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

The Return

There was mention previously of my struggling to remain online. It finally quit toward the end of July and it has taken until yesteday to put me back online. I have gained irregualr access via other peoples PCs but it is nice to be at home dabbing away with my own sounds, smells and visions.
I have parted company with the isp that is AOhelL and taken up with Madasafish. They need a kick up the rear n all but to a lesser degree.
All for the price of a working router.

This is my friend's cat. CAT. Tho, formally, Ripley. She is no more. She was, i think, 16 or 17 yo. She had the funniest moods with the craziest miaow. She also had the softest fur and, despite being a moody so n so, i thought she was great so i just thought i'd dedicate this post to a beautiful cat who lived life in the suburbs of south-west London.
To Cat!!

In Memory

It's a silly month.

Last year on July 5th my Grandpa celebrated 101 years of life. On the very same day one of my best mates celebrated her 49th birthday.

This year neither are with us.

My lovely Grandpa with amazing long-term memory and great sense of humour died a few days before Christmas last year. Whilst I was and am very sad he had had a good life with a lovely lady by his side.

My mate, on the other hand, was just too damn young. Her fight with cancer came to an end in the final days of August last year.

Well, this year a concert in her memory was held on 11th July at our local community centre. I don't know how money was raised but the monies will be equally split between Macmillan Nurses http://www.macmillan.org.uk/ and St Michael's Hospice near Hereford http://www.st-michaels-hospice.org.uk/

So - this was a short blogpost in memory of two great people. So different. So loved. Both touched so many people in so many different ways.

Here's To LPT

and

JJ!

Living on in the rest of us

Deadly Cargo

I am preoccupied with death on the roads but then too many people do suffer terrible injuries on the roads of the UK and a whole host of others do not live to tell the tale.
And sometimes we know who our killer is... as is shown on a safety ad. from almost 10 years ago.
http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/campaigns/seatbelts/seatbelts.htm where a rear seat passenger is not strapped in so is flung forward following a front-end impact killing the driver.

It never ceases to amaze me that people think they can save their babies in the event of a
collision with them sat on their laps.All people in a motor vehicle should be strapped in and strapped in properly. No child seat is too expensive for your child. If you can't afford one then

1. don't have a car etc
or
2. don't have children

It's quite simple really.

Other things should be suitably secured as well. Even an empty CD case on the parcel shelf can deal a nasty blow in a collision.
We're very good at making sure our box of a dozen eggs is secure since they are so obviously fragile but who gives a toss about the humans beings in transit, eh?



Whilst I am in road safety mode, the lumpy thing attached to the top of the back of your seat is not a headrest it is a head restraint. It needs to be set at the correct height for whoever is sat in that seat. This includes the rear seats where restraints are fitted!. If they are too low, par example, and another driver rear-ends the motor that you are in there is a chance of not simply suffering from whiplash but of dying due to something called HYPEREXTENSION. If not dying then possibly landing you in a wheelchair unable to feed yourself. [hyperflexion is also involved as the neck snaps forward again]

...............................One of the new breed of restraints as found on SAABs

Mobile on a mobile

In the UK if you wish to use a mobile phone whilst driving it must be of the hands-free variety. Well, you don't talk with it clamped to your ear with one hand holding it and one hand on the steering wheel.
You can be wired for sound. You can have a speaker system but do not hold it to your ear for a chat. And, you should not text whilst on the move or read an incoming text.
Now to me this seems as sensible as you can get.
Using a mobile phone removes your mind partially if not totally from your immediate environment.
Only recently - the case is ongoing - a man was killed as he ?stepped out in front of a van? whilst chatting on his mobile. Even if the investigation shows otherwise there are plenty of other cases that have proven such events. My thoughts do go out to the aforementioned chap's family and friends and those involved in the collision.
If you can not concentrate enough under your own steam then what chance you concentrating whilst driving?
This is one of my big soap box issues and my writing this now has been prompted by one of the most stupid acts i have seen concerning mobile phones. Now i have seen drivers of cars, vans, coaches (with passengers) and articulated HGVs using mobiles attached to their ears. And half of them have had a passenger perched beside them! FFS!
This latest one was a driver of a silver Ford Fiesta passing by a primary school in a 20mph zone at kicking out time. I had just moved off from having been stopped at the zebra crossing to let a family cross. His window was open, he was enjoying the sun, the company of a female passenger and a chat on his mobile!
But for further safety issues i would've taken his number plate details and passed them on to the police.

There is ONE instance when you are legally allowed to use it whilst a driver on the move. When you believe you are being followed by a potential assailant and you are informing the police whilst heading for the nearest safe place or your local open police station.
Otherwise, DO NOT DO IT! It really is not worth it. We managed perfectly well without having phones glued to our ears for decades during the existence of the the internal combustion engine.