Category: General

Procrastination

I should be working. I am going to get on with it in a minute. Honest. I’ve left a few comments here and posted a new post on my page, so if I just put a post here that will keep me from my work a few more minutes.

So what to post? I feel the hand of SabinaA upon me. You know how she likes to post those teasing questions.

So this is mine.

Apart from your toaster, washing machine, cooker and kettle, which is your favourite kitchen appliance and why?

After much thought (more procrastination) I’ve decided mine is my Remoska. It was nearly my mini food-processor which I use a lot, but I could manage without it, while my little Remoska is fantastic for baking beetroots and cooking all sorts of things where I wouldn’t want to turn my big (electric) oven on for.

Now to work.

Or maybe, I shall just wait a moment or two and see if anyone replies…

Oh, Gawd!!

I see that Gordon Brown has announced that everyone in the U of K will get their own personal web site that can use to do all their interaction with Government agencies, if only we have the goodness to re-elect him (correction, elect him).

Given this (or any other) government’s previous record in setting up IT systems, I cannot help but think that if anyone was stupid enough to try and set this up, it would be a total disaster.

This is leaving aside, of course, what about the security aspect? Does anyone really believe that anyone using such a system will not be the victim of clandestine monitoring, with spyware downloaded whenever you access the government sites?  I can imagine a government led by Gordon Brown or any of his cronies monitoring every time a user of the system then logs onto a Conservative website. They will get an instant increase in their tax rate, or maybe an instant on-line fine. And as for the likes of Horrible Harriet Harperson and her Harpies monitoring a chap’s every visit to a naughty website, the mind boggles!

Still, not to worry! Any attempt to set such a system up will never work, the only problem being that it would cost a mind-numbing sum of money to find this out!

On This Day – 20th March 2003

On the 20th of March 2003 the US launched missiles on Baghdad.

I was opposed to the war then and I am still opposed to it.

I have no doubt that the ‘Verdict of History’ will find Bush, Blair and Howard guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, my only sorrow is that they will never stand trial in their lifetimes.

Please note that I have nothing but admiration and respect for the soldiers who were and still are being sent to  fight and die in this war which was based on the lies and deceit of men who thought they were above the Will of their people.

The Grand Unveiling

Ferret :

Kevmart is a bit of a wierd name choice but whatever floats your boat chum, as for your MyT ID, I always assumed that was a label you chose specifically to annoy a certain breed of bigot and therefore not necessarily a name that would suit on this site.

SPOT ON!!!

It seems incorrectly I assumed that ‘profiles’ were visible to others therefore in my profile under the info section it clearly states who I am. Bearsy kindly corrected this misunderstanding for me.

I’ll be honest I was initially loathe to join this, viewing it as yet another extension of ‘MyT’, again this turned out to be an incorrect assumption on my part …. (time to slap myself silly). However having looked in a few times I note that this place has a more civil tone than that other place. Long may this continue. The last thing I want and I hope you all want is to bring external strife on to these hallowed pages …. long may this (also) continue.

There is much we can learn from each other, none here (at least I don’t think so) can claim absolute knowledge in all things. Let this be a happy medium for learning.

Now the moment you have all been waiting for – wait for it … read more …

Another century

In the bank today I suddenly came face to face with a walking bin-liner. It really is a most unpleasant experience to see only two eyes staring at you from behind a wall of black.  Should the bank even have let her in? Handy disguise for a bank robber, I’d have thought.

Then I remembered that on Monday during our day trip to Morocco I’d have quite welcomed something that spared me from the persistent attentions of all the street hawkers. I wouldn’t have gone for the all-enveloping niqab though. It was disappointing that nothing much seemed to have improved since our last visit to Morocco five years ago. The guide was not interested in showing us anything like the royal palace in Tetouan but just wanted to take us into the medina where he could lead us to a carpet shop. Apart from the fresh food everything on sale in the market was ‘tat’ and the clothes stalls looked as if some one had hijacked an Oxfam collection.

If asylum seekers/illegal immigrants can scrape up thousands to pay people -traffickers, they would do better to put the money towards a decent education for themselves. How can they expect to find a decent job in a western country without it?  This culture still looked light years behind. Western tourists are for fleecing and thus the whole western world is supposed to hand out baksheesh.