Lunching with Islam or munching with Muslims

Apologies, this has been published before, but I have not had time to complete the next in the series. Supper with Sikhs or Barbies with Buddhists possibly?

Well I took a chance today and despite all the anti-Islam hysteria I thought Iā€™d risk having lunch with a very old friend, who just happens to be Muslim. Forewarned and forearmed and remembering all the warnings to be vigilant, I took a deep breath and stepped hesitantly into the dining area of the Whatsit Arms in Thingy. Continue reading “Lunching with Islam or munching with Muslims”

Little Gentleman

Today was my son (I accidentally wrote sun, Freudian slip? šŸ™‚ )’s 9th birthday. We did the cake thing yesterday, with 6 of his friends. To listen to their converstaion was surprising and amusing.

During their fun, they began to ask questions, who is the most clever, best football player etc. One question made me proud; “Who is the most gentleman?” All of them pointed my son.

I love him to his bits. Happy birthday my sun, many happy returns.

For the record

I wrote this some time ago for MyT. I have seen nothing since to suggest a change of view.

1. The decision to permit unrestricted immigration of low-skilled, poorly educated immigrants from a culture that is entirely different from our own, sharing none, or almost none of the values of 20th century western society and with no forethought or preparation as to how these people were to be integrated into UK life was a huge mistake. Read on if you’re interested

Procrastination

I should be working. I am going to get on with it in a minute. Honest. Iā€™ve left a few comments here and posted a new post on my page, so if I just put a post here that will keep me from my work a few more minutes.

So what to post? I feel the hand of SabinaA upon me. You know how she likes to post those teasing questions.

So this is mine.

Apart from your toaster, washing machine, cooker and kettle, which is your favourite kitchen appliance and why?

After much thought (more procrastination) Iā€™ve decided mine is my Remoska. It was nearly my mini food-processor which I use a lot, but I could manage without it, while my little Remoska is fantastic for baking beetroots and cooking all sorts of things where I wouldnā€™t want to turn my big (electric) oven on for.

Now to work.

Or maybe, I shall just wait a moment or two and see if anyone repliesā€¦

Oh, Gawd!!

I see that Gordon Brown has announced that everyone in the U of K will get their own personal web site that can use to do all their interaction with Government agencies, if only we have the goodness to re-elect him (correction, elect him).

GivenĀ this (or any other) government’s previous record in setting up IT systems, I cannot help but think that if anyone was stupidĀ enoughĀ to try and set this up, it would be aĀ totalĀ disaster.

This is leaving aside, of course, what about the security aspect? Does anyone really believe that anyone using such a system will not be theĀ victimĀ ofĀ clandestineĀ monitoring, with spyware downloadedĀ wheneverĀ you access the government sites? Ā I can imagine a government led by Gordon Brown or any of his cronies monitoring every time a user of the system then logs onto a Conservative website.Ā TheyĀ will get an instant increase in their tax rate, or maybe an instant on-line fine. And as for the likes of Horrible Harriet Harperson and her Harpies monitoring a chap’s every visit to a naughty website, the mind boggles!

Still, not to worry! Any attempt to set such a system up will never work, the only problem being that it would cost a mind-numbing sum of money to find this out!