18 June 2013
Picking up
the new car went through without any hassle, thankfully; so we ended up going
over to Brum for a few hours. With our
earlier Doblo we managed to get both our scooters into the boot without
problems; not so yesterday. We did
manage it after messing about with it for time.
We then decided that for normal use we would drop the rear seats and put
the scooters in length-ways instead of across the boot.
When I
ordered the car Jan was in hospital so she couldn't be put onto the insurance. That disappointed her a little and she was
champing at the bit to get have a drive.
Well, she can now since I've added her to it this morning.
Regular
readers will know that normally go through the Dorktown News for items that might be of interest or that I might
have something to say about. This
morning's News has a bloomin great
error on the front page - how this one got through I don't know! The story is about a defence firm opening a
factory in the town. The headline for
the story reads, "Defence firm has exapnded." I'm hoping you can see the error - and no,
it's not one of my typos! It's a tad
strange that when I write something myself I don't see all my errors, that's my
dyslexia kicking in. So why is it that I
can see so many errors from other writers?
Apparently all writers have a tendency to miss their own errors, hence
the need for editors and the excellent work done on my books by me old mate
Bill Howe. I can rely on Bill to be 100%
honest as he works his way through them for me.
Anyway, back the News ...
The defence
firm concerned is Lockheed Martin UK and they are opening a factory at the MIRA
(Motor Industry Research Association), out on the A5 east of town. However, the spelling mistake is not the only
one on the front page. The trailer story
on the front page goes on to say that the full story is on page 3 - opps, it's
not there, it's on page 5. It makes me
feel a bit better about my errors now ;-)))
The thing is about this story, they are making a big fuss about the
Lockheed move, after all, new jobs in the area are always good news. But
such a fuss over just 30 new jobs?
Hardly makes riveting reading does it.
Well, the
weather is nice an sunny right now and tomorrow is supposed to be the real
start of summer. That's OK, I got
sunburnt in Weymouth a couple of weeks ago.
But as usual the kids are heading for the cool waters of the canal and
disused quarries in the area. There are
few such quarries around here and all are dangerous places to go swimming
in. So the News is making its normal
point of warning off would be swimmers not to go near them. It's not just swimmers though who are trespassing
at the sites; theft, wildlife watching and rock climbing are also given for
being there. But kids are kids, and no
matter what anyone says, they will continue to trespass. I'm not saying that the warnings shouldn't be
given, of course they should but don't be surprised when they are ignored.
I have a
photo of one such quarry that could be used for rock climbing. A few years ago I got interested in geology
and began an OU course on it; the result was a number of photos taken before
the course started ...
as you can see, it's a good rock climbing site.
Enough loo
jokes for now - back to my normal web source ...
Spent £40 on eBay last week for a p*n*s
enlarger. Just opened it and some sod's sent me a magnifying glass!
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