More rain, the peace divi and I'm glad my name isn't Little Johnnie

3 March

Monday morning dawned bright and sunny; now at 2.50 it's cloudy and will soon be raining yet again. Good job really seeing as we haven't had much so far this year!

A few days ago I was ranting on about the so called 'peace dividend' and how I thought that the problem of Ukraine might be a threat that would make the dividend look more like a folly. Today's News At One was saying that Russia has already claimed the Crimea. What will Daft Dave do when they go for East for Ukraine as seems likely? Sit there threatening sanctions I suppose. Sanctions haven't proved all that useful when used against 3rd World countries so I doubt they will do much good against Russia. And don't forget folks, Russia is now a whole new country now, not broken, chocked leader of the Soviet Union days.

Haggis Hague is claiming that the current problem in Ukraine is the biggest crisis to hit Europe in the 21st Century - really? How? Ukraine is not part of Europe, and Russia is bigger than Europe anyway with part of it the Far East. And, come on, we are 14 years into the 21st Century so such claims are a bit OTT don't you think? You certainly can't claim the Euro problem to be a European crisis can you, after all, it only effected a number of states not all of them. And Britain wasn't effected at all.

Britain had a large number of troops in West Germany, the BAOR. This has been cut down by thousands now but one of the main infantry troop carriers at that time was the 432 Armed Personnel Carrier. At some time they all broke down and it was another version of the 432 that revered them ...

I got this shot a few years ago at military vehicle show at Keble Airfield.

The Sage has spoken ...

Little Johnny watched his daddy's car pass by the school playground and go into the woods. Curious, he followed the car and saw Daddy and Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace.
Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could hardly contain himself as he ran home and started to tell his mother. 'Mummy, I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, and then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane...'
At this point Mummy cut him off and said, 'Johnny, this is such an interesting story, lets save the rest of it for supper time. I want to see the look on Daddy's face when you tell it tonight.'
At the dinner table that evening, Mummy asked Little Johnny to tell his story. Johnny started his story, 'I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy started doing the same thing that Mummy and Uncle Bill used to do when Daddy was away on the oil rigs.'
Mummy fainted!
Moral:
Sometimes you need to just shut up and listen to the whole story before you interrupt!