Hospital Window
A great note for all to read it will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.
One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
His bed was next to the room's only window.
The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.
Although the other man couldn't hearthe band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.
Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.
Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.
It faced a blank wall.
The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased room mate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'
Epilogue:
There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.
Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.
'Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present.'
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
What the Hell Is This Job?
This was in my in box, it is almost like a wind up! Just what sort of job is it?
. APPETITE FOR LIFE STRATEGY FACILITATOR (REF:1656)
Department: Education Services,
Section: Dinerth Road, Colwyn Bay
Pay scale: Soulbury Scale points 3 -6£33,346 - £36,541
Term: Fixed Term until March 2010
more information
Telephone 01492 576124 (24 hour) for an application form and job description, or e-mail jobs@conwy.gov.uk
Jason Weyman.
I am glad to see that jason weyman has been elected. Provided he does not let him self get carried away with the "old timers" and approaches the whole thing with am open mind his ward has a good chance of having a very pro active councillor. I really hope he will not accept on face value what he will be told. Question ,guestion the buggers. Well done Jason! I look forward to him joining the conservative party when they take over the council. The Conservative party and some of the Independant's will make a good job. It is just a shame they have not being given the full 4 years.
brunstrom's Unmarked Cars
Operational North Wales Police vehicles.
Parked in police headquarters Colwyn Bay.
Planning.
Lets us hope the new and indeed the old councillors waste no time in getting to grips with the tremendous amount of work to be done.
Not least in the planning department.
The planners constantly refer to the local plan of 1982, that has been in the process of being updated for some time.
Figures given to me by a reader indicate that of all the appeals made in the last 6 years, 45% were successful at appeal!
How many of the refusals not appealed against would have been successful I wonder?
How much do the appeals cost all concerned, most of the time I believe you do not get the cost of any time spent back or in the case of a business lost revenue.
Let us be patient and hope things move at a greater speed now we have a nearly new start of everything.
Monday, 19 May 2008
Holidays.
I will do a few postings about the holiday at the weekend. I have lots of things to say, but little time this week,due to having lots to catch up on. I find this so called coalition hard to believe, I know little at the moment, but my first impression is that it will be a little more than a 12 month affair, We will be travelling on a short bus,with no qualified driver! We are glad to be back,the body is home,but lord knows where the head is at the moment,due to the time difference etc. I have some very happy memories,not least two twins and their family,both were down syndrome, age 43 and the most loving carefree people you could meet. It was a pleasure to see them each day. They read the papers,swam,and were the first to be up and about if there was something going on around the hotel or beach. They were happy from morning to night.
Anything To Declare?
Had to answer a call of nature in a British airport, and what was in the toilet but a used needle box, the very one in the photo.
Is this what the world has come to?
I am so glad I am not yong in this day and age.
What next?
Every Little Helps!
We went to Tesco upon our return to stock up on supplies, if you had seen us you would think there was a famine on the way.
As big and as mighty it may be, and as much as we like to support the small shop keeper, it has to be said Tesco is about as convenient as it gets.
Whilst I was having a mooch, I saw a boy throwing food onto the floor, I thought at first it was out of date meat, until I noticed it was meat with either no label or an incorrect label attached.
I must say I thought it was terrible to see meat being treated this way.
I am the first to admit that I am a funny one, and could never be a vegetarian.
But there seemed some thing wrong with the thought of an animal being slaughtered for nothing, as in being killed and not even eaten.
That some how eases my conscience with meat, if it is killed and at least eaten, then that some how feels right.
But to end up on the floor of the local Tesco, destined for the bin is quite something else.
There must be anther way to deal with the meat, for are Tesco not banging on about being green?
Well doing something with this meat is a very good start in my way of thinking.
But in fairness I wonder what the food standards agency insists upon?
They more than likely are unable to sell meat that has not been correctly labeled.
Perhaps it would be better to put it into a basket rather than throw it on the floor!
By the way, the meat in Oz is like the meat I remember of a child hood, the steaks and lamb were some thing else, and that from me, having been brought up on the best of meat from local farms is saying some thing!
Mind you the sea food was out of this world to.
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Reflections of Oscar.
