Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Muppets, visitors and the elderly



6 February 2013

That's the first of our visitors for today done with.  Our new sofa is due next Tuesday so the old one has gone off to the British Heart Foundation shop in Dorktown town centre - where we got it from.  Our next set of visitors are the workers to fit the shower doors.  At that point we will be free of them at long last.  No real plans for anything now apart from Jan going out to do some shopping.  With a bit of luck the doors will be done in time for me to go as well.  Be nice to get out for an hour or two.

The village green application for the land alongside St James church is now back in the hands of the council planning committee.  It is hoped that they will now rule in favour of the application thereby stopping the building of 300 homes on a flood risk green field site.  The problem as I see it is that the same committee didn't do their job properly and sort out the planning application within the required time frame.  The application then went through by default.  However, if the council was to get its finger out and sort out the so-called 'town plan' then that would help to prevent such silly games in the future.  But there's a problem there too.  The council want to do it all be secret committee and not allow anyone not on that committee to attend any of its meetings.   So that one has now come to grinding stop too.  So much for local democracy eh?

Council muppets are still falling out over the street lights switch off.  One lot say t'ther lot are playing politics while the other lot are saying that their opponents are not listening to the concerns of the public.  In reality I think both sets of muppets are partly right and partly wrong.  That's one of the downsides to the political party democracy we have here in the UK.  The answer is to have a one party system which is oh so dangerous for us all.  Maybe we should just accept that we will never be happy with whatever the muppets do.  Some of us will be happy with one set, other's won't be.  Ah well ... ... ...

Today's photo is of a bunch of very red berries I found at Brandon Marsh some years ago ...     

Today's funny ...

An 85-year-old man was requested by his doctor for a sperm count as part of his physical exam.  The doctor gave the man a jar and said, 'Take this jar home and bring back a semen sample tomorrow.'
The next day the 85-year-old man reappeared at the doctor's office and gave him the jar, which was as clean and empty as on the previous day.
The doctor asked what happened and the man explained, 'Well, doc, it's like this -- first I tried with my right hand, but nothing. Then I tried with my left hand, but still nothing.'
'Then I asked my wife for help. She tried with her right hand, then with her left, still nothing. She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in, then with her teeth out, still nothing.'
'We even called up Arleen, the lady next door and she tried too, first with both hands, then an armpit, and she even tried squeezin' it between her knees, but still nothing.'
The doctor was shocked!   'You asked your neighbour?'
The old man replied, 'Yep, none of us could get the jar open.'

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