26 September
2012
There are
some mean spirited people in Dorktown.
My old school Alderman Smith has now become the Dorktown Academy. It has a uniform policy that they insist on
applying to the current pupils no matter what happens. The thing is dear readers, not so long ago a
14 year old boy named Jordon died from cancer.
In an effort to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust, a number of
the pupils have bought and are wearing a rather nicely coloured blue wrist
band. These bands have now been outlawed
as being contrary to the school uniform policy.
It's all rather sad isn't it?
Just what lessons are there in this for the kids to learn; that sympathy,
compassion and kindness takes second place to rules? Hopefully the kids won't be put off over this
petty minded jobsworth ruling. As for
the school Principal - what a mockery of that word that is being portrayed at
the school - maybe the BBC has a few more of those lovely golden coloured Jobsworth
hats they used to give away, might like to send her one. Then the governors should make her wear it as
part her uniform!
I've just finished
the October issue of Bird Watching
that we have on subscription. It's
always a good read with lots a birdie facts and figures. But two separate articles this time round
have me a tad confused. One is of the
work of a man who has been studying guillemots on Skomer island off the Welsh
coast. After years of decline Guillemot
numbers are on the rise again. Tim
Birhead puts this down as being due to an increase in their main food, sand
ells. OK, fine; but in a later article Ray
Collier says that kittiwake numbers are on the way down - because of shortage
of - sand ells! Birhead works in South
west Wales while Collier works in the Highlands. Could there really be such huge difference in
sand ell populations within such a small area of the worlds oceans?
Yesterday I
managed to increase the Photo Finish
word count by over 4,000 words. Not by
writing anything new, just by adding an idea I had already started and thought
it might well fit. It did do. Now I have to find a way of linking it in.
So for
today's photo ...
a kittiwake!
And an easy
pick up for today's funny ...
A man is
dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the
next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve
to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes,
and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of
the air, and hands it back.
Oh my, I am so sorry, " the woman says as she pops her eye back in place.
"Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you, " she says. They enjoy
a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theatre followed by
drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his.
She listens. After paying for
everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap
and stay for breakfast. They had a wonderful, wonderful time.
The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is
amazed! ! Everything had been SO incredible! !! ! "You know, " he said, "you are
the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet? "
"No, " she replies. . . . . . "
Wait for it. .
It's coming. .
The suspense is killing you, isn't it?
She says:
"You just happened to catch my eye."
Wait for it. .
It's coming. .
The suspense is killing you, isn't it?
She says:
"You just happened to catch my eye."
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