Sun shine, shower and a liar!

5 February 2013

This is silly ... we long for sunshine but when it does shine we pull our curtains to because it's shinning straight into our eyes for a couple of hours.  We're never satisfied are we?

After yesterday's disappointment in Jan not getting her operation date, this morning we had a phone call telling her the op is now due to be done next Thursday.  It's major surgery too and she is not looking forward to it but at the same time she pleased that it is being done quickly.  At least then she will have plenty of recovery time ready for going to Spring Harvest in April.

The shower is now working fully.  There are two doors that need to be fitted but the ones they had were too big and new ones have been ordered.  They should be here today sometime and then and can be fitted whenever they get the chance.  But the shower works!  That means that we were both able to shower in our own shower rather than walking off down to the complex to get one.  The bathroom looks quite good now with much more room in it without the bath getting in the way.

The News has the first story of a burglary being blamed on the street lights being switched off.  There's a photo of the house holder with a large chunk of rock he claims was used to get in to the property.  I suspect that it will be the first of many such reports.  The Labour Party is promising that if they win the county council elections they will reverse the Tory cuts on street lighting.  Of course, what they don't say is where they will make the needed cuts to try to balance the cuts.  That's politicians for you - you can't trust any of them!

Muppet Person Hume is yet another prime example of just how far a politician will go to lie in covering his own backside.  If he can lie as he has over the points issue, just how can anyone trust him when it comes anything else.  And how can that new partner of his feel safe from his lies?  Someone once said that lies live forever.  That very young girl had wisdom beyond her years to come out with that one. 

Another brave young girls is lying in a hospital bed in Birmingham after yet another operation.  Malala wants an education and defied the Taliban to get one.  She is still defying them now and that could well make her an even bigger target when she finally goes home.  Her courage should shame the Taliban but they will not feel shame - only hatred!  No wonder she is likely to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.           

I have a foodie photo for you today ... 

a zoo keeper feeding penguins or seals - can't remember which zoo though.

Funny time ...

Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob's arm and listens intently to his every word.  His buddies at the club are all aghast.  At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, 'Bob, how'd you get the trophy girlfriend?'
Bob replies, 'Girlfriend?  She's my wife!'
They are knocked over, but continue to ask.  'So, how'd you persuade her to marry you?'
'I lied about my age', Bob replies.  'What, did you tell her you were only 50?'
Bob smiles and says,  'No, I told her I was 90.'