For the Record

Just for the record, and we have said this many times on various sites, Bilby and I do not support killing policemen.  Furthermore we do not make a habit of making unsubstantiated accusations on the Chariot or elsewhere about fellow authors on this site, or any other. Neither do we support or write  abusive comments about Bearsy or Boadicea.

End of message, no further comments on this matter will be forthcoming from either of us. We are somewhat dismayed to have to make this statement.

This post is now closed to further comments – Boadicea

The Sails of Antibes

Having been told the other day by the usual idiot on MyT  that we were “living the high life in Antibes”, we thought we ought to do something to deserve this description.  So, having finished the ironing – and how high life is that? – we went out to look at the yachts taking part in the annual  Voiles d’Antibes regatta. Continue reading “The Sails of Antibes”

The drought is over

As I drove along the highway to East London today I heard the news that the Kouga dam was overflowing! I was going to type “you have no idea what this means to us ‘ but of course most here do.

It is the largest of the dams supplying this region, when full, as now it is 35 km long!

2 of our other dams are overflowing and the other two must be close to overflowing by now.

So, my question is, why hasn’t our municipality made a statement about this, this is the best news that we’ve had in perhaps 2 years and nothing from them.

Is it because it happened on a weekend?

Is it perhaps because despite prior warnings our council has been shown to be completely inadequate in times of flood disaster management.

OR

Is it because they can no longer charge ratepayers a penalty for exceeding limits now that water is in plentiful supply?

Trooping the Colour – Scottish version

I’m sitting watching the Trooping of the Colour ceremony. This year the colour being trooped is that of the Scots Guards, complete with their pipes and drums in Royal Stewart tartan.  We’ve already had arrangements of two poems by Robert Burns: ” My love is like a red, red rose “and then “Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon”.    As one of the pipers commented, when a Scot hears the pipes he/she always thinks of “home”.  The quick march was a composition entitled “The Glaswegians”  incorporating that well known song  “I belong to Glasgow”. Yes, I did sing along.

It was interesting to watch Clare Balding “interviewing” the drum horses, who had had a bath and shampoo first thing this morning.   The third drum horse, who is apparently the biggest horse in Britain at 20 hands, is still too young for such ceremonial occasions as he has not completed his training.

It really is a magnificent spectacle, even though of relatively recent origin, having been started by Edward VII.  We’ve just had “Men of Harlech” for the Welsh Guards and there are four Irish pipers in with the Scots, so it is a spectacular celebration of the whole UK.