“Pompey’s season hit a low as they crashed out of the FA Cup after a 3-1 loss at Brighton.”
Brightons win at the weekend has given me oodles of gloating rights, surrounded as I am by Pompey supporters. Down here where I live in Hampshire there is only one thing a Pompey supporter hates slightly less than a Southampton supporter and that’s a Brighton supporter.
I can take the hate …… So excuse me while I gloat away …….
“The Magical Adventures of Robin Hood”, currently being performed at the Glasgow Pavillion Theatre, are in trouble with the International Red Cross organisation. Specifically, they have contravened the Geneva Convention.
Some jobs-worth has dobbed the producers in to the authorities.
What, you may ask, has got the Red Cross all hot under the collar ? Apparently its the use of the Red Cross symbol
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on the uniform of Nurse Poultice, a character in the pantomime.
The following is a quote from a Red Cross spokesperson
“We have no desire to be the villains of the pantomime or to appear heavy-handed, but… the emblem is a special sign of neutrality and protection, recognised by all sides during armed conflicts.
“Misuse of that emblem – even when done in an innocent and light-hearted manner – has to be addressed. Repeated and widespread misuse of the Red Cross emblem could dilute its neutrality and its ability to protect.”
Well I’ve got news for you Mr. Spokesperson. “Mis-Use” of the emblem is rife in the UK kiddy community. For the princely sum of £2.99 you can go to a well-known internet retailer and obtain a nurses uniform that quite blatantly displays a red cross on the cap. Will the International Red Cross be sending “cease & desist” notices to all 3 -5 year olds who dare to flaunt their edicts.
And then there is Barbie. The little madam has even been known to don a nurses uniform, once again displaying the eponymous red cross logo. These items are widely available and I haven’t even mentioned the adult market place.
Yet the International Red Cross choose to go after a pantomime in Glasgow. Popular as it maybe with Jim Davidson top of the bill, the damage it would have done to the image of the Red Cross was negligible.
Until, that is, narrow-minded jobs-worths decided to stir up some unnecessary aggravation.
Presumably it is the same narrow mind that is being applied by ordering that ….. “Christmas has been banned by the Red Cross from its 430 fund-raising shops. Staff have been ordered to take down decorations and to remove any other signs of the Christian festival because they could offend Moslems.”
It is time to take a long hard look at the way our society is slowly being ground down by this kind of thinking. Slowly but surely the fun is being squeezed out of Britain. Everything that makes us smile is being displaced by the politically correct brigade, turning us into a grey society.
Good luck for tomorrow in your match against Pompey.
I’m not a footy supporter but I always relish the chance to wind up the Pompey supporters that surround me.
Make me proud.
I’m not a cricket fan but way to go the England Cricket Team.
Congratulations to all involved. Let the party commence.
And I’d like to thank the team for giving me the ammunition to really wind up my Australian rellies. On my many trips down under they have never given me any peace about how crap we are on the international sports stage.
Well now its pay back time.
A BLOKE walks into a brothel and says, ”I’m a bit kinky, how much for total humiliation?”
”$60,” the madam replies.
”Wow, what do I get for that?” the bloke asks.
”A baggy green cap and an Australia cricket shirt,” she says.
What kind of idiot sets out to vandalise a lifeboat. Something that they, remember they are on an island, may come to depend on.
I have replicated the police press release in its entirety.
Police are renewing an appeal for information after criminal damage was reported to a lifeboat on the Isle of Wight.
Vandals targeted Freshwater Independent Lifeboat’s 16ft inflatable inshore boat sometime overnight between Monday evening (December 27, 2010) and 9am on Tuesday morning (December 28, 2010).
The lifeboat, which was stored in a steel pen on the apron in front of a boathouse at Freshwater Bay, was found to have 17 holes in the side.
This damage is believed to have been caused deliberately. Police Community Support Officer PCSO Mike Thornton of the West Wight Safer Neighbourhoods team said: “This damage showed a complete lack of respect for members of our community who are dedicated to keeping us safe at sea. The vandals’ actions put the lives of the lifeboat crew at risk, and could have endangered someone else in need of a rescue.
“Several lines of enquiry continue to be pursued and I’m renewing an appeal for anyone with information to contact the police or Crimestoppers.
“We’re particularly keen to hear from people who were in or around Freshwater Bay last Monday night (December 27) or early Tuesday morning (December 28). The area is a popular place for fishermen and dog walkers.”
Please contact the West Wight Safer Neighbourhoods team at Yarmouth Police Station by phoning 101 or emailing westwight.snt@hampshire.pnn.police.uk
From outside Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, call the police on 0845 045 45 45.
