You have to ask the question – Why ?
I think the aspect of this, that is more impressive than Alex riding the keel, is the angle at which the yacht is heeling over and not capsizing.
Suited and booted, daredevil sailor Alex rides keel of yacht – East Hampshire – The News.
Its been a long time coming but finally common sense has won through.
Well done to the News for their steady campaigning.
Vascular surgery to stay at Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital – News – The News.
I’m thinking that this track / song is likely to become the theme tune for the planners in the Waterlooville area.
I know that the song is based around Saltdean and the South Downs, home to the Copper Family, who are based in Rottingdean and Peacehaven also in Sussex. The track features reminiscences of their family.
However, the sentiment is fitting for almost anywhere in the UK these days as the planners clamber over themselves to fill in all the open green areas with ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses
Take a listen ….’Ouses, ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses – John Copper & Sheila Chandra
It makes me “prostrate with dismal” too.
I haven’t done one of these for a while. Mainly because I’ve been tied down with work when I have been sitting here. So here I am with a little break.
Whats happening in the garden ?
Well right now we are inundated with tits and pigeons. With temperatures only just rising to zero at noon the poor little birds are busy raiding the feeders. It’s nice to watch them flitting from bush to feeder to tree and back again.
Mind you the pigeons are just like vacuum cleaners. Once they get on the bird table they just fill up on seed and don’t let anything else get a look in. So every once in a while I just stand up. The pigeons are so twitchy, that is all it takes to cause them to fly off and give the rest of the bird kingdom a chance.
Have you noticed how much static you can build up during these crisp, dry, cold spells ?
Got myself one hell of a belt from my laptop this morning. Or maybe I gave it one. Even so the crack that sounded was impressive.
What am I listening to at the moment ?
Well I finally got my Streamium talking to the internet again. Had to plumb it in using an ethernet cable. Not ideal but at least my Soundbridge is back in the lounge attached to the HiFi. The Streamium is still not talking to my PC, YET !!! So I can only listen to my CD/MP3 collection when I am sat close to the PC but I will prevail.
So right now I am listening to Radio Lewes Why ? Well mainly because it appeared on the Streamium as “popular” but also because I used to live in Lewes and felt some distant allegiance. Distant because I was only seven when I moved away.
What do I think of the station ? Well it was worth a listen. No annoying DJ chatter. They play an eclectic mix of musical styles including Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Elvis Costello, Amy Winehouse, Little Boots and…. well you see what I mean.
It’s great music to have playing while I am transferring all my files to my new works laptop. In their inimitable way they, work, have given me a great piece of kit with all the basic apps that everyone needs. However, in my role there are a number of specialised apps that are unique and so I have to install them myself. And there are the innumerable files that I have created over the last two or three years. That in itself is a voyage of discovery. There is an app supplied that does the transfer. I ran that last night, took around two hours. Trouble is it hid the files on the new machine because Microsoft has changed the file/folder names between Windows XP and Windows 7.
Kate Rusby on Radio Lewes, what a fabulous voice she has. Really tears at the heart strings.
Time to go and get something to eat. I hear eggy butties calling.
This is not new news. You only have to go in to the city anytime Pompey are playing at home. You see hoards of them marching towards Fratton Park.
Zombies take over Portsmouth’s streets in chilling film series – East Hampshire – The News.
Dentists are not my favourite people. I guess they probably aren’t at the top of anybodies list. Goes with the territory.
Today they dropped to an all time low in my estimation.
I was due to have a wisdom tooth extracted this morning. Having made the , long overdue, appointment. After much nagging from Gerry. I had prepared myself for the potential pain to come.
On arrival at the surgery I was informed that the dentist was on her way. They didn’t know where she was, but she was coming. So I sat in the waiting room.
Tick tock….Tick tock….. time passing slowly, not even the TV on to provide a distraction.
Then I am informed that the missing dentist has sent a text to the practice manager.
She’s in bloody Roumania. Nobody knew she was going. The surgery has a whole week of appointments, including mine, but no bloody dentist to service them.
So morning wasted.
I for one am pleased that the police in this country have access to Car Tax, MOT and Car Insurance Details and that this access is helping them to get dangerous and illegal cars off the roads.
However the experience of Lee-Ann Taylor has exposed a flaw in the system. A flaw that has left her £150 out of pocket.
The computer systems indicated that she was not insured even though she had taken out insurance the day before being stopped by the police. As they were not able to confirm her cover and she was not able to show documentary evidence her car was impounded. Hence the £150 fee to recover her car.
Now she is left with the police spokesperson suggesting that she see redress from her insurance company whilst the insurer is suggesting she chase up the police for a refund.
All because the computer systems are not real-time i.e. her insurance details went live 6 hours after she was stopped. Not entirely satisfactory.
Although you are warned not to keep your documents in your car ‘It would seem sensible to keep insurance documents or at least your reference number with you when driving.’
Question: What is absolutely certain to put a smile of your face ?
Answer: Spending time with your Grand Children and Great Grand Children
On Wednesday evening Claire (granddaughter) and Brooke (great-granddaughter) came visiting, stayed for dinner, and left us plum worn out. Brooke is a proper little dynamo.
She has more energy than the Duracell Bunny and likes to use your’s truly as a cushioned climbing frame or, on occasion, as a trampoline. Brooke is teething so tends to dribble a bit. At least that was the only reason for my shirt and trousers getting wet. This time.
On Sunday we met up with Keeley (granddaughter), Chris (grandson-in-law) and Summer (great-granddaughter). Summer is another little bundle of energy but being older she is a little more selective about how she expends it. Summer also has a secret smile.
The sort of smile that says “I know you are watching me and I have you right where I want you”
Young Summer decided that you don’t just eat an Eton Mess with a spoon. Oh No. What you do is pick out the meringue with your fingers. Then what you do is dunk it in Grandads custard. Methinks there is a dish missing from the kids menu.
Later on you would not believe how much fun can be had with a handkerchief playing ‘hide ‘n’ snatch’ and then having a ‘tug ‘o’ war’.
It only took us 30 mins to get home but apparently Summer was fast asleep before we got there.
After we settled down with a cup of tea we were ready to join her in the land of nod.
Whoops there goes another green field site in the Waterlooville area.
And once again the planners are letting the developer get away with squeezing houses into a greenfield site without worrying about what it will be like for both the new and the existing residents in the area.
This proposal is truly crazy. 340 Homes with only a single road access. A road that will link to what is already a very busy road. I can see that the new junction will be a place to avoid at peak times.
340 homes will mean at least 700 cars and where are the jobs to support the folks that will move in ?
Up to 340 homes could be built on Waterlooville farmland – Politics – The News.
And another article can be viewed HERE
Five men attack a policemen going about his business investigating criminal damage that they had perpetrated.
I hope the judge makes an example of them and gives them all custodial sentences.
Five men to stand trial over attack on Waterlooville police officer – East Hampshire – The News.
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