Jan getting better, a bad joke rebounds and TB in cattle

29 March

The situation with Jan just keeps on getting better and better. Test have shown that the fit she is had the other night is not a reappearance of the epilepsy she once suffered from. She does have a urine infection which may have caused it. It seems that the only thing that is keeping her in there at the moment is the need for a walking frame. She can't get one until Monday so hopefully she will be home soon after that.

I'm sure that if you watched all the reality cop and fire service progs on telly you will have seen that there is a lot of banter and fooling around going on between colleagues. Well, there was an inter-service charity boxing match held in Leamington  where it all went a bit too far. A fire fighter entered the ring carrying a pig's head and a sign that read' RIP my last opponent'. Things got a bit heated and the fire fighter lost the bout on points very badly. As I said, things didn't work out for him. As for boxing itself, well, I'll leave you to make your own judgements on that!

Cattle farmers are having a rough time of it these days due to bovine TB. The badger is blamed for a lot it now. But I'm not so sure ... Some time ago I watched the start of one of Andrew Marr's programmes about the history of mankind. One item that stuck in my mind was that he said that humans passed TB onto their cattle. If that is right then perhaps the cattle spread it to the badger and now the cycle is set up to continue.

I thought about this when I heard the story of the cats passing TB onto their owners. That should be red flag in my opinion. We have little idea as to what can and can't be passed from species to species do we. Not so long ago there was panic over wild birds spreading bird flu; at the end of WW1 it was Spanish Flu that killed more men than enemy action. The last foot and mouth outbreak was cause by, if memory serves, animals being feed from infected feed from abroad. And of course don't forget Anthrax, a killer for just about all animals, including us humans.     

Today's photo is part of Coventry Precinct ...

And the Sage has spoken again ...

 Husband takes the wife to a dance club, were there's a guy on the dance floor going crazy - break dancing, moon-walking, back flips, the works.
His wife turns to her hubby and says: “See that guy, 25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him down.”
Hubby says: “Looks like he's still celebrating!"