Old Oscar has spent a lot of time thinking whilst he is away, about many things, not least how lucky he has been in life, blessed with family and a few good friends.I have spent a while this afternoon looking at the Internet, one of the only days that I have, and looked back on this blog and reflected on a few comments that had been left by one particular person, and I had great joy in deleting this persons comments, I admit that maybe I should not have published them in the first place, not only for the fact it may even have given him a few votes, could not have been more than a few, for he was one of the only people to have come in behind a B N P candidate in the Conwy County. I have come to the conclusion that this person is a little sick to have been waging such vendettas against the very council he was once a member of,and I believe even resigned from, without substantiating any of the rather vicious allegations made by him self.
When I get back I shall continue to blog, but shall refrain from the intensity I blogged on the Council Candidates for a while, for they now need to re group for the common good of the County.
Oscar has no intention to declare who and what he does, I am my own person, and contrary to a couple of suggestions am not either of the 2 people who have been named as Oscar on this blog, several people have knocked on the wrong door to date.One clue you may have worked out is that I get about a bit, and spend a lot of time out of the office.
That is enough for now.
Friday, 2 May 2008
Food and Flight!
Scary, but bloody lovely helicopter trip!
Wonderful views and like watching a film, a little like going to New York for the first time, it feels surreal after seeing the photographs for so long, and then you realise you are actually here.
If you ever come here ,or have been you will hear about this restaurant.
Only one word describes it!
Wonderful!
Almost worth the journey just to eat at this restaurant!
http://www.rockpoolsydney.com
"Rockpool named in The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards
21 April 2008: Neil Perry’s Rockpool (fish) restaurant in Sydney has been named in Restaurant Magazine’s highly anticipated 2008 list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the seventh consecutive year."
Raw
Freshly shucked live oysters $4 each
Freshly shucked live Tasmanian bay scallop with black bean and chilli dressing $9 each
Tuna, Morwong and yellow Mullet sashimi with modern sashimi dressing $32
Sashimi of John Dory with cucumber, ginger jelly, soy and yuzu dressing $35
Tuna tataki w/lemon, capers and black olive oil $28
Tuna tartare with classic flavours $28
Ceviche of blue eye, avocado, chilli and lime $28
Four tastes of the sea $39
Swordfish with finger lime caviar, ginger and shallot
Live scallop with preserved lemon and harissa
Squid ink ceviche
Tuna and kimchi sandwich
Salads and other things
Ortiz "Gran Reserva" salted anchovy with tomato confit on toast $6.50 each
Thai style king prawn, squid, mussel and smoked oyster salad $36*
King prawn, green bean and cucumber salad with nuoc cham dressing $29*
Hand picked Crystal crab, avocado, chickpea and roast pepper salad with pomegranate $39
White anchovy, tomato and bread salad $22
"Our salad nicoise" $24*
Romaine, tomato, spring onion and jalapeño chilli salad $16*
Serrano ham and fig $27
Pasta
Stir fried firey octopus Korean style with saffron pappardelle $24
Grilled king prawns w/goats cheese tortellini $29*
Seared sea scallop, squid and smoked bacon with squid ink noodles $36
Clams, Iberico ham, chilli w/semolina spaghetti $29
Stir fried lobster with XO sauce and egg noodles $42
Roast pumpkin agnolotti w/burnt sage butter $25*
Hot entrees
Spicy seafood soup with prawn dumplings $26
Mussels mariniere $26
Salt and pepper calamari with tomato nam jim $39
Stir fried crab omelette $39*
Slow cooked egg, peas and mint on bruschetta $19
Seared Yellow Mullet with tomato, olive and basil $22
Pan fried or grilled with herb butter
Yellow Mullet (Coorong Lake, SA) $34
(Marine Stewardship Council approved)
Morwong (Wollongong, NSW) $36
Jewfish (Hawkesbury, NSW) $46
Blue Eye Trevalla (Browns Sea Mountain, NSW) $46
Bar Cod (Coffs Harbour, NSW) $56
Bass Groper (Browns Sea Mountain, NSW) $56
Yellowfin Tuna (Port Stephens, NSW) $48 medium rare
Whole fish
Pan fried or grilled with herb butter
Yellow Mullet (Coorong Lake, SA) $34
Deep Sea Flathead - two per serve (Storm Bay, TAS) $36
Condiments
Fresh tartare
Aioli
Tomato and mustard seed relish
Shellfish live from the tank
Lobster (TAS) 750g $135
Plain grilled • Grilled with herb butter •
Chermoula crusted • Steamed with ginger, shallot and mirin dressing
Abalone (TAS) 500g $110
Pan fried • Grilled with herb butter
Mud Crab (NT) 1000g $125
Steamed with extra virgin olive oil and lemon
• Steamed with black bean and chilli • Stir fried with XO sauce
Classic Rockpool fish dishes
Seared John Dory fillet on Indian Pastry
with tomato and cardamom sauce $48
Steamed Blue Eye fillet with shiitake mushroom broth $46
Jewfish fillet poached in garam masala and coconut milk with semolina noodles $46
Seared Snapper fillet with “elBulli” crust on roast tomato sauce $55
Seared Tuna steak with chermoula crust and Moroccan eggplant salad $48
Seafood stew w/spicy mussel and saffron broth $60
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Give em a Boot For Me!!
