11 May 2012
When we moved back into here in January 2009 we found a lot
of stuff that brother Dave had bought and hadn’t used. I mentioned some of it yesterday but we also
found several bottles of wine. Now, I
like wine, so I put a bottle of white wine in the fridge ready for the
evening. It was bloody awful! It had gone very ropey. Not willing to risk the others they went down
the drain – apart from one bottle. There
was also a bottle of Bollinger Champagne.
We looked it up on the ‘net this morning because I was thinking of
giving it away to a friend …. But then we saw the price to replace it -
£52! It’s staying where it is for now
and I will find a reason to drink it later … maybe my 65th birthday next year
will do.
Arsonists have struck again in Dorktown. This time petrol was poured over the front
door of a property in which three people were sleeping side. That door was also the only exit from the property. There could well have been a tragedy
there. The adults managed to get the
fire extinguished before the fire service arrived it does make you wonder just
what these morons are thinking about when they do this. Of course, there may be an on-going row there
I suppose but even so, setting fire to their home with them inside it is well
OTT.
Have you ever noticed that when someone dies people stand up
and say how good they were, how popular and clever and caring and so on. When I hear all this I often wonder just how
true these comments are. The dead person
may have been a vicious thieving thug but instead of saying so they say he was
kind hearted and popular – why? It’s
like some years ago when a 16 year old lad was killed in a nightclub in
Hinckley. All the ‘good boy’ comments
came out as usual but no-one asked the main question that should have been
asked, “What was a 16 year old doing in a nightclub at 1am in the first place?”
So what do you make the child sex ring up north then? Nine Asians have been sent down and arrests
are pending on a number of others. The
racial/religious aspect is being played down but I do remember when all this
first hit the headlines some time ago that the racial aspect was right up front
in the reporting. But let’s face it –
would these nine Asians have treated Muslim or Hindu girls in the same way? Of course not! Like it or not, there was a racial aspect to
it all. I wonder just how long it has
been going on though and how many young women are now living with the consequences
of it. I suppose we will never really
know we will.
When my parents bought this house Jan and I now live in 43
years ago, there was hardly any immigrant families living in the street. The first one we became aware of was when Mr Husain
moved in next door to us. Over those 43
years there has never been even a whisper of any trouble between then and
anyone else in the street. We are friends
with another Asian family at the bottom of the street. Raj asked me about the camera round my neck
one day as I went past. From there our friendship
has grown, I even got invited to his son’s wedding last year – and very good it
was too. So it is with all the Asians
here in our street. This makes what
happened up north so sad and shocking. It
tarnishes all Asians when something this happens. Sad really … … …
Today’s photo was taken in 2003 using a Fuji 2800 zoom
camera …
rather a good shot this one.
This on a real goody …
Victoria Beckham and
her driver were cruising along a country road one evening when a cow ran in
front of the car. The driver tried to avoid it but couldn't - the cow was
killed. Posh told her driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the
owners what happened.
About an hour later, the driver staggered back to the car
with his clothes in disarray. He was holding a bottle of wine in one hand, a
cigar in the other and smiling happily.
"What happened?" asked Posh . "Well,"
the driver replied, "the farmer gave me the wine, his wife gave me the
cigar, and their beautiful daughter made mad passionate love to me."
"My goodness, what did you tell them?" asked Posh.
The driver replied: "I just said that I'm Victoria Beckham's
driver, and I just killed the cow."
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