Getting home, staying at home and shouldn't have left it!!!

19 January 2013

Another worry has disappeared.  I have been worried about Jan driving home at night from Cairnryan on Wednesday night.  So she has managed to get her sailing time changed to a later time and has booked in to the same hotel she stopped in on the way outward leg.  Now she will do the drive in daylight.  We both feel a lot happier about that!

I've been wondering about taking a ride into town, just to get me out really seeing as I don't actually need anything.  But the snow is fairly thick around here and there a few smaller inclines the scooter might struggle with if there is ice on the pavements.  Besides which, it's cold out there and riding on a scooter is even colder - so maybe not eh?

A British man is killed at a gas production site in Algeria.  I am amazed that so many people are willing to go and work in these places knowing the risk they may face.  Perhaps it's the wage being offered; I don't know but deserve every penny of it!  But have you given any thought as to who the militants who make such jobs so risky, are and what it is they want?  Basically they are Muslims of one flavour or another.  What they want depends mainly on the leader of any particular group really.  The leader of those in Algeria who attacked the gas plant there seems to want more money really.  He has a record of taking hostages and getting a ransom for them. 

However, he and many others would claim a higher reason.  They would claim to be doing Allah's will.  What is Allah's will?  Well, again that depends on who you listen to.  Over all it's pretty much to take the world back to the 7th and 8th Century and to apply Islamic Law to the whole world.  Such large amounts of ransom money are supposed to help bring their aims to fruition quicker.  But I wonder ... in the 7th and 8th centuries there was no electricity; no motor vehicles; no firearms; if they are so sure that times were better back then, why are they using modern technology to try to gain their aims?  NOPE!!!  Not having their 'higher reason'.  They are in it simply for power and money!

Here in the UK, we have a honours system but there are some honours which the basic man in street can only ever dream about simply because the numbers of holders is very limited.  Getting such an honour is like 'dead man's shoes'; standing in line waiting for one of the current holders to pop his clogs.  One such honour is the Order of the Garter, founded on this day in 1348 by Edward III.  Now don't feel so much better knowing that ;-)))

Photo time ... Yesterday I sorted out the latest set of photos from me A77.  Here's one of a goldfinch on our feeders ...

A short funny today ...

An elderly man goes into a brothel and tells the madam he would like a young girl for the night. Surprised, she looks at the ancient man and asks how old he is.  'I'm 90 years old,' he says.
'90!' replies the woman.. 'Don't you realize you've had it?'
'Oh, sorry,' says the old man. 'How much do I owe you?'