Heat (things are seldom what they seem)- Janus comp

The tabloids had run out of clichés when the world decided to burn. Editors tried to express in print the blazing rays emanating from the big yellow star in the sky: Searing heat scorches Earth, Another fiery day, This is the age of Apollo’s rage. The capricious Sun was blazing and the times were-a-changing.

For three days record-breaking recordings of high temperatures had been reported around the planet causing catastrophe and change. The poles were melting, from space a red ring could be seen circling the Equator, tidal waves churned the doldrums and birds of paradise were sighted in the Thames. Continue reading “Heat (things are seldom what they seem)- Janus comp”

Lest We Forget

Rhodesia

Unilateral Declaration of Independence

11th November 1965

Whereas in the course of human affairs history has shown that it may become necessary for a people to resolve the political affiliations which have connected them with another people and to assume amongst other nations the separate and equal status to which they are entitled:

And whereas in such event a respect for the opinions of mankind requires them to declare to other nations the causes which impel them to assume full responsibility for their own affairs: Continue reading “Lest We Forget”

The ‘Other’ Lest We Forget

Without in any way wishing to detract from the solemnity associated with Remembrance Day, I would like to bring attention to another event that took place on the 11th of November, one that changed my life and that of many others in more ways than one can imagine.

http://sipu1.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/lest-we-forget/

For the record, during the Great War my paternal grandfather served  in the Royal Field Artillery and my maternal grandfather was wounded at Gallipoli.

Probably the Best-named Beer in the World

Now I realise that posting pictures of any sort of beer might be seen as slightly provocative in the present climate.

But I just have to share this.

When the Threshers empire belly flopped, I had three of their Wine Rack branches within a five minute drive. They closed, festered and got festooned with  Festival Fringe posters. Then some local franchise acquired them and, mindful of the fact that us Jocks have a severe thirst at most times, refurbished and re-opened them. Continue reading “Probably the Best-named Beer in the World”

Tolerance.

Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan ‘for blasphemy’

The court heard she had been working as a farmhand in fields with other women, when she was asked to fetch drinking water.

Some of the other women – all Muslims – refused to drink the water as it had been brought by a Christian and was therefore “unclean”, according to Mrs Bibi’s evidence, sparking a row.

The incident was forgotten until a few days later when Mrs Bibi said she was set upon by a mob.

The police were called and took her to a police station for her own safety.

Shahzad Kamran, of the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan, said: “The police were under pressure from this Muslim mob, including clerics, asking for Asia to be killed because she had spoken ill of the Prophet Mohammed.

“So after the police saved her life they then registered a blasphemy case against her.” He added that she had been held in isolation for more than a year before being sentenced to death on Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8120142/Christian-woman-sentenced-to-death-in-Pakistan-for-blasphemy.html

Tolerant, innit?

 

Is Dolly Parton working as a checkout girl now?

Dolly Parton is a very nice, talented and generous woman, so when I saw this news I wondered if she had fallen on hard times and had to start working as a checkout girl in Jersey (Old not New)

It appears that a customer at the checkout was charged too much because the checkout girl’s bazoomas were resting on the scales at the checkout station, because her chair was too low. Whoops.
Continue reading “Is Dolly Parton working as a checkout girl now?”