …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An ex-Royal Marine is creating a stir on his housing estate by ticketing
cars who are parking outside his house to save paying the illness tax of parking
in the nearby hospital car park. I have some sympathy with him really, but only
up to a point. None of us have a legal right to park outside our own house, and
that is the issue here, or is it? The head-line that attracted me to the story
claimed the man objected to the poorly parking of the cars, not that they were
there in the first place. Drivers who get the ticket are complaining, home
owners are complaining because the drivers are angry at them. We have a similar
situation outside here too, again, it’s down to drivers parking selfishly. By
that I mean taking up two spaces, which means no-one else can get in. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There’s not that many complaints about it these days though, we’ve given
up on it. The issue that still annoys me though is the non-disabled parking in
spaces for blue badge holders. Most of the supermarkets are refusing to police
the issue, certainly we have been told by Tesco they won’t do so. Perhaps it’s
the aggression of so many people these days when their wrong-doing is point out
to them that pushes Tesco down this path. There’s a strong market for stolen
blue badges too because of the cost of parking in so many places these days. I
suppose it could be argued that it’s yet another victimless crime and therefore
not serious. However, by illegally using a blue badge deprives a genuine person
of a much needed parking place, and that does leave a victim.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mobile phone use is another issue where people don’t like being picked up
for it. We hear cries of, ‘It’s hardly the crime of century is it?’ They should
go and tell the families of those killed when they are hit in this so-called
minor, or non-offence. Do you watch the reality-cop shows on telly? If so, have
you noticed the number of single maned cars where they have to drive and use
their radios at the same time? See, makes a mockery of it doesn’t it? </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How many drivers have you seen smoking while driving? There’s not as many
these days but there still a good few of them. Think about it a sec; they reach
for the pack, flick it open, take one out, return the pack, pick up the matches
or lighter, so far not too bad you might think, but what about lighting the
damned ciggy. I’ve seen then using both hands to do so, steering with their
elbows as the do so. Isn’t it time this one was tackled be now? Ahhhh … but
there’s a need to raise dosh from taxes paid and that might fall by cracking
down just one small minority of people. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oh yes, we’ve heard of guys being stopped while watching a DVD and
driving, of women being stopped as they apply their makeup, and another guy
eating pasta as he drove. There’s even a case of woman getting a ticket for
drinking water while stationary at a red traffic light (which did seem a tad
silly on the cops part with that one). So yes, there’s lots of distractions out
there on the roads these days, and there will be one that will be right up your
street that you may end up getting a ticket for at some time. What it need is
for all of us to be careful while we drive, simple as that.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today’s photo …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One of my distractions, classic cars, Jan was driving though. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">A little boy came home eating a big candy bar. His mother (remembering
he had already spent all his allowance) asked him where he got it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"I bought it at the store with the dollar you gave me," he
said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"But that dollar was for Sunday School," his mother replied.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"I know, Mom," he said, "but the Pastor met me at the
door and got me in for free!"</span></span></div>
BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-13507217810825789742017-01-05T03:51:00.003-08:002017-01-05T03:52:49.605-08:00Educated idiots everywhere<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fake news, what is it I wonder? I’ve just been looking at the MSN
homepage and one item caught my attention for the silliness of the headline; ‘Do
you live close to a busy road? You could be at risk of Alzheimer’s.’ It seems
today that whatever you do you are likely, or could develop some illness or
other. I know, why don’t we all live in cotton wool shrouds, stay at home
sitting on the floor in the freezing cold and without any lights. Oh, no, that
won’t work will it? We could become diffy in Vitamin D and might get rickets from
it. That’s if we managed to live that long that is seeing as drinking water is
dangerous and cooking food could set our shrouds on fire. Needless to say, I
didn’t bother reading that one.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday was the 50 year anniversary of the death of Donald Campbell on
Conistone Water. There aren’t that many men of adventure like him about these
days, health and safety laws have put a stop to those types of fun and games.
Well, at least here in the UK it has. Bloody busybodies get everywhere these
days. At least abroad those that wish to can get off the beaten track do things
some of can only dream of doing. There’s a guy who took a film crew with him
when he trekked across Central America. At one point he passed through an area
controlled by a drugs cartel and the cops came in to stop and escort him. The
cartel is known for killing outright or kidnapping people for ransom. It’s not
a trek I would consider but if he wants to do it, fine, let him get on with it.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Health and safety – a term that should come with a health warning of its
own. It makes me smile at times though. Like the time I went into Barclays bank
here in town during a time when they remained open while major alterations were
being made around the customer areas. There were the contractors, all wearing
hard hats and hi-vis vests; and beside them were the bank staff and customers
with no protection at all. How silly can things get? These people are what my
dad used to call educated idiots, he was right too wasn’t he.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brexit is running into all kinds of trouble again. You won’t need me to
tell that the chief negotiator has resigned over the issue. But hang on a mo,
did he resign over Brexit itself? Not from what I understand from the reports I’ve
read and heard. No, he resigned because the PM and her cronies don’t have an
idea what they should be doing and have cut him out of the process of making a
plan. I can understand that you know; he is the man who is supposed to sit down
with the rest of the EU ambassadors and work a deal that’s good for us. How can
he do that without any clear ideas or any set targets. You have to include such
a man in your planning meetings. After all, he is the one who knows how the EU
works better than any minister. So why has Tittering Terry cut him out? I’m
wondering if it would have been any different if Daft Dave was still in power?
