Boadicea's Chariot

Here you go Soutie.

“Shrien Dewani: Judge rules SA extradition can go ahead.

A judge has ruled that a man accused of ordering the murder of his wife on their honeymoon in South Africa can be extradited to stand trial.”

Sorry for taking so long to set the next competition. To be frank, the news was getting me down. I am usually a right little Pollyanna but all this nonsense was getting to even me and my Jockish bedrock was beginning to poke through.

So, yesterday my short-list of subjects for the next photo competition included ‘Despair’, ‘Doomed’, ‘Disaster’ and ‘Apocalypse’.
Continue reading “14th Photo Competition”

Standards

Some years ago I was working on some European Standards (CEN/CENELEC) and we held one of our meetings in Dublin. On the final day a group of us did a conducted bus tour around the Dublin area. Continue reading “Standards”

Change One Word

Police Force from Police Service.

Simples

just a silly to keep you amused, very addicitve.

Okay people as it is summer time try this one and have fun

http://www.lufthansa-vp.com/vp1/play.html

Looting and theft.

Everyone is at it now. Bloody good job it wasn’t a Blackbird. A few bleeding hearts would be up in arms if it had been.

Oh what a surprise – not!

These riots were a disaster waiting to happen. The government knew full well they were taking a gamble on the way they have treated the lowest stratum of society. Through brutal cuts in public spending they have been made to take the brunt of the financial sector’s astoundingly bad performance, yet bankers continue to pay themselves £billions in bonuses.

Meanwhile the relationship between young black people and the police deteriorates. Mark Duggan’s death is yet another in a long line (at least 333) deaths in police custody, yet not a single police officer has been convicted for a death-in-custody incident.

Is it really any wonder these young people feel angry, disenfranchised, have nothing left to lose?

You can put the lid on a boiling pot but unless you deal with the fire underneath, you are going to get an explosion.

Saving lives

Arachnophobia afflicts two members of our household, while I’m rather fond of the eight legged scuttlers, even when they are fairly large. So when I saw this:

on the landing I knew I had to do something. Continue reading “Saving lives”

New Olympic event

I see from the papers that our Olympic team are practising well with the new events on offer for next year.

The 200 metre sprint with a 42inch plasma telly on your head.
changing into stolen track suit and trainers in under 10 seconds.
How quick can you get from riot one to riot 2

and so the list goes on.

When the press stop calling them rioters and start calling them thieving vandals the better, then maybe, just maybe they will realise it is their shopping centres and local businesses they are destroying, not the establishment. Continue reading “New Olympic event”