A serious question

I would like the opinion of others on this site about a sad event from last week that is just starting to unfold.

Last Thursday morning we received a call from ma in law, my wife’s sister had been found sprawled out in her conservatory dead, she had been there at least 48 hours, looking like suicide. Toxicology reports have confirmed that she had taken an overdose of her tablets and there was a note, citing some married bloke she was going out with, who by all accounts is not a nice guy, married 3 very young kids and known for violence (don’t ask I don’t know).

Now my serious question is if you were taking an overdose to kill yourself would you be lying on a cold stone concrete floor in the conservatory, especially as she is disabled and has trouble getting up, or would you be in bed or an arm chair?

I can’t help but feel there is more to this than meets the eye, also she adores her cats and just left them, which is unlike her.

Late night call to the vet

A dog lover, whose dog was a female and “in heat’, agreed to look after her neighbours male dog while the neighbours were on vacation.

She had a large house and believed that she could keep the two dogs apart. However, as she was drifting off to sleep she heard awful howling and moaning sounds, rushed downstairs and found the dogs locked together, in obvious pain and unable to disengage, as so frequently happens when dogs mate.

Unable to separate them and perplexed as to what to do next, although it was late, she called the vet, who answered in a very grumpy voice.

Having explained the problem to him, the vet said, “Hang up the phone and place it down alongside the dogs. I will then call you back and the noise of the ringing will make the male lose his erection and he will be able to withdraw.”

“Do you think that will work?” she asked.

“It just worked for me,” he replied.

Why?

Why does the USA continue to kill its own citizens?

The “Leader of the Free World” tries to spread its version of “democracy” beyond its borders; it physically attacks Libya for mowing down its civilians and verbally attacks Syria for the same crime.   It holds itself as a model for other countries to emulate, criticising, inter alia, the Chinese Human Rights record.

Yet it still murders its criminals, assuming the right of the nation to take life.   I don’t know if the guy was guilty.  There does appear to be at least reasonable doubt; more than a hint of having been framed by a racist police force.   But even if he was as guilty as Hell, what message does it send to the rest of the world?

America straps its people to a table, injects them with poison and ghoulishly watches them die in agony.   Bastards!

Back the Boks

Game card front
Our local brewer also happen to be a major Springbok sponsor, they are currently running the above promotion, buy a Castle, get a Back the Boks game card.
When you open the card you’re given details of the prize, the player and the game. If your player scores a try in the specified game you collect, easy!

I’d do anything for you, dear, anything … but …

I’ve just been reading an e-mail from an old friend who is going to a wedding this weekend.

It’s an eco-wedding to be held in the open air in Scotland. But the accommodation available at this eco-hostel is either an eight-bed bunkhouse,  which might be fine if everyone is very friendly, or some sort of Swedish tent with a sleeping platform and cooking space.

It got me wondering just what my response would be if invited to such an event.  To what extent should the bride and groom impose their ideas on their guests, especially in my native land with its variable weather?  We are now accustomed to bridal parties forking out to attend ceremonies on Caribbean beaches, but at least there is generally a hotel involved.

Both our nieces in America had different weddings:  one in Tudor costume with Apache prayers, which don’t seem to have worked since they’re now divorced, and the other on the top of a hill in Colorado, which involved a fairly stiff climb.  Thankfully both were in termtime, so we had a readymade excuse.

But I think if we were invited to such an eco-friendly do, I would follow my friend’s example.  She’s insisted on staying in the nearest four-star hotel, at the risk of being considered antisocial.