Fundamentalists – they’re all barking!

The Islamists get a lot of bad press these days, invariably rightly so. One argument often put forth is that it is an uncivilised religion several hundred years behind christianity – hence it is somewhat barbaric in its attitudes.

However, that may suggest that judaism should be very civilised as it is a few thousand years older than even christianity. It appears not. This article shows how mad mullahs are everywhere, no matter the label.

Linky thing to BBC article here

Three points – surely Judaism doesn’t believe in reincarnation? I thought that was the Buddhists, and I don’t recall it mentioned in the old testament.

Secondly – get local children to carry out the sentence of stoning the said guilty dog? How can a religion support the killing of a dumb animal unless for food or sustenance?

Thirdly – dogs are impure animals? What makes one pure? I’d rather have dogs around me than these rabbis!

Well used or worn out?

This morning Scout went off with his little group on his  Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award

He had borrowed from school a suitably sized rucksack and bought it home the other night with his usual school bag inside it. It sat on the dining room floor for a couple of days, while the dining room table filled up with all the necessary items: sleeping roll, sleeping bag, saucepan, first aid kit, compass, torch, waterproof socks, and junky food being just part of it. Lots of fun-sized chocolate. You get the picture.

Prompting him to pack it on Thursday night to check it out didn’t bring any results. Then last night he started to pack, which was when he started to discovers its short comings. Continue reading “Well used or worn out?”

I Decided to Paint my Smallest Shed Today.

I was moved to paint my shed today, I know not why, idly surfing the net this morning I was overcome with an irresistible artistic urge to paint my smallest shed.

The smallest shed was acquired back at the end of last year when I was summarily evicted from the then exiting smallest shed (now the second smallest) together with my definitive collection of gasoline powered tools, THAT small shed has become a sort of shrine to the garden gods, odd potions, pots, bags of expensive dirt (sorry-potting soil) and chemicals mingling with the usual collection of hand tools, which inexplicably were allowed to remain.

Yes, that is a small refrigerator on the right, it holds that vital accompaniment to serious gardening , cold beer.
Continue reading “I Decided to Paint my Smallest Shed Today.”

Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Mock orange flowers
shine white in the dark storm light
restless in the wind

The grey storm clouds surrounded us yesterday evening, but only  a few drops fell.  The wind has been blustery. The moon was hiding. Today has been changeable, and very wet at times (especially when I planned to repoint the patio)
Here is the end of my weather report. Continue reading “Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.”

Using the wrong WC has its consquences….

I came across this article the other day – it made me glad to be in Mother England. Then I wondered….what would happen if I used the queen’s little room…..(I have cut and pasted rather than done a linky thing, hope you don’t mind)

A Zimbabwean police officer arrested for using president Robert Mugabe’s private toilet has been jailed for 10 days, it was reported on Thursday.
A court found that DS Alois Mabhunu yielded to the call of nature and forced his way past guards to a loo reserved for 87-year-old Mugabe at a recent trade show.
“He was convicted by an internal police court and sentenced to 10 days in prison,”
But Mabhunu has appealed to the national police commissioner, Augustine Chihuri, to overturn the verdict, the station added.
“He has been convicted and sentenced to 10 days in prison by the police court but has since made an appeal to the police commissioner soon after conviction,” said a source quoted by VOP.
Mabhunu, a murder detective, has also been demoted and transferred to a different police station, though he will remain in the city of Bulawayo. He is no longer allowed to wear plain clothes and expected to report for duty in full uniform.
The incident happened at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) early last month. According to VOP, Bulawayo police would only say that Mabhunu’s case was “an internal matter”.
Zimbabweans get in Mugabe’s way at their peril. Several motorists are said to have been assaulted by his security personnel for not giving way to the presidential motorcade.