Haw Haw Haw!

It's the end of November and the weather is telling it it is no longer a mild autumn. We're heading rapidly in for winter and a bank of fog has landed at the same time as the chiller temperatures creating the Hawfrost. This leads to beautiful sites like the included spider's web. Not putting away the rotary clothes line does pay off.
I woould think that a large proportion of Britain has had a dose of fog or is having a dose of it. On tele is a live football between Wolves and Birmingham and there's obvious fog at Molineux tho' it's not impeding the match.
Oh and BC are ahead as i type.






On a sadder note:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45252000/jpg/_45252181_hotel_466.jpg

Mumbai came under attack by terrorists. Terrorists = people who create fear and terror in others. Noteably in large proportions. They took hostages at the Taj Mahal Hotel in the city and fired upon people at a jewish centre. 6 were killed. Another hotel, the Oberoi, also came under attack.
Roughly, 200 people have been killed in this single attack and, about, 300 injured
But India has had a bad year

BOMB ATTACKS IN INDIA IN 2008

30 October: Explosions kill at least 64 in north-eastern Assam

30 September: Blasts in western India kill at least seven

27 September: Bomb blasts kills one in Delhi

13 September: Five bomb blasts kill 18 in Delhi

26 July: At least 22 small bombs kill 49 in Ahmedabad

25 July: Seven bombs go off in Bangalore killing two people

13 May: Seven bombs hit markets and crowded streets in Jaipur killing 63

The Deccan Mujahideen, a previously unheard of group, have claimed responsibility.
Responsility? pah! makes you wanna laugh... haw haw haw!.... how can you be responsible and carry out such an abhorrent act?
Blame religion!... Blame religion?... bollocks! religion has naff all to do with it. These are insane power-hungry ignorants with a so-called cause who come up with that kind of bullshit.
They know nothing about responsibility.
It's, comparitively, easy to take a life. Try bloody saving one for a change.
Try sitting down and talking properly. Not shouting like little school children (three cheers to the House of Commons... NOT)
The unbelievable selfishness of the most negative variety of these people is boundless.
No one is perfect but living an essentially good life you ain't gonna go too far wrong.
Karma will step in in the event that you really cock up. Of course it doesn't always step in in this life so the schadenfreuder bird in me can't laugh at what goes around comes around. Damnit! >:¬/


That'll do for now
I am feeling hungry and imagining streaks of bacon awaiting my consumption. Trouble is, i have no bacon in the house.
I shall have to rethink my luncheon strategy

Too many Es are bad for you

I recently attended the christening of a friend's son.
Someone made a very nice cake for him......
Hmmmm! been a long time since i was in school but.....!

Then we have the speed limit.....i must remember not to walk so fast at 00.20 on a star and moonlit November night.

Spot which part of the UK this might be... haha!



Nothing to report otherwise. i wont say that nothing has happened it's just that some things needs to be pushed to the back of the agenda. Maye, even, not used at all.
We'll see :0)

So... something i've already been fortunate to see and will be seeing again in June of next year is as follows.
Jeff Wayne! diolch yn fawr!

Ten years short....

... of a century since the guns of the Great War fell silent.
On the 11th Hour of the 11th day of the 11th month it was decided that peace would fall across Europe.
Never mind that both sides actually threw soldiers in to battle, fire round after round right up until that time.
The commanders didn't see fit to think "Hey! after 4 years of blood-letting we now have a fixed time how about we dont give the order to go over the top. Perhaps we can save just a few extra souls in this insane action." But no!

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7696021.stm

The respected American author Joseph E Persico has calculated a shocking figure that the final day of WWI would produce nearly 11,000 casualties, more than those killed, wounded or missing on D-Day, when Allied forces landed en masse on the shores of occupied France almost 27 years later.

The treaty was signed a few hours before 11.00 in a railway carriage near Paris.

The french were, apparently, so ashamed that a soldier of their's died on the last day that they marked his headstone as his being KIA on the 10th.
Sadly, there is little doubt that men died even after the official time for the Armistice and even after the 11th.

- the war to end all wars-
sadly.... not so!

