Without warning, a wall of water swept through Dent Street in Toowoomba, tumbling cars as though they were leaves, some with occupants.
Oh yes, Queenslanders are just “showing off”, as one Charioteer said recently. They’re not real floods, just a few puddles. Yeah, right.
After a pretty wet week, it was a pleasant change to have a crisp, but sunny day, so we took a stroll by the river. It was crowded on the bank but nothing much moving on the river, which was hardly surprising; there are cautions in force at the moment for boats.
“Molly” and crew ignored this ( they usually do! ) but they were the only boat to use the lock while we were there.
Generally speaking, the government’s proposals for changing employment law are sensible and measured. I have always believed it wrong to apply the law with equal rigour to small companies and large corporations, and I would include in the changes removing the rights to have one’s job retained over a period of maternity leave. This hurts the small employer disproportionately. I would argue that the law should be much lighter on firms employing no more than 15 people.
It also makes sense to return to the two year qualifying period required to take an employer to an Employment Tribunal. Reducing it to one year has been a major factor in clogging the system. However, I am much less sanguine about the suggestion advanced by some Human Resource executives that employees should have to deposit £250 in order to sue their employer. Such a measure could well lead to the unintended outcome of driving more workers into trade unions. A significant attraction for some workers, most notably in transport, is the union offer to meet legal costs.
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
She says “so, you say you were up all night trying to put an image in a comment!”
Boadicea and I were watching the news this evening, a short article about an army handler’s dog that had been lost for weeks in Afghanistan, but had been found and reunited with his human partner. There were cute pictures of dog and man, both obviously delighted to be together again.
This really brought it home to us – Muslim’s don’t like dogs; they call them “unclean” and shun them. That does it for us.
Every Muslim in the whole wide world is condemned. They are not dog-lovers, and anyone who doesn’t like dogs should be exiled to the outer darkness.
No reprieve, no remission. Islam is declared anathema until every adherent acquires a six-week-old puppy and gets enthusiastically licked.
Bearsy has spoken!
Oh gosh! Groom, lick, scratch, lick, lick, groom! What can I say as first choice of the first photo competition, after spending half the night getting instructions from Bearsy and Boa on how to size an image? Thank you too, Pseu and Val. After all my abortive efforts at Creative Writing it seems all I had to do was to aim my 130 Euro point-and-press thingey at an Alentejan sunset one night and Bingo, the Wolf’s avatar appears in all its glory!
OK. Being lupine, I have a longing for things natural. Give me a shot of forest, landscape or horizon that might interest a wolf. Closing date two weeks hence, 12.00 hrs, GMT, Monday, 24th January, unless anyone has any objections.
To avoid any possible misunderstanding, 12.00 hrs is MIDDAY.
I’ll do my very best to give you the results on Monday evening.
OZ
It goes without saying that the breaking of wind in company should at all costs be avoided. There are other disgusting habits that should not be formulated when others are about. I will not expound.
Gratuitous swearing is not nice and I have stopped swearing for over a year now (I got a round of applause at the last SA meeting). Something happened on Saturday that was many times worse than swearing in public. Continue reading “Social taboos”
Copied from Judge Val’s comment, with regard to this competition
“Pseu asked for ‘Sunlight and clouds’, and she got it in abundance. Each of the photographs posted in the first of this competition, are quite simply, beautiful, which has made my task as the first judge, very difficult indeed. Size wise, we’ve all struggled a bit, but with time and patience, we will conquer. Continue reading “Themed photo – Val’s Judgement”
Boadicea's Chariot 
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