Boadicea's Chariot

During my adult life in Britain I was exposed to a number of fables, much less enjoyable or wise than those of Aesop, to which I was introduced in childhood. Three, in particular, have lodged in my memory.

The death penalty is not a deterrent.

Is it an unconnected coincidence, then, that the once rare crime of murder is now almost a daily occurrence?

Physical punishment of children teaches them to use violence.

Since the clamp down on the parental smack, youth violence has grown to horrendous levels.

Banning hand-guns will make Britain safer.

Today, only criminals possess guns, and gun crime is at a record high.

Sadly, those who spouted these fables in the past, continue to do so, apparently oblivious to the frailty of their case.

Which of today’s fables have I overlooked, do you think?

JLL -Johnny Be Goode

I could be wrong, but I personally believe that we need to get the Boadicea’s Chariot Creative Writing Competition on to a more regular and balanced footing. To explain, I am a Libran and it’s what we do.

So, what about the last day of the next month for the next deadline?  Works for me and we will have absolutely none of this nonsense that some idiot on this site keeps dragging up  about BST v GMT.

Midnight in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Sunday 31st October 2010 for the deadline.

For the theme, the next day, November 1st  is,  reputedly,  the day on which one of  William Shakespeare’s last plays, ‘The Tempest’ was first performed in 1611.

So, less than 2,000 words, any format. No words to incorporate but your entry has to be inspired  by one of the more memorable quotes from said play:-

‘O brave new world! That has such people in it!’

Most of these were taken with my Fuji Finepix set on sports mode and shot from the window of the car as we zoomed past – some half decent shots nonetheless 🙂

I couldn’t stop to take photographs – except in the mountain gorge – because we were on such a tight schedule – six cities and a thousand kilometres in three days with a couple of hours or so work to do in each place checking piles of seized cigarettes in Romanian Customs warehouses to see which were counterfeit and which real. (If anyone would like to know why, I can tell you – it’s not Classified!) See the pics

When asked if he’d like to visit the Soviet Union “The bastards murdered half my family”

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

HMRC is suggesting that our wages should be sent to them instead of to us. They will deduct the tax due and only then send our money to our banks.

Not mine, they won’t.

Fixed link

Of course, we all trust the bureaucrats to look after our money and not, for example, to lose the dvd containing the payment authorisation for our cash, or losing our record so that, hey, what do you know, you’re not getting paid this month.

We know, don’t we, that they are not going to make any mistakes, and that, if they do, some bureaucrat in Glasgow* is going to confess its** error and cough up your cash straight away, don’t we?

And, heaven forfend that your cash or your personal financial details will end up on some eurocrat’s desk in the EUSSR, that could never happen, could it?

Time for the Tea Party to return to the Mother Country, methinks.

*No offence, JM, just that if you live in Polperro and your wages are sent to the other end of the country instead of to you…

** Non-gender specific – applies particularly well to bureaucrats 🙂

Jerry Lee Lewis – The Wild One

Are they going to happen?

British Gymnasts try out their accommodation in the athletes’ village.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8017921/Pictures-of-the-day-23-September-2010.html?image=16

When I was young my mum always had French cheeses. When I was young I didn’t think life could get
any better than an ash-coated French goat cheese on a freshly baked baguette with a cup of coffee.
That all changed, however, when I had my first bite of Huntsman… I never looked back. British cheeses became my standard and very rarely do I now have some at home. Now it looks as if my fellow citizens are starting to catch up with me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8018358/Germany-goes-mad-for-British-cheese.html

This could well be the beginning of a new British Renaissance.