B.O. goes to The White House

Barack and Michelle hug

A new era in United States history is dawning.
Barack Obama has been elected to become the next President of the USA.
Thank goodness. Sense has prevailed in a country which has seen little over the previous 8 years.
To vote in Gee Dubya once was a pretty crazy notion but to repeat the ludicrous process 4 years later.... for sure there is NO god.
Thankfully, there is a goddess somewhere tho ;0) and she has smiled upon not only the American people but the people of planet Earth.
Whether or not we destroy Man's ability to live on the planet Nature will take care of herself but with Obama in office in the world's most powerful democratic country Mankind does have a chance.
"Somehere somewhere in the spirit of man" (jeff wayne The War of the Worlds)
I really don't know a massive amount about this man but i have a good feeling about him. Some say that you can't live on gut-instinct. I say bollocks. Just a feeling ya know :0)
I also, uncomfortably, have a sad and underlying fear.
That dear man and his wonderful family are now targets in a way that they weren't before and there are alot of people who would have him dead rather than a ::whispers....:: black man in the White House. To some it doesn't bear thinking about. And, in that group, not one is muslim. These people have no love or tolerance beyond a narrow band of misguided loyalty to those who think - i use the term lightly - as they do. They are those who applaud the crazed thinkings of the K.K.K. and other such white supremiscist groups.
Until then i cheer and applaud the arrival of Senator Barack Obama as he sits in the cyber ante-room outside the beckoning Oval office.
January can not come quickly enough.

I wish him well. I say Llongyfarchiadau and Pob Lwc.
It was 5th November yesterday and us crazy people in britain will keep lobbing fireworks up in to the sky in memory of a wee incident back in 1605 when a bunch of traitors tried to blow up Parliament whilst the King (jamesI) was in attendance.
However, i just wanted to pop up this pic as a wee celebration for Obama, Biden, the Democratic Party of the USA and all americans who saw fit to hit the button by the right name

Hiya Ween

But the children don't like it when you ask them trick or treat upon opeing the door to them.
Hmmm! strange creatures these little people!!!

Night Night Everyone!
Sweet Dreams!

Quit Inhaling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7685797.stm
takes you to the update on the family of six from north Wales who were killed following a collision with a lorry on the M6 a few days ago.
So, it's bloody obvious that death on the roads is still very much a part of british life. Hey! it's an element that keeps me in a job tho' i'm sure many people do not wish to meet medics of any kind following such a destructive event in their lives.
Quit inhaling?... see i've already talked about the need for other motorists to clear a path for those running on blue lights but there's another group of motorists who are not in front of an ambulance but wish they were. The ambulance has a sick lad/ladette/gent/lady etc on board. The roads are not the smoothest of surfaces in the world and the vehicles are not the best sprung. Answer? drive with care. which may mean travelling at 40mph out in a 60mph national speed limit area.
Having you sucking on my motor's tailpipe is not conducive to my concentrating on what is happening around the roads ahead of me.
This must include the gent who tailgated me for approximately 15miles last night despite having a minimum of 4 safe overtaking opportunities to pass us.
The reason he got passed? despite an unwell octogenarian on board i pulled over. Did he say ta very much? did he bollocks!
Whatever the vehicle in front tailgating is FUCKING dangerous. Plumbers do not have automatic rights-of-way over any other vehicle so think before you endanger other peoples lives. In fact, THINK and do NOT ever put other peoples lives in danger.

Basic courtesy. I'm sure the United Kingdom would be in a far better position, financially or otherwise, if people could just learn to be more courteous to others.

something to think about
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMkpRNCBDI&NR=1

in Concert

Going back to 30th Sept.08
Katie, Fo and I headed to Cardiff on tuesday afternoon (appropriate eh?) to see the Moodies. My last trip down had been in December 07 to se Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds and it had been just Fo and me.
The Moodies were at St David's Hall http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/english/index.asp
A venue i'd wanted to see something at since it was built.

They (the sound engineers) knackered the sound and balance. Shame cos the guys were singing their hearts out. They did sound great in a great hall with great acoustics but the sound guys failed them.
All the songs were fab., having said that.
The favourites and few more from further back. Most i knew and a couple I didn't.
Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White satin, Question, Driftwood, Steppin' In A Slide Zone, I'm Just A Singer (in a rock n roll band).......

Justin and John

The lighting effects were good.
The audience were appreciative.
The run home went without incident.
The hard part? - crawling from my pit to go to work the next day. Bleargh!! Graeme Edge. Another of the original line-up.

Publish Post

Thank you the Moody Blues.
You do good choons