Birding, late up and an injustice!

25 June 2013

Yesterday was a birding day!  Sunday was a bits n bobs day where we did a lot but achieved not much at all really ... but yesterday was a good day for both of us even if I did manage to knacker two scooter batteries.  I should have known better really; but I didn't feel up to walking a round path at Bempton Cliffs.  The path was too rough for the scooters and I managed to blow the fuse on both my batteries.  Not good at all; but we did get to see what we went there for - puffins, kittiwakes, gannets and guillemots.  Razor bills, fulmars and black guillemots would have made it even better.

After Bempton we set off for Blacktoft Sands.  It was that we have seen spoonbills twice so our hopes were up for them again; they weren't there but we still enjoyed our slow ride around there.  Altogether we listed 55 species and added 12 to our year list.  Another good day's birding but as usual we had to return to Dorktown ..  ah well.

Our doorbell going at 10am woke this morning, the posting another eBay buy for Jan.  Both of us were pretty well shattered by the time we arrived home; after being up 14 hours so a late morning was well on the cards for today.  So now it's back to normal again, and that means an early look at the News.  One of the bits I did on Sunday was to drive to Walsgrave for some shopping.  On the way over I drove past two guys who has set up a tent on one of the busiest road junctions into town.  It's a protest encampment; "Why?" you might ask.  Well, for the last six weeks he has been to the council asking for a house and been turned away every day.  It seems that a single man is the lowest of the low when it comes to housing. 

Both of these men are actively looking for work but no one will employ them because they don't have a fixed address; yet the council are making little if any effort to find them one.  It's not just getting work that is a problem for them.  One of them isn't allowed to see his two kids until he has a home.  As one of the said, "If I was a single woman I would have got a place straight away."  He also says that kids would have bumped up the needs ladder; being a foreigner would also have done the same.  Yet because he is a single Heterosexual English male, he's bottom of the needs ladder.  What a travesty!

I get pension credit; I also get an Army pension, so every year I get a letter from the pension credit office asking for details of my Army Pension.  Every year I send them a copy of the annual Army pension projection for the coming year.  And every year I have to send two copies of it cos they manage to lose the first copy.  The second copy is sat there ready to post - again!!!

So then, a photo ... 

A man shorting out his shopping in Coventry.

Today's funny ...

A lady walks into Harrods. She looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it.   As she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly farts.  Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little 'woopsie', and prays that a sales person was not anywhere near.
As she turns around, her worst nightmare materialises in the form of a salesman standing right behind her - Good looking as well.  Cool as a cucumber, he displays all of the qualities one would expect of a professional in a store like Harrods.
He politely greets the lady with, 'Good day, Madam. How may we help you today?'
Blushing and uncomfortable, but still hoping that the salesman somehow missed her little 'incident', she asks, 'what is the price of this lovely bracelet?'
He answers, "Madam - if you farted just looking at it - you're going to shit yourself when I tell you the price."