Younger son wanted me to join him on a bike ride this evening. Conscious that I am becoming very unfit I agreed albeit after a certain amount of hesitation since the pain in my hip has been quiet severe as of late.
Anyway I strapped my prosthesis well on, dosed myself up with some codeine to dull the inevitable pain and set off into the sunset.
Got down to the river when I noticed I had a flat tyre .....
Monday, 4 August 2008
Olympic Women's Beach Volleyball
For some unknown reason my 16 year old son wants to watch this. No idea why!
Will Labour step back from the edge?
No party can survive in power for very long if civil war breaks out within its ranks. Memories of the Conservatives tearing themselves apart over Europe in the 1990's are still very fresh within political circles and the consequences of that and the perceived corruption (I don't like the word "sleaze") was that 11 years of opposition occured.
Once ranks start to be broken - and I think Miliband has initiated that process - then there is a cascade effect as people start jockeying for position and any pretence of unity starts to disappear.
Brown has lost authority and hence, I suspect, that we are going to be watching his descent into political oblivion.
Once ranks start to be broken - and I think Miliband has initiated that process - then there is a cascade effect as people start jockeying for position and any pretence of unity starts to disappear.
Brown has lost authority and hence, I suspect, that we are going to be watching his descent into political oblivion.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Blue badge abuse
Just come back from a trip into town where I followed a car into a series of spaces reserved for blue badge holders. The only occupant, a middle aged lady, got out of the car, which had a blue badge, and walked off happily into the distance.
Why am I so cross? Well, stuck to the back of the car was a label: "Please leave plenty of space for my wheelchair"
Abuse of blue badges really pisses my off.
Why am I so cross? Well, stuck to the back of the car was a label: "Please leave plenty of space for my wheelchair"
Abuse of blue badges really pisses my off.
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Three Choirs
It's our turn now and the city is heaving - the Worcester festival is being run to coincide with it - with more tourists than I have seen for a very long time - foreign voices being very conspicuous around the streets.
I struggled my hip around the cathedral today with my son, even though large parts of it were roped off for the opening concert tonight. The new organ was in place looking and sounding magnificient.
I am an atheist but I still find that I am uplifted everytime I go into the cathedral, the spirits of those long dead masons, artisans and builders who built such a wonderful building on faith, civic pride still pervade. Unlike most buildings from the medieval times, the cathedral is still alive, still living, still part of the community from which it sprang all those years ago.
A sheep is not a creature of the air .....
"Another fair question. One thing is for sure; a sheep is not a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perchin'. (crash) As you see. As for flight, its body is totally unadapted to the problems of aviation. Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their heads, there's no shifting it. "
Friday, 1 August 2008
Priceless
There is a lovely letter in today's Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=A1&targetRule=0)
"Eau de stone age
Sir – Michael Stanford is fortunate that the best-before date of his cheddar is so far in the future (Letters, July 30). My supermarket sells bottled water which, if the adverts are to be believed, has taken millions of years to percolate through pristine rocks. However, the best before date is rarely more than a couple of months away. Luckily, they extracted and bottled it just in time. Andrew Wands, Crieff, Perthshire"
"Eau de stone age
Sir – Michael Stanford is fortunate that the best-before date of his cheddar is so far in the future (Letters, July 30). My supermarket sells bottled water which, if the adverts are to be believed, has taken millions of years to percolate through pristine rocks. However, the best before date is rarely more than a couple of months away. Luckily, they extracted and bottled it just in time. Andrew Wands, Crieff, Perthshire"
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