Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Serif ask you for suggestions for further improvement on their products while you wait for ages on the phone to talk to them. Well here’s a suggestion - a further improvement to your product would be to support the programmes you sell us!! I just phoned Serif because I could not find in the resource manual, the user guide or on the website how to do something relatively simple on their publishing programme, so I phoned, only to be told that they only support the newest version!! So I guess they want to sell it to me. That really pisses me off. Very poor service Serif – not good enough, then I waited 7 minutes to see how much an upgrade would cost so I could get the support they should offer, but after 7 minutes of waiting I gave up!
Its rant day today. I really feel that doctors (not my sister of course!) should change their oath from the Hippocratic Oath, to the Hypocritical Oath because sure as hell they are no longer interested in helping people. John, one of my staff, had a stone fly up and hit his eye, so rather than taking him 12 miles to the local A+ E, and taking into consideration that we are asked in TV adverts not to go to A + E unless it is an emergency, I phoned my local doctors, because John’s GP is a good half hour drive away, and asked if they could just check his eye. We thought that if it needed attention then we would go to A + E, but if it just needed a check-up, it would take minutes and be relatively easy to do. Wrong! firstly he would have to be temporarily registered, then they suggested A+E (obviously have not seen the government advertising campaign!). Then we had to wait for a doctor to phone – then they took his details, and then another phone call from them,(by the time they had done this they could have looked at his eye about ten times!) and they suggest he goes to A +E, and anyway they don’t have the equipment to look at his eye!!!! So my local doctors don’t have an ophthalmoscope???!!! I have got a bloody ophthalmoscope for heaven’s sake! It’s such a shame that doctoring is not what it used to be. I can remember where they actually cared…………. Although to be fair, the number of people who go and take up their time for a common cold, or other unnecessarily stupid things that do not need attention is probably one of the reasons why it has happened. 
A friend of mine just sent me an email about three Rhino’s that have just been poached and had their horns cut off one was dead, two were alive, but one not likely to survive. So their horns were cut off while they were living……………. Read on……………….
True story from that friend.
“I was at Sworders auction of Taxidermy a few months ago with a dealer friend. We were standing at the front, out of the way in a side cubby hole. A little Chinese man asked if he could stand in front of us. We said yes--he’s about 5 foot +1. He gets out his mobile. The Auctioneer very politically incorrectly berates the local travelling community for ram raiding his state of the art showroom the night before , causing a phenomenal amount of damage ----in order to nick a Rhino Horn, price guide at £10,000 for one.
They only stole one, out of seven listed for Auction. The auction eventually gets to the rhino horns
Little Chinese person perks up, the bidding goes ballistic between a telephone bidder and our little friend standing in front of us, It gets to £55000--our man wins! So including VAT and commission our boy has spent £70000---ON ONE RHINO HORN. And there are SIX more... Everyone the same, he buys the bloody lot !!! Over £400000 from one Chinese so all his mates can keep their peckers in prime condition, so that is why the poor Rhinos that Laura cared for had their horns hacked off.........”
I guess my own thoughts on this are three fold – 1.Men - what is their problem and why do they think that we care how long they can perform. 2. What is wrong with Viagra if they really have to believe that longevity is desirable. 3. Chop the offending parts off the poachers and those who buy from them, and solve the problem!
We have decided to bury Ruby in the flying field near one of the mounds that she used so well, we will put a stone in the grass, she should be where she loved the best.
The puppies are having a riotous game between the hall and my office, my office looks like a bomb has hit it with all their toys and the various bits of chewed basket decorating the floor!
Monday, 12 March 2012
The downside of having animals and birds is that on occasion the inevitable happens and they die. We lost Ruby yesterday. She had been ill about a month ago but had recovered well and was very cheerful in the lovely spring sunshine that we have been having. But about four days ago she slipped back again, and on Sunday morning she quietly died. We are pretty sure that it was heart failure, she was coming up for 12 years old which is very old for a Burrowing Owl, considering their lifespan in the wild is probably not much more than two to three years, but that aside, what a gap she leaves, we will miss her enormously and her aviaries stands silent. I will even miss the huge holes she dug all over the floor of it.
