RIP Ravi. You opened my eyes, or perhaps I should say ears, to yet another musical treasure and left the world a huge legacy. Your collaborations with so many other musical stars has enriched the musical world. Your offspring, Anoushka and Nora are continuing the work that you started.
We will all miss you.
Awww that’s cute
Congratulations to my grandson on achieving his first byline for The Independent.
Well done Josh
As many of you know Radio Paradise is my station of choice to listen to when I am working. However, just once in a while it has an adverse effect and stops me from working. Well we just had one of those moments. Had to kick back, turn up the volume and close my eyes ….. They played the following tracks in succession…
Not the version played on RP but this is a great clip to watch.
Again, not the version played by RP but well worth watching as an intro to these guys.
Last Wednesday Raymond Elsmore, 82, suffered fatal injuries when he was hit by a car near the junction of Tempest Avenue and Cornelius Drive at about 3.05pm. Raymond was a well loved lollipop man, well known to the local community.
Mr Elsmore was on duty at the time and wearing his reflective uniform. The driver of the car, a 21-year-old female, was uninjured and was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.
I don’t know what the conditions were like when Raymond lost his life, nor do I know which direction the car that took his life was traveling. But it is possible that the low height of the sun could have been a contributing factor.
On Sunday afternoon, around 3 o’clock, I was traveling along Tempest Avenue coming from the Tesco’s store, heading towards the spot where all the flowers are laid. The sun was very low in the sky and directly in front of me i.e. appearing right in the middle of the road and I really couldn’t see the road ahead clearly. What I could just make out was a police car stopped in the road with its lights flashing. On the grass there was a policeman apparently taking photo’s of the police car. I started to indicate to pull round the police car and only at the last moment did I see that there was a police woman, in full reflective jacket, stood in the road with her hand up requesting me to stop. My point is that, even though I wasn’t traveling very fast, without the police cars lights I would not have been alerted to the possibility of someone being in the road.
Quite rightly there is a rising call for the council to make this road safer. They obviously saw the need for a lollipop man perhaps with Mr Elsmore’s tagic death they will seriously consider adding some traffic calming measures. This road is a rat run at all times of the day but becomes more so during the evening and morning commuter times.
Mr Elsmore’s death is a tragedy and my thoughts are with his family and friends.
Local residents have also created a website
‘Something has to be done on this dangerous road’ – Travel Latest – Portsmouth News.
Nancy really does hit the nail, firmly, on the head. I have been getting more and more frustrated by the feeding frenzy that is the media and their coverage of this tragic loss of life. I too feel for the family of Jacinta Saldhana and I too, feel for the two DJ’s who could not possibly have foreseen their prank leading to the death of this nurse. Many pranks carried out in all innocence could inadvertently lead to dire results. How many of us have sat and watched and laughed at the pranks performed on Candid Camera over the years. More recently there has been the “Elevator” prank perpetrated by the Brazilian TV Show. If ever there was the possibility of a tragic ending then that prank was a prime candidate. Yet, until now, we all would happily laugh at the discomfort of others, a bit of schadenfreude. How quickly we climb on our high horse and decry the actions of these two DJ’s. If it wasn’t for the publics appetite for this kind of entertainment they would not have initiated this prank.
What a sad world we live in.
All I can see on TV and hear on my radio at the moment is news about the tragic death of Jacintha Saldanha, the vilification of two, reasonably funny, radio DJ’s and the cooing over King Edward VII Hospital.
Firstly – before I transcend into a long over due Not Now Nancy rant I would like to say this. My heart BLEEDS for the family of Jacintha. Her children, her husband and other family. To lose someone so young is such a tragedy but to lose someone at this time of year, even more so.
It is of course no wonder that they are looking for someone to blame and, in the same circumstances, perhaps I would be aiming my guns in the same direction. But it is important in a situation like this to remember the facts.
The media. The good old British…
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Yes, Wow indeed. Definitely one to share.
What is this country coming too ?
There are mindless thugs out there who don’t think twice before attacking the elderly, the frail and the disabled
It makes me ashamed to think that there are such cowardly people walking the streets of this country, makes me ashamed to be English.
The News has recently reported this attack on a partially sighted man from Fareham.
Richard Twose, who is partially blind, was walking Bates near his home on Redlands Lane, Fareham, when he heard the dog yelp out in pain.
The 35-year-old told The News: ‘I’d been in the house all day so I felt guilty that I hadn’t walked Bates.
‘I decided to take him out for walk. That’s when I heard him yelp in pain.
‘I turned around and a split second later I was pushed into the fence and kicked in the stomach.’
There is no way that Richards attackers didn’t know that their victim was blind and the fact that they attacked his guide dog first says a lot about their mentality.
Someone out their knows who these cretins are. Do the right thing and hand them over to the police
Police are appealing for witnesses. If you can help, call PC John Cupper on 101.
Man and his guide dog beaten up in vicious unprovoked attack – Local – Portsmouth News.
Still on the subject of cowardly attacks, recently a man riding his mobility scooter was attacked …..
Thugs tried to rob a man riding a mobility scooter. The gang struck in Waterlooville, with one of the attackers brandishing a knife at the 61-year-old victim. But the disabled man punched the youth in the face before riding away to make his escape. The incident happened just before 4pm on Wednesday, November 21 at the junction of Mill Road and Novello Gardens.
Police said anyone with any information is asked to contact Det Con Smithers at Waterlooville Police Station on 101 or call the charity Crimestoppers line on 0800 555 111 where information can be left anonymously.
I would never advocate vigilantism but a part of me hopes that the attackers of these two victims are identified, and that they get their just deserts. I say this because my fear is that the punishment that they will receive at the hands of the courts will never match the hurt and trauma meted out to their victims.
Love it.
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