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Observations on Life - page 2
Saturday 28th June 2008 onwards
SPORT
I love music, although opera frightens me a bit. I love drama and love the theatre. Serious thought, however, prompts me to suggest to all, even those somewhat academic friends, that the true preventer of further global wars has been/is sport. One can malign the awful influence of money, but no worse than our wondrous global media who have now mainly "written" us into a disastrous recession, but the fact remains that a large number of normal people, from wherever, love sport and it has brought us together like nothing else.
Watching Wimbledon today, some 20 years on from, e.g., the Iron Curtain, one sees all the Countries so feared of old represented there, not only as players, but in the audience too.
Thus, forgetting the tiny, tiny, percentage of nutters, who seem hell bent on wrecking what is left of the nice World, I commend sport to everyone! Don't knock it, it works!! Dare I say it, sending a combined World "gunboat" of old to wipe out the 00.006% seems an eminently sensible plan but I suppose the "do gooders" and "PC'ers" would have me strung up. Well...up them, before it is too late!
AMY WINEHOUSE - GLASTONBURY - 28th June 2008
Pah! If that is what modern youth yearns to be, we've had it. She should be shot, nay too nasty, put down! What an example to spread over the news to our youngsters, that media again. And don't say I should be sorry for her................Hurrumph.
Andy Murray - not my own wit but seen 30th June '08:-
"Is Andy Murray Gordon Brown's love child"? - he must seriously lighten up to be anywhere as near popular as old Tim. Credit due in his match today though.
The odd snap can always surprise....and amuse
Vicky, our daughter, took this in our garden in June 08 and fully reveals the effect on my weight and the need for braces! However, when studied, it did have the look of hillbillies from the 1930's so I put it into old sepia type style and it has amused many, not least us. The horses, plough and Blue Mountains are just out of picture!
and just to show how unflattering the above is to Sheila, the real Sheila is here:-
Sadly, I look the same as the Hill Billy one!
Those Americans!
Thanks to Laura, a great friend. Stannah eat your hearts out!
DAILY TELEGRAPH 8th July 2008
Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 08/07/2008
Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.
The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
WHAT UTTER TOSH!
OUR NEW "PET" NOIR
Around November last year, we began being raided at night by a black cat who came in during the evening and night and ate our cats' food. It was aggravating and frustrating too as we tried everything from shutting ours in, shutting the black cat out, shouting, cupfuls (have checked and find spelling very odd) of water and so on. But "Blackie" stuck to his/her guns and was always hovering at night. One evening, during late May we let it come up to us and it seemed very young and very brave. Our two were wary of it so it was a difficult situation. 
Over the next few weeks, we took it up with the Cats Protection League, tried posters on trees and so on. During this period, "Blackie" became more and more at home and was proving a delightful jet black, yellow eyed, very young new pet. The yellow eyes do unnerve Naps though! It developed to all three sleeping in our bedroom so we have given up and had it fully checked at the Vets and all is well and the CPL are delighted that we have decided to take it on board. So are Tesco's as the cat food bill has soared!
Thus, as we already have a Wellington and Napoleon, and the Vet has confirmed it is a very young, neutered, black male, we have a new boy on the block - Nelson!! As regards our two boys, Cato of Clouseau fame, springs to mind. They never know when he is going to jump them! but means it only in fun. He was dressed all in black too.
How did he become a stray? He is a really nice young cat, very affectionate, tad too playful for our "old" boys but delightful and so brave to have stuck it out and got his feet under the (our) table. Did he stray, was he left on a move, was he just deserted; who knows but a little odd? He has survived, at around a year and a half, all on his own and he deserves the love and company he will now get.
FOLLOW UP 21st August 2008
He is certainly ours now and, while some suspicions remain, we seem to be getting there. Hence:-
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