Him behind the wheel

now I am 66 I might just start getting outrageous. Joiners arrived today some 3 years and some weeks after starting the porch – this was a bit of a shock so may require large brandies tonight!

The past week has been over the top in this household.

I blame the Church of Scotland for having live feeds from the assembly hall for all their discussions (except the case).   The tension has been unbearable as we tried to work out where they were all coming from and did that decision mean the evangelical idiots were winning or losing.  By the end of the week we both needed to chill out and realise that although our church might get some of it wrong with ,perhaps, the best intentions it really was of little consequence to us as long as our minister preached on the inclusive love of god and the example of Jesus we could be quite content.  Still get hot under the collar when hearing some people claim that god got it wrong when he created ” gay” persons but pray that the light will eventually dawn.

B—– children   do they ever grow up and realise that the eldrly know best.  a quick nuke to gaza and the football public could mourn  or has he already died from alcohol poisoning?  mind you going that way rapidly myself  but am elderly so allowed

old lady is currently thru watching H.C. surely my rants must be more therapuetic than that?

well I have to say that the world of doom and gloom seems to be very far away from me.

The palastinians in Gaza are getting their just deserts for allowing rocket firing from their territory. They are not thinking of the children etc being injured and killed but only of the political pressure the rest of the world will put on Israel. Israel deserves to have secure frontiers and peaceful neighbours.  No one can expect that due to their history in the 29th century that they will tolerate the situation of a group of  people saying they should not exist even when those people have been elected.

Financial meltdown bah humbug my oap will increase by considerably more than inflation in April as the figures are taken from the autumn rate and by april it could well be almost negative.

Oh yes I might also get a sail on my sons boat.

YES it will be a good year!

In the past I have scoured the news pages, watched the 6pm and the 10pm news, worried myself sick and got very angry at many of the items covered. I am at present weaning myself off of such drivel and trying to absorb the headlines (radio 2) etc and then investigate in detail anything which interests me without getting too worked up about it.

A recent example has been the bin saga in Calderdale. It would appear from the local rag that the miscreant had been warned previously and had agreed to pay the fixed penalty. He was only taken to court when he failed to pay.

The real question ,however is the cost to the environment of each household having to take rubbish to recyclingfacilities rather than the local council being required as they were under the public health acts to remove all household rubbish as part of their local government remit.

Maybe I am going to start ranting again!

I have now spasmed my back three times in 9 weeks.

1. Early December while visiting my sister  pain killers from local quack and about a week’s discomfort.

2. 2nd February while visiting no1 son, visit to own quack on return – more painkillers and an anti-inflammatory (which caused havoc with the innards) but the option of having pins stuck in me was mentioned.

3. Sunday 10th February. This was the worst by a long shot so occasioned request to sadist to try sticking her needles in me. Tried to walk dog at 14.15hrs managed about 50 yards and then had to return to car. Proceeded to Drs where 14 pins were inserted in lower back, twirled twice ( I think) and removed after about 10 mins.  Gingerly left couch and walked outside  AND REALISED THAT I WAS WALKING NORMALLY.  Quite incredible only a slight discomfort remains  STRONGLY RECOMMEND.

This was the scene at the river bank this afternoon after a week of frost. The temp has hardly been above freezing for about a week and certainly stayed below for the last three days.

It is absolutely beautiful.

1.  Wendy Alexander has seemed to admit that she has ‘technically’ broken the law. I wnder what her punishment will be :- 30 days of first ministers’ questions?

2. Codes of guidance are drawn up by various bodies such as the Care Commission and the Scottish Social Services Council. Surely social work departments should follow these and not augment them to make their administration easy. Professional social workers are paid to make decisions surely – not to follow some slavish book of rules that cause damage to their clients.

The two situations are very different but both show a disregard for the intention of the legislation.

The above is the one and only apple on the new fruit tree this year.  The tree was a present from no3 son to his mother and was planted in late March 2007.  There was only the one flower that we saw and from it came this apple.  We should probably have taken it off at inception but decided to leave it expecting it to fall early.  It didn’t  it tasted lovely so we wait with eager anticipation for next year.

The very weekend that the clocks went back this photo was taken on Monday morning from the ‘Porch’ room thru’ the glass door.  No the porch is not finished yet.