This may well be my last post for nigh on a month, We are off VERY soon to Ausralia.
We have used a postal vote, I only voted for one candidate, but please do not waste a chance to vote a no good'er off next Thursday.
I am going to disable the comments till further notice, partly because I am away, and partly in common with some readers find some of the comments left a little distasteful, even libelous, some have been withheld by me.
I have on occasions had to respect things told to me in confidence, friends know I would not let them down on that score, but there is plenty going on out there, that's for sure!
The blog has only ever has been my thoughts, make of them what you will, enjoy or not, you can always delete me from your computer.
I have believed with passion all I have written, and have never knowingly posted an untruth, I could have post a lot more, believe you me, but have shown a little restraint.
Please come back towards the end of next month!
Going and soon to be forgotten!
The leading authority on the state of the A55, Glyn Davies is soon to be off, and not a second too soon.
I say expert, for he lives some 20 miles down the A55, out of Conwy county.
He has taken all of us for a ride for long enough.
He is, soon to be was, the councillor for Llandrillo- yn- Rhos, and also the cabinet member for highways on Conwy Council.
The only problem being is, he has been living on Angelsey for some 2 years, yet drawing some £28,000 per year from the public purse.
It astounds many people that he had the brass neck to do so, yet were it not for the support of GONEaway, he would not have done so.
Says a lot about the quality of councillor we have suffered though does it not?
If GONEaway could not find a councillor who at least lived in the county to sit in his cabinet, the other must have been pretty dire!
If only Plaid or the Conservatives had put up a candidate against GONEaway,but I believe that is a very different story.
Cllrs Tobbin and Vaughan.
Good old Tony and Joanie will no doubt have been around the houses of Conwy soliciting the votes.
I only hope they have been taken to task on some of the goings or rather the lack of goings on.
Take the entrance to the beautiful quay, still closed after all these months, and still not re laid, despite the thousands of pounds it has cost to date.
Now this is where I got it all wrong years ago, I thought that being a councillor meant you could seek a fast track restitution to a legitimate problem in your ward.
Forgive me for thinking that if the only 2 councilors on that ward were even on the Cabinet, and on very good terms with the leader, who must pass this closed road several times a week, things would be sorted PDQ,( pretty dam quick), but how wrong was I?
Conwy has in common with other towns suffered greatly the last few years, not least due to the same councilors granting permission left right and centre at the behest of the superstores of this world, yet still they can not get to grips with what looks like a simple task of laying the right cobbles down over a relatively short area.
Only it is so sad, it would make you laugh.
Perhaps a boat trip down the river is called for these 2 incumbents know as the on the take councillorsVaughan and Tobbin.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
The Wooden Spoon Goes to;
The man even his fellow Conservative can not even stand to be seen and associated with, is the invisible man known as David Hill.
Double printing for the local Conservatives, they have each had to have separate election address's!
In all of his 4 years he I think has been heard of once, the man who was quite happy to allegedly see the libraries close. Then had a very public spat with Dennis Tew, his fellow Conservative in the ward.
