Noise, night teorros and why?

8 July 2013

Not a good night last night; we were woken at 0210hrs by shouting and bumping and banging in the flat above us.  We know the man in there and get on OK with him, but it wasn't him this morning.  Jan ended up calling the cops over it.  Even so, Jan was really shaken by it.  Years ago someone walked into our home in Bed'th and in his rush to get out he knocked Jan over and she got hurt by it.  Last night caused flash-backs for her and that makes it all the worse really.

Mark is a nice enough chap but he suffers quite badly with stress and depression.  When it strikes he tends to spend a lot of time at his parent's home which means the flat is not being lived in.  Just lately there has been a succession of different people living there.  As much as we like Mark we do feel uneasy with some of these people.  The guy opposite us and the young lass above him are also quite vulnerable; because of this and us feeling nervous we have reported it to the council.  They gave us some incident reporting sheets, or diary sheets as they call them.  This incident has now been put down on there.

The News this morning has a report on a court case over the death of a young man on the A444 Bed'th bypass.  It seems that the police have done a lot of investigating of the incident and have come to the conclusion that the driver of the car who struck the young man wouldn't have any chance of see him and taking avoiding actions before he hit the man.  What he should have done of course was to have remained on the scene and phone the police and ambulance.  Instead he drove off and that makes it a hit and run, and that is what he has been charged with.  But I'm puzzled ... this incident happened at around 4am.  So what the heck was the young man doing walking along an unlit major road at that time in the morning?  And come to think of it, what was the driver doing out at that time too?

The GP phoned as expected this morning, well, nearly, she was around 15 minutes late actually.  I'll let her off that - generous of me eh ;-)))  All my meds are now renewed for another three months and I've to see the diabetic nurse in October.  I shall arrange that early in that month seeing as we are off to Blackpool for my birthday mid way through. 

Nice and sunny again today so we are going to have a ride out to Bradgate Park to get some landscape photos.  Neither of us have done many of them, mainly because of access problems.  Bradgate though, has a number of entrances and one of them takes you to the top part of the park near to Old Johns Tower.  There are some really nice scenes from there and that's why we are going.

We have of course done a few landscapes/seascapes.  Here's one ... 

I got this at Ballycastle in Antrim a couple of years ago.

And now for today's funny ...

An Arab Sheik was admitted to St Vincents Hospital for heart surgery, but prior to the surgery, the doctors needed to store blood in case the need arose.  As the gentleman had a rare type of blood, it couldn't be found locally, so, the call went out to all the states.
Finally a Scot was located who had a similar blood type. The Scot willingly donated his blood for the Arab.
After the surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman as appreciation for giving his blood, a new BMW, diamonds & US dollars.
A couple of days later, once again, the Arab had to go through corrective surgery. His doctor telephoned the Scotsman who was more than happy to donate his blood again.
After the second surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman a thank-you card ... and a jar of candies.
The Scotsman was shocked that the Arab this time did not reciprocate his kind gesture as he had anticipated. He phoned the Arab and asked him: "I thought you would be generous again, and that you would give me a BMW, diamonds and money... but this time you only gave me a thank-you card and a jar of candies!".
To this the Arab replied: "Aye, but I now have Scottish blood in my veins!"