No workers. missing part and last night's telly

29 January 2013

Opps - our paper girl has cocked up again and delivered us a Maily Dail as well the normal Dorktown News.  Ah well, I don't mind getting one for nowt.  But it does remind me of the time when I was driving for Interlink and saw a UPS sign had been altered to read 'COCK-UPS'  Well, I thought it was funny ;-)))

Our happy band of workers haven't shown up yet today.  The guy who has been in here for the last few day's finished around 5pm yesterday and has done as much as he can.  The major stumbling block right now is that a pump that is vital to the drainage of the shower has gone missing.  It was signed for by someone called Laura last Thursday evening.  I was out last Thursday evening having a curry at the Felix Holt in the town centre.  Jan went out last night to see if she could find out where Laura lived.  No one knows a Laura.  I hope they get their fingers and get it sorted sooner rather than later!

An interesting set of programmes on telly last night.  First up was Welch Railways.  I'm not really all that interested in trains as such but this show telling the story of a narrow gauge railway being rebuilt between Porth Maddock and Carnarvon struck a cord.  I wouldn't mind a trip on that one, likewise the one that goes up Snowdon.  As per normal there is the usual objects to it being done at all.  Surely it has to bring in more tourist to the area, especially the train enthusiasts. 

Next up was Despatches on C4; it highlighted the rise in shoplifting from charity shops.  My first thought was, "Why not?  It's rising on high streets across the country so why would charity shops be left alone?"  There is a growing number of people stealing items left outside properties for charity collection and now its hitting the shops themselves.  A reformed thief gave then pointers how to increase their security.  But the top and bottom of it is that where there are items on open display in shops there will be people who steal them if for no other reasons than they can, not matter what the shop.  If you think about though, charity shops are a fairly easy target aren't they?  They are staff mainly by volunteers have little or no CCTV cameras.  No matter what cause they are set up for it is still a pretty low act to steal from them - no matter how low their income is!

Panorama was its normal first class show.  Last night they looked at the scheme to get disabled back into work.  A couple of clients were filmed and in one instances there was a man with depression who was really fighting hard to keep himself under control as he was questioned by the reporter.  It made me wonder if he was pushed as hard as that when meeting his 'advisor' (I use that term very loosely indeed), and he wasn't able to control it, would he be charged with assault if he decked the person interviewing him?  It was clear that he was not suitable for the program he had been put on but that is down to the examination that started it all off. 

The whole program is a sham!  There is a lot of money to be made by get a disabled person back into work but even if the client is doing all they can to get there, if it's costing more to get that person into work than the company will make in doing so, they won't be trying all that much.  They 'parked' as it's termed and left pretty much alone with just the odd phone call so the provider can still claim some money for on-going contact.  It all seems to me to be a typical Tory party money making scheme for people who don't really need it anyway.

Let's find a photo then ...

ah yes, this one is of a Bewick's swan that I got in late May early June a few years ago at Hornsea Mere.  Locals told us that it had been injured at some time while it was wintering in the area and hadn't flown off when the time came.  No idea what happened to after that.

Funny time ...

A respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, ‘I would like to buy some cyanide.'
The pharmacist asked, 'Why in the world do you need cyanide?'
The lady replied, 'I need it to poison my husband.'
The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he exclaimed, 'Lord have mercy! I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband. That's against the law! I'll lose my license! They’ll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!'
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, 'Well now, that's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription.'