It was so bad him and Tew cast their zimmer frames aside and very nearly had a duel of the walking sticks, yes folks, it's the the man who does the Stevie Wonder impressions at the local Conservative agm's
Say good bye folks, he's on his way.
Trouble is, nobody will notice!
It's all down Hill for Hill from here!
Boom Boom!!!
Oscar's Kitchen Cabinet
rosa said...
Who if you could vote for any councillor would you vote for?
Say 3 votes were allowed
22 April 2008 19:13
I would hypothetically in my little ideal world vote for :
Bob Squire for leader , Mike Priestley for a new post of deputy leader with him continuing as head of environment, Philip Evans in charge of finance, Goronwy would be in there, not as council leader but in the cabinet, due to the vast knowledge he should now have in knowing how councils run.
I am sure there are a few other good ones, but do not know who they are!
There can not be many good ones, other wise why would GONEaway have put Glyn Davies in the Cabinet when he lives on Anglesey?
I personally would not give any party a majority in the cabinet, It needs a very strong Leader, I would put my money on Bob Squire
Policing Issues.
"Labour also pledges to increase neighbourhood policing teams to deal with problem areas and crime hot spots".
What they do not do is put their money where their mouth is. We have had our police tax precept put up, we have councillors promise to put more police on the streets, yet we have a chief such as ours and a police authority that appears to have everything , except authority when it comes to telling Brunstrom to actually put more highly visible police onto our streets.
How can the wanna be councillors be allowed to make any commitment what so ever about policing, they have not a cat in hells chance of delivering.
Read the following, to see the latest posting from the deputy Chief Constable, does it reassure you in any way?
It most certainly does not reassure me, anything but.
PCSO's do not even have the power of arrest, Llandudno even had a copper that failed as a copper, so they put him on the streets as a PCSO, that came from his very mouth, when he was talking out one evening, now he has allegedly been suspended, and we may never see him in his little blue hat again!
When this election is over , we need Gutto to cast his shackles to one side and come out fighting for the Conservatives in the Aberconwy constituency.
Gutto Bebb has what it takes to get on with a very important job.
Fight Gutu, the great fight with all your might!
Numberjacks
North Wales Police is currently struggling to recruit enough analysts of the right calibre to meet its operational demands. Before the dawn chorus of "You don't need more analysts, wot u need is more bobbies on the beat" chirps in, let me invite you to consider that, before the aforementioned bobby hits the street, it's best if someone can answer the following questions on his / her behalf:
Why?
Where?
When?
Doing What?
Aimless patrol just doesn't cut it any longer; and now we've got our battalion of PCSOs, making sure activity is properly directed is even more important. The analysts we've got in the force are excellent; we just haven't got enough. We require them in just about every aspect of our work, from financial investigation to road safety. Unfortunately, the labour market is simply not supplying a sufficient number of capable and qualified individuals to meet the need. Somebody taking the job who is not quite up to the mark will soon find the going tough - a poor analyst is worse than none at all. We've also tried to develop individuals into the role, with limited success. The problem we encounter, time and time again, is that aspirants lack the basic number skills to deliver a convincing product. It's clear that the fundamentals have not been part of the general education process and that whatever relevant degree followed has failed to address the shortfall.
The numeracy gap is not peculiar to North Wales Police; colleagues in other forces and organisations bemoan a similar situation. In fact the problem is much wider and much more acute. Mathematical competence is key to anyone wishing to embark on a decent career in IT, finance and just about any other discipline crucial to a successful knowledge economy. Most Western nations are falling short in producing enough home grown talent to satisfy employers' needs. The result is that universities all across the UK and US are packed with Asian maths and science undergraduates and that Silicon Valleys everywhere are full of talented Indian programmers. Or could it be that, all along, the really clever number crunchers have been working in the back offices of high street mortgage lenders.
Is that a policeman talking?
Bring back David Owen out of retiremnet, he would sort this useless academic coppers out!
Little Joke.
An Israeli doctor said, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take
A kidney out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work
In six weeks.'
A German doctor said, 'That's nothing! In Germany, we can take a lung out of
One person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.'