But that’s counter-history, something I don’t have any respect for at all. It’s
the coulda-shoulda-woulda game for even more educated idiots with too much time
and not enough common sense on their hands. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday we sat in waiting for my foot butcher to arrive at 12.30; come
1pm Jan was about to phone her so I decided to check the diary first. The
appointment is for today, yesterday. At least I got the time right. Anyway, we’re
sat here again waiting for her now.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so it’s photo time … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Colour for sale.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s funny …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Magistrate: 'But if you saw the
lady driving towards you, why didn't you give her half the road?'<br />
Motorist: 'I was going to, Your Honour, as soon as I could find out which half
she wanted.'</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-48687386510442414472017-01-04T03:01:00.002-08:002017-01-04T03:03:24.502-08:00readin', writin', and being a silly boy <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4 January</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday went off OK and our first destination was Woodlands Garden
Centre. That place is an ‘ouch’ and then some. Prices are sky high and it seems
to keeps changing every time we go there. Jan wanted a drink so we headed for
the café and she came back with two small bottles of diet coke - £2 each! Even
then she had to ask to have the crown tops taken off. Later she was looking at
a new bonsai tree, £30 a time, perhaps we should have taken a gold card with
us. I was happy to go there simply because there’s a Works bookshop there. I
had already bought four books from a charity shop, but they are second hand
books, so I too opportunity to look at the new 3 for a fiver deals on offer.
Six books later … Now my TBR pile beside the bed will fall over if add any more
to it. But hang on a mow, there’s an almost empty shelf in the walk-in cupboard
we have … … … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s good and well having all these books to read but I really do need to
get on and get some writing done. Peter James has his own YouTube these days called
Peter James TV. I’m wondering how he manages to do so much. He writes his
books, he races cars, he does this YouTube thing, and he reads loads of books.
How does he do it? New writers are advised to read, read and when that’s done,
read some more. That all sounds fine, at least in theory, but I find it very
hard to find the time to actually sit and write. Part of the problem in not
having a ‘writers space’ for me to work in, my lappy is in the living room.
Another problem is my slow reading speed. At time it can take me and hour to
read just 20 pages in a novel, even when I’m enjoying the book. That is why I
tend to read paperback novels when I’m in bed. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another issue is the amount of time I spend on social media, the biggest
draw of the lot. But so does Peter James and so many other writers, or do they?
Some employ PAs to do all of those things for him. Some also pay researchers to
that side of the work for them. It does take a lot of the harder background
work off your hands. But what about the oblong light show that most of us addicted
to these days? I might be in middle of creative session and hear the words, ‘Are
we having a bit of telly now then?’ Oh dear; while telly is on I can’t concentrate
on anything else. Today will be awkward anyway because me foot-butcher is due
in a couple hours, and I need to get this done ready for posting. Oh how I wish
I was more disciplined …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That guy the cops shot yesterday has been named, and it’s a middle east type
name, and again the cops are saying it was a non-terrorist operation. It will
be interesting to see the reports from the investigation into it. Even though
there was a gun in the car, what was the man doing to cause cops to open fire?
Was he reaching for the gun, or was he just sat there trying to do what he was
told? Another question; why was he shot and none of the others? The dead man
was a known villain and had been found not guilty in an earlier firearms incident,
so he was far from being an innocent man caught up in the frenzy of the moment.
Like I said, the results of the investigation will be interesting to read.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a way I think the cops are in a no win situation at times. They have a
known criminal in front of them with a record of suspected firearms use; do
they take the chance and let get out of the car and perhaps end killing another
officer, or do they take the action they took yesterday? Damned if they do,
damned if they don’t. The question for me though, could have just wounded the
man and then taken him into custody? If not, why not. On the face of it he must
have been acting in such a way that they thought he was danger to them. These
cops don’t open fire for the fun of it. If they did, they wouldn’t be in the
armed response unit for very long. Another question? Did they expect any
firearm use from the guys in the car? Surly they must have, that’s why have the
armed cops there. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It will all come out in the wash I’m sure.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bum end of a downed tree. Not much of a root system is
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good morning folks; I’ve made a boo boo – I’m due to have a B12 injection
today. I have an appointment card in my wallet telling me so, and that was the
mistake. I thought it was actually already booked and the time was on the card.
