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A crab for Christina

Just attempting a catch-up and noticed Christina’s poignant longing for a nice south coast crab.

Here’s one I ate earlier. Found the image on my phone last night. Had quite forgotten I’d even taken it.

Be a little naughty….

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Gurkha suspended for beheading prime Taliban insurgent…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295617/Gurkha-ordered-UK-beheading-dead-Taliban-fighter.html

So it is considered extremely offensive to Taliban Muslims? I am so very concerned about that aspect of his actions…

A close relative served with the Gurkhas in the anti-communist-terrorist war in Malaya in the 1950s. The CTs were absolutely terrified of them, for very good reason. It strikes me, given the demand of the MOD for positive identification, the man should be given a medal for using his initiative, not suspended. Had he chopped his head off in face-to-face combat, presumably that would have been fine, and it is splitting hairs, to my mind, to make a fuss in the circumstances, when he was dead, given the demands for a positive ID. He didn’t scalp the man as a trophy: He detached his head from his body to supply the ID demanded. They can send the head back in due course, when they are finished with it.