A Russian doctor said, 'In my country medicine is so advanced, we can take
Half a heart from one person, put it in another, and have them both looking
For work in two weeks.'
The English doctor, not to be outdone, said 'Hah!. We can take an arsehole
Out of Scotland, put him in 10 Downing Street and have half the country
Looking for work within twenty-four hours
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
And I thought he was a Liberal!
I have a couple of days to get the postal vote sorted, and this has come through the door, from a well established contractor, used by amongst others Llandudno Town Council.
I am pretty sure he used to be a Liberal though.
Funny how do you do!
One of the other party candidates has stood on "I nursed my father through cancer" tickets.
Most distasteful to me using that as a "vote for me" reason.
Tight Arsed Brunstrom
Like or loath the Victorian extravaganza it brings in thousands of people to Llandudno on what I am told would otherwise be a pretty non event of a bank holiday.
It is a non profit event for the organisers, always has been and it is run by volunteers.
Yet this year, in line with the Rhos fun day, North Wales Police have imposed a £6,000 charge on the event.
The have already been paying the council for road closures etc and this charge could well be the final nail in the coffin fir the extravaganza.
The Police find the manpower for doing all their social work such as litter picking and going to tea parties in the community, they police the local pubs and club of a Saturday night, they put our council tax up, give their police station away for ethnic minority purposes, give half a million pound interest free loans to organisations, yet for an event such as this for the 99.9% of law abiding people, charge 6 grand.
Any wonder people have no respect for them?
The copper on the ground is a sound being, but the higher ranking officers have lost touch.
Look at the photo of them collecting rubbish, did they join up for that?
What has that got to do with enforcing the law?
Mean spirited, tight arsed gits!
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Dilys Mars-Jones
If young Dilys gets re elected, and a prospective candidate for Deganwy, a lady called Jean Davies gets elected, Dilys may well loose her mantle as the oldest councillor in Britain.
For this election address I have had e mailed to me shows Jean to be in her 80's to 90's.
And she is against GM foods, now that's a good election point for the local elections if ever there was!
Bloody hell, what she is on I wonder?
Give me a bottle of that please!
Thought.
There was a crowd in the doctor’s waiting room. An elderly
gentleman rose and approached the receptionist.
“Madam, “ he said courteously, “my appointment was
for ten o’clock and it is almost eleven now. I cannot wait
any longer. Would you kindly give me an appointment for
another day?”
One woman in the crowd leaned over to another and
said, “He must be at least eighty years old. What sort of
urgent business can he have that he cannot afford to wait?”
The man overheard the whispered remark. He turned to
the lady, bowed and said, “I am eighty-seven years old,
ma’am. Which is precisely the reason why I cannot afford
to waste a single minute of the precious time I have left.
The enlightened do not waste a minute because they have
understood the relative unimportance of everything they do.
Reply To A Reader
Anonymous said...
Are you a conservative? Do you vote conservative? The finch would like to know please.
22 April 2008 09:12
Oscar said...
I have and will always vote Conservative at any general election, and even the ARSEmbly.
But at the local ones I vote for who I please and the best candidate for my ward., except a Labour candidate, that would be too much against the grain, and a sure sign if impending insanity!
What gives these local pillocks the right to think they have a God given right to attract the vote, just because they have a particular party backing?
Some of them are so far up their own arses it is just not true.
They have no idea about practically anything they talk about!
As for Finch I do not know the lady. I only know of her.
22 April 2008 12:16
Monday, 21 April 2008
Food Glorious Food!
Met a couple of business colleagues at lunchtime ,at the Ship Inn ,Red Wharfe Bay on Anglesey, before spending most of the afternoon in a stuffy office in Parc Menai, crunching numbers, a task I particularly hate, but there it had to be done, I felt drowsy after my lunch, that being one problem!
The food was spot on, I had some seared smoked king scallops,on a black pudding, with a spicy chili Crème fraîche sauce and a quality side salad, followed by their home made ! Fish N Chips, bloody lovely.
They both had pate, on a granary bloomer and a delicious lamb hock, absolute quality.
As you can see, the view is quite something to, it has I read been in the same family since 1971, so they are doing something right.