It wasn’t; all it had was ‘B12 due today’. Finally, I got through to the GPs at
8.35 this morning and they offered me an appointment at 10.20. At least I am
can now relax over that one. I’m not looking forward to going out today though,
it’s bloomin cold out there and although there is no frost on the ground, the
weather forecast is for black ice and freezing temperatures.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it was I waited for 10 minutes and then was in and out and done in around
one minute. I wonder how much that cost? </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police have shot and killed a guy in Yorkshire in what they claim was a
pre-planned operation to arrest six men. Three were arrested at the same time
one died and two more were arrested at an address in Bradford. The cops have
said that it wasn’t an anti-terrorist operation but haven’t given any details,
I suppose it will all come out later. But I do wonder why one guy decided he
wouldn’t do as he was told when a number of guns were pointed at him by highly
trained marksmen. I’m bloomin sure I would!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet again there calls for the railways to taken back into public
ownership. After nearly 40 years of cash being poured into investors pockets,
it’s past time it was stopped. British Rail wasn’t the most efficient rail system,
but it was way better than the current farce we have now. Yes, there were
delays, yes, the trains were old and dirty, but have things improved? Not much
from what I see, apart from the fares going up through the roof. Rail and the
water companies were two concerns that should never have been privatised. Both
are huge and complex systems that don’t work very well when split into a lot of
different companies. There’s no continuity services now, and certainly with the
railways you can never be sure you have the correct ticket you need to travel on
any particular service. It’s way past time to bring it back into public
ownership.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another British soldier has died in Iraq, but no details have been given,
and yet I thought all our troops were withdrawn for there. Apparently we still
have troops in Afghanistan too. If they were withdrawn, why have some been sent
back? It makes no sense to me my friends, it really doesn’t, if the job was
done and over with why go back?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, this will be a short one cos we are now off out to do some shopping,
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a python.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you get if you cross a
automobile mechanic with an Egyptian mummy?<br />
A toot and car man.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span>BirderRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830160110384855808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258255309365518187.post-40081479046654447882017-01-02T04:03:00.002-08:002017-01-02T04:03:40.729-08:00New year, same old crap?
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time of year brings along all sorts of feelings for all of us. Some of
us feel positive and look forward to the challenges and opportuneness that the
new year brings. We used to feel that about birdwatching, starting the year off
with a clean slate and wondering what new species we would see. We don’t go
birding these days though, so now we don’t have that to look forward to. Even
so we are still positive about what this coming year will bring us. However,
I’m aware that there are many folk out there who think, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">new year, same old crap. </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The start of a new year must be really
depressing for them. Perhaps making New Year Resolutions might help? I’m not so
sure, the odd time I have done so they are in the realm of Forgottenland within
a week. Now, I don’t bother. I just get on and get done what needs to be done
when it needs doing.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what do we have planned for this year then? Nothing at all really
simply because we are now have to wait until we have a lot more information
about Jan’s up-coming back surgery and the recovery time. This is likely to be
the biggest surgery she has ever had done, and I have to be honest, she is
getting nervous about it. We can’t really plan anything until that has been
done and the recovery has happened. So far my health has improved leaps and
bounds since last August when my back was done; what I need to do now is to get
me finger out and do more than I am doing. You see …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m sat here writing me blog and all the time I have this little worm whispering
to me to forget the blog, there’s another novel that needs writing. Of course,
if I listened then the worm will whisper about the book on me kindle that needs
to read; later it’s the new Asimov book I started last night; and the film I
recorded late last night … … … It’s the writers worm I’m afraid, but maybe you
have one too who comes and whispers to you about what you could be doing if
were to stop doing what you’re doing now. And then there’s Jan; she is in the
kitchen making a cuppa put came back in to ask whether we should go out for a
couple of hours. I know she wants to go to a local garden centre anyway, so why
not. We will be popping out for a few hours later this morning. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, we could with getting out for a few
hours. I could do with some new photos too …</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whipsnade rhino.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you hear about the man who
fell into an upholstery machine? <br />
He is fully recovered now.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A happy new year to all my lovely readers, hope you have a good one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, what did you do with your extra one second last night? ‘What extra
second is that?’ It seems that our planet doesn’t spin at a constant speed and
a second had to added to one day so the atomic clocks and GMT keep the same
exact time. Money markets aren’t happy about it because of the way their
computers work, which now to be reprogramed. Of course we needed to be told
about it because it’s such an important topic that we really do need to know
about it. Let’s hope that spin doesn’t slow down this coming year or they’ll be
stealing it back off us next year.</span></span></h3>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Absolute Power,</span></span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the first David Baldacci book to be published in 1996, is what I am
currently reading in paperback. I bought it when I saw it because I’ve always
liked the film with Clint Eastward in the starring role of Luther Witney. The
film does follow the book pretty well for the first 300-odd pages, then it
changes, and what changes! I’ll not give them away just in case you fancy
giving it a go, but be prepared for those changes. Anyway, what this paragraph
is really about are the words, ‘in a New York minute’, which Baldacci uses
quite often in the book, but what is a New York minute and how does it differ
from say a Brum or Manchester minute. Well, it seems that it relates to the
hectic life style the New Yorkers are supposed to live. See, stick with me
kiddo and you’ll learn all sort of useful info. Here it is 9.50am already and I’ve
given two vital, need to know information.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seeing as today and tomorrow are a bank holidays, I’ll not burden you
with any more simply cos you can’t bank them until Tuesday, I’m sure you have
enough to concern you caring for all this thick heads after last night’s booze.
So, I’ll leave it there for today.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today’s photo … </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #515152; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Old age is when your former
classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don't recognize you.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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