Kiles photos, The Hussy and mamby pamby judges!

29 March 2013

What can I say?  The old saying about pictures and come to mind.  Here's what I mean ... 

All of these photos were taken by Kile at the Stratford Butterfly House using  my Nikon Coolpix 5100.  He's never used a camera before so we are pretty pleased and impressed by what he has produced.  All I have done here is to crop and resize them.

The Hussy is on the front page of News again.  Noro virus has struck again and all visiting has been banned.  Like all hospitals now everyone entering is expected to use the alcohol hand gel and again as they leave.  That seems fine to me but I wonder if they thought it through properly?  What I mean is, we don't walk on our hands do we?  No, we walk on our feet; and what happens if at sometime during the day we have walked in some kind of muck and not noticed it at the time?  Anything still on our shoes will be walked into the hospital - and who knows what can be taken in that way!  

We've just seen a pair of siskin on our niger feeders.  That's a nice spot for us seeing as we can't remember when we last saw them.  Goldcreast and blackcap have also been good ticks for us this year too.  Mind you, we are well down on year list this year, mainly because have only had the one birding trip.  Hopefully we will a couple more in later in the year.

The Tribune, our local free paper has arrived and the front page story is about a sexual predator who has been sent down for just years.  There is a lot of anger over this seeing the man himself had been abusing boys and girls aged 6 to 16 over a 20 year period.  What is more upsetting is that he will likely only spend 9 months in jail!  Just what are these judges thinking of?  Why can't they show some back bone and deal with these perverts properly?  Just how long do we have to put up with such light sentences being handed down to these nasty, perverted men?

Straight to a funny seeing as I've posted Kile's shot today ... and it happens to be topical too ...

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.
The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"
The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead.   I just can't take that chance."