Writing

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
-- Omar Khayyam

Thinking!

Sometimes I sit and think but today has been very hot so I am just sitting!

Ben

Yesterday the 22nd January 2009 we had to take our Ben on his final ride to the vets after a very short illness. Our companion and faithful friend for just over 14 years it felt like a final betrayal although we knew and were told it was the best thing for him.

Now the house seems empty and now looking back I realise just how much I miss him as a friend and constant companion. He repaid all my moods with a nudge of his nose, he would sit for hours waiting for a left over sausage. In later months his hearing was failing and I would find him sitting looking at the door waiting for my return when I had already slipped in unheard. The tears are still too easy to flow - our family has lost an important member who's example will be hard for a mere human to follow.

RIP Ben my good friend.
http://www.ron.blundell.btinternet.co.uk/pgtres/ben.htm

Marilyn Monroe

"Wills Neck" is a Marilyn -what is it?


& Marilyn Monroe said "My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation -- but I'm working on the foundation. "

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn

Money (credit) crisis

I know this is a basic question but where has all the money gone?

We are now in a credit crisis after a prolonged period during which our UK economy has been build on a "fart and a promise". But where has all the money gone - what secrets have the banks and world governments yet to tell us?

Bewildered!

Recession

We are about to enter a period of recession in the UK. The government seems hell bent on trying to make sure there are no losers. It will be an interesting ride with a very uncertain outcome!

MP Treated differently!!!

We now have news of a British MP abusing his trust by paying members of his family with no work actually being done - the consequences are he has been suspended for 10 days!!!!!!! What a joke!!!!!
What makes him so different from any member of the public who would be pursued to the full extent of the law.
We appear to be on a slippery slope to 3rd or 4th world status.

My message to this MP is resign now!!!!

Frogs in the pond.

Well the frogs are in the pond and there is a lot of frog spawn and this happened on the 1st Feb this year.

Long winding road

The long winding road towards the election of a new US President has started. However after deciding that a Royal Family was not for them the American voters are developing a surprising preference for "Dynasties"
Perhaps Hilaries recent success will lead her closer to perhaps establishing a "Clinton Dynasty" in line with those of "Camalot" or the Bushes?

I wish them well in their deliberations which will also rebound on the rest of the world.

Happy 2008

Monty Python or Breach of contract?

Once upon a time there was a small coastal town in SW England dependant on the holiday industry where image and small business was important. The administration of the County was divided into three tiers, from the bottom up -Town - District - County.

A bid for a unified authority was overturned by the majority of those electors who bothered to vote.
One of these authorities decided to sell off a large town car park for housing, consequently more cars use street parking. Permit parking is now being considered in residential areas due to lack of or under utalised car parks.



In order to save the contractor money most street cleaning was mechanised but of course there were many gutters that could not be cleared of dust by machine because of parked cars. Nature abhoring a vacuum moved in with grass and weeds which then competed with any Britain in Bloom competition. One resident cleaned his own gutters but was repremanted by a contractor of one of authorities as he was not trained and there was a risk under H&S law as to where the dirt was deposited.

Neglect, lack of interest, no supervision all this despite being paid!!!!

Now these authorities are planning the future use of valuable areas within the small towns boundary - this story continues.

Town & District councellors become independants but felt the need to form alliances.
Some Town Councillors confused the effective managing of a valuable public recreation ground with the sponsorship of a football club.



Gardening - no, standard of road mtce!!!!!

In the meantime residents continue pay their council taxes

Perhaps this saga is playing out in a town near you?

Defender of the Faith

The leader of the established church has spoken out today and grabbed some headlines. His chosen subject that grabbed the headlines, not urging for greater private and public morality, not urging that 3rd world issues are addressed, not that world leaders work for peace or that spiritual leaders mainly Christian and Moslem work towards a greater understanding between these and other moral & religious systems.

No the suject was the wording of the future presumed Coronation of Charles the 2nd and whether he should be know as Defender of the Faith or Faiths.

Perhaps many of the worlds problems today stem from zelots of all faiths "Defending their Faiths" as they see it!

The Northern Rock Rubble!

The financial world was deafened this week by the sound of pigeons coming home to roost as the downside of selling other peoples money was exposed. How this saga will play out in the days and weeks to come will leave none of us better off either as individuals or as a society.