Snow, a holiday and 'The Riot'

22 March 2013

More snow was forecast but here in Dorktown we have seen very little of it.  We are lucky in that way here abouts and tend to miss the extremes of such weather.  Of course, at 11.20am there's plenty of time for that last sentence to be proved wrong - we'll soon see ... ... ...

Kile is due here after school today.  Jan is picking him up from school and bringing him  straight around here and we are having him for as long as we like.  However, once we've cooked him I'm not sure if he will fit in the fridge and he won't keep for very long at all ;-)))  We are hoping to take to Stratford butterfly place at some time.  That should keep him happy for a while.  If the weather picks up next week we'll try to get him to the seaside for a spot of birding too.

Two days ago we were due to be returning home from a two week holiday to Western Supermare.  Because of all the problems Jan had with her stoma we had to cancel it.  This morning I have phoned them and rearranged it for 29 May.  We were disappointed in having to cancel it but now with that new date we should get some decent weather; Western can be tad cold and windy so a later date is better but if things had gone as we had first been booked for, we would have been happy enough with that.

Another cannabis farm has been busted in Dorktown, as well as an air rifle.  Two men were arrested and then released after being given a caution.  It seems to me to be a waste of resources all round.  In total 15 properties have been raided over the last six weeks as part of Operation X.  The idea of course is to rid the town of drugs.  The only drugs taken off the street were the plants they seized and I can see two men being cautioned achieving that - NOT!!!  All they will have done is to walk out of the cop shop to the nearest pub and have a pint or three while they laughed at the cops wasting their time and effort. 

A lot more about 'The Riot' was in our local free paper yesterday.  It seems that the cops got it all wrong yet again!  Two pubs involved were The Granby and the Willy White.  Both had a line of cops around the entrances and they would let anyone in or out.  Slowly they removed 2 or 3 at a time, arrested them and took them off to the cop shop around the corner.  They were all released on police bail later.  one of the partners at the Granby said that while the men were stuck in the pub they just went behind the bar and helped themselves to the bottled beers in the coolers; the beer pumps had been turned off.  They have received death threats if they handed over the CCTV tapes to the cops.  As it was the cops seized them as soon as the last of the men were removed.  They also did a forensic search of the bar areas.  The pub was able to open again at 10pm but the whole thing has cost them around £10,000.  And all because 22 grown men kick a bag of wind around field ... beggars belief!

So then, a photo ... 

a display of crocuses, about 300 yards from the riot.

And today's funny ...

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