Mini-Com users can call the police on 01962 875000.
Information can be given anonymously by calling the independent Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.
The Isle of Wight Community Safety Partnership has made a commitment to tackle anti-social behaviour reported by residents. For more information, go to http://www.saferwight.org.uk/antisocialbehaviour.aspx
For more information about the West Wight Safer Neighbourhoods team, go to http://www.hampshire.police.uk/Internet/localpolicing/isleofwight/west/2LWSNT6.htm
Just discovered that there will be a Census held March 27th, 2011. The official website is HERE
We are required by law to participate and apparently there will be 35,000 folks employed to make sure we do. There will even be officers out on the night of the Census to ensure anyone sleeping rough etc. is included !!!
We will be able to complete it online, for the very first time, which is a huge step forward.
Also we will be able to claim that we are English rather than British…Hooray !!!
On Sunday morning my neighbour decided to trim back the hedge that separates our properties. That in and of its self is not a problem. However, nary a word did she say to either me or my wife before coming on to our property and starting this hatchet job. The hedge doesn’t belong to us, is not on our property but we have grown used to its presence. I did go out and talked with her about her plans. I asked her not to take it down any lower and agreed that I would cut down the thicker trunks that she couldn’t handle.
I also warned her that she shouldn’t cut back the sides of the hedge too much as it won’t grow back. Our side has only just about recovered after a severe trim by a “professional”. We still have a brown section after 2-3 years of regrowth. To be honest this photo is after I have taken down some of the thicker trunks that she couldn’t handle. So it’s looking a lot tidier than she left it and I’ve yet to attack the last few trunks.
She has totally trashed a perfectly good hedge. It is higher on our side than on hers and she has trimmed back the face of the hedge, on her side, way too much. She had started on our side when I advised her not to remove any more due to the reluctance of conifers to grow back.
My view is that she has basically killed the hedge and that it will probably never recover. On that basis I believe that it should be taken out completely.
That will be a shame as, for many years, we have enjoyed the privacy provided by that hedge. As she is only a tenant, doesn’t own the property, I am considering contacting the agents to express my dissatisfaction with this situation. I don’t want to fall out with her but this is tantamount to vandalism.
Well today the view is not good as its been raining all day. I probably won’t be nipping outside to have a quiet coffee sat at the table.
Haven’t seen any squirrels. Mind you the local squirrel population is decreasing thanks to my neighbours cats. They have had two in the last few weeks. The only positive thing I can say about that is that they don’t just kill for sport. The little black devils actually eat what they kill. It’s not as if they are hungry, I know that they are well fed. Seems like they have gotten a taste for fresh meat.
As well as a lack of squirrels I also haven’t seen many birds today. The ever-present Robin is about, protecting his territory, but no sign of the usual tits and finches.
I guess they are all doing the sensible thing and staying home and watching day time television.
As for me well I’m working from home with Lovers Touch, by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, streaming off the internet from Radio Paradise.
Oh well back to work.
Posted this over 2 hours ago. Suddenly the sun has come out. Do you suppose my post was read by the big fella ?
A true Friend doesn’t care if you’re broke, being a pain,
what you weigh, if your house is a mess, what you drive,
about your past, or if your Family is filled with CRAZY people.
Your conversations pick up where they left off
even if they have been Months apart.
They love you for who you are.
Facebook in the news again. This time it’s not their fault.
A woman, Simone Back, posts her suicide note on Facebook. Updates her status to ‘Took all my pills be dead soon bye-bye everyone.’ and according to the press not one of her 1,048 “friends” tried to stop her. Apparently some of these so-called friends even posted sickening spiteful messages in response.
Her devastated mum wants to know why no-one helped her.
Well the sad fact is that these people are referred to as friends but they aren’t. What they really are is “contacts”, “acquaintances”, maybe even colleagues. The sad fact is that very few of these contacts should truly be called friends.
This sad story is just an indication of the anti-social trend that is seeping into our society. Our technologically connected world is hailed as the new utopia. A world where everyone knows what everyone is doing before they even do it.
Facebook is referred to as a social network website. I believe that whilst there are many good aspects to Facebook and their ilk they can rapidly become an antisocial network. They have put a friendly face to computers and the internet. Encouraged us to stay at home, socialise from afar. Mobile phones are having the same effect. You only have to people watch a group of teenagers walking down the street. They aren’t talking to each other. But each one of them is likely to be holding a phone with their thumbs going nineteen to the dozen, texting.
Maybe they are texting each other ???
The sad fact is that the nosey parker in us wants to know whats going on but do we really care. Patently, according to this story, we don’t.
WrAnTz 