One point I would like to make, if some potential and serving councillors think I make some acrid and think not a lot of councillors, my 2 colleagues were certainly no different, we spent a few minutes talking about the councils and the elections, after hearing their reaction, one wonders why any one would want to put themselves up for a position held in such low esteem by the majority of us out here.
As one said to me, the moment you become a councillor , you become the ridiculed as opposed to doing the ridiculing!
" money grabbing bastards"
I also heard for the second time in my life the exact same scenario, he said to me, " can you imagine anything worse than some phoning you up at night to complain about a dog shitting on their drive"
I got his point!
Now I am still feeling so stuffed, I can not face dinner!
And Another!
Three women: one engaged, one married, and one a mistress, chatting about their relationships and decide to amaze their men....that night all three agreed to wear a leather bodice S&M style, stilettos and mask over their eyes .
After a few days they meet again.....
The engaged girlfriend said: 'The other night, when my boyfriend came back home, he found me in the leather bodice, 4' stilettos and mask. He said, 'You are the woman of my life, I love you, then we made love all night long.'
The mistress stated: 'Oh Yes! The other night we met in the office. I was wearing the leather bodice, mega stilettos, mask over my eyes and a raincoat. When I opened the raincoat, he didn' say a word. We just had wild sex all night.'
The married one then said: 'The other night I sent the kids to stay at my mothers for the night, I got myself ready, leather bodice, super stilettos and mask over my eyes. My husband came in from work, grabbed the TV controller and a beer, and said, 'Hey Batman, what's for dinner ?'
Little Joke------
A lady walks into a high class jewellery shop. She browses
around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it.
As she bends over to look more closely she inadvertently breaks wind.
Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone has
noticed her little accident and prays that a sales person doesn't pop up
right now.
As she turns around, her worst nightmare materialises in the form
of a salesman standing right behind her.
Cool as a cucumber and displaying complete professionalism, the
salesman greets the lady with, "Good day, Madam. How may we help you
today?"
Very uncomfortably, but hoping that the salesman may just not
have been there at the time of her little 'accident', she asks, "Sir, what
is the price of this lovely bracelet?"
He answers, "Madam, if you farted just looking at it, you're
going to shit yourself when I tell you the price."
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Sing Us A Song John, In Tune Please!
Preserve the "Gogarth Abbey" G'Day.
Outward
22:30 Depart London Heathrow Airport via Hong Kong International Airport 06:35 Arrive Sydney (Kingsford-Smith Airport) + 2 days
Mon 28 APR 23 hours , 05 minutes
Return
14:25 Depart Sydney (Kingsford-Smith Airport) via Hong Kong International Airport 05:25 Arrive London Heathrow Airport + 1 day
Sun 18 MAY 24 hours , 0 minutes
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Well as you will see , we are off for a few weeks next Sunday, looking forward to the break, the longest such break I think we have ever had.
We have being in the midst's of illness of late with several people that we know, or at least relations of theirs, being very ill.
One relation of a friend may well not be here by the time we get back, so so very sad.
All that ever serves me to think is that we are all only passing through, we all only have one stab at life, and we can't take what ever we have made with us.
I remember reading years ago some where that we will not be lying on our death bed "wishing we had spent more time in the office"
I always think of that one.
I will post this week, but quite honestly not spend much time looking at the computer whilst away, well that's what I say now!
Funnily enough though, I will have my phone with me, sad really, but ones feels quite lost without it these days!
Jackdaw Tales.
She was also fine with the library closure programme, that has all gone quiet for now at least.
Saturday, 19 April 2008
And Another!
She and her supporters have a go about us spelling her name wrong. Well last night another piece of paper was stuck through the letter box, and again her name was spelt wrong.
Oh and this time she and her mates are now advocating speed cameras!
Nice one!
William Graham.
I never take much notice of the parish council, known to many as the ARSEmbly, but was watching a welsh news programme the other evening, on who was being interviewed but William Graham.
It was all about the unfair waiting times and and the state of the Welsh health service.
Boy did he come out of it well, well spoken, knowledgeable and no body's fool.
More like the Conservatives we knew.
Could do with a few more conservatives like him in public office.
To be fair I had also been put off by his looks, bald head and beard, unfair I know, but having seen him on television I really liked him.