We also lost another owl yesterday, but that was in the mislaid sense. Darcy Spice decided that he was going to misbehave, he has not liked the field since we cut down the trees at the bottom so that we can let them regrow and then have a nicely laid hedge. So yesterday he flew up into one of the beech trees by the upper pond – and stayed there – for about five hours!!! He is back now, although I have no idea how, I went out well after dark and nearly got him back, but he moved to the little wood, and so I got up at 5.30am to go and see if he felt like coming down and blow me there was a note from Simon on the gate, he was back, now that was cheering to get up for! Of course the dogs were delighted to see me that early as it meant they got fed early!
The field is full of wild daffodils and they are all coming out now, the weeping willows by the large pond are showing green and there is a faint green tinge to many of the trees and hedges now, which is wonderful to see.
The puppies are demolishing my log basket, they are at the teeth onto anything stage, although they did try chewing the big metal statue of the eagle that is residing in my hall at the moment and that slowed them down a bit.
I watched the early news this morning and they were talking about the new legislation on housing for hens, it was made illegal to keep hens in tiny cages at the beginning of this year. The cages are now much larger and supposedly better for the hens, it was an EU Directive, and guess what – the UK put it into place immediately and 13 countries, which is one under half of all the countries in the EU, have not!!! Well there is a surprise!! In fact I am surprised that 14 actually have, and I am not sure I even believe it. But it does go to show just how completely out of touch the European Parliament is with the countries that it supposedly represents. Did they really think that most of the countries were going to comply!! Are they nuts? Most could not afford it, and most could not care less! Our Government should immediately implement a ban on the import of eggs from any country known not to comply, otherwise not only will they have cost our farmers a fortune in having to comply, but they will put them out of business because those not complying will be charging less. The sooner we leave the EU the better!!
Thursday, 8 March 2012
It’s amazing, I appear to have another puppy, and I didn’t even go and look for one, not even really wanted one, particularly as we are hoping to have puppies from Sorrel later this year!! The lady who bred Sorrel phoned us up and said she had an offer I could not refuse, and apparently she was right. So on Saturday we went to look at another horse, who turned out to be huge and not what I needed, and came home with a Labrador puppy, she is called Shasta, which is a Michaelmas Daisy. She is a bear of a puppy, Leaf was a little concerned about her to start with, however that did not last and they are firm friends and playmates now. We were all sitting in the café a couple of days ago and discussing why puppies have such delicious bare tummies and Ben said it is to make them predator proof – the vicious predator arrives the puppy rolls over onto its back, exposing its delicious tummy and the predator says - aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, and rubs the puppy’s tummy, and all is well!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We thought it was a great theory!
The baby Tawny eagle is now safely back with our African Fish Eagles, the first attempt did not succeed, but the second one did, and the chick is now being beautifully cared for. This is just wonderful, because not only does it mean that the chick is being reared by an eagle, but it means that we will have a sound breeding pair of fish eagles for next year. We have also hatched a new species for us, two baby Grey Buzzard Eagles, the pair belong to a friend, and we are delighted that they settled and laid this year, the chicks are most definitely buzzards though!! They are quite different from an eagle chick! They are both doing well and we hope to get them back with the parents once they are a little older. Both pairs of Griffon Vultures have laid as well, so breeding is looking interesting so far!
Next we start to get the smaller birds going, at least two of the Merlins will come back on line, and a couple of the older Lanners. Sidewinder is just about behaving himself now and Anabelle is getting Moccasin her Spectacled Owl going, Adam is getting his going, and Harley has joined the team again.
The Education room is now closed and all the stuff down, painting has begun, you will never guess the colour – you are right of course – Magnolia! The plaster board for the ceiling is coming the week after next – we have a five day course next week, and we hope to get all the ceiling done and painted, the walls painted and the staining done by the end of that week.
Oh and I finally have a new bed, I have been wanting one for a while and so ordered one online with Oak Furniture Land on January 16th. The first bed late January, but when we unpacked it the wood was very mouldy and I mean Very mouldy! – I phoned them and asked them to send me some stuff to get rid of the mould, but no, they wanted to take the bed back and replace it. So about ten days later bed number 2 arrived, we unpacked it and it was quite badly broken. So I phoned, moaned, and sent photos again and so after about 12 days bed number 3 arrived, very pretty, a nicer colour than the first two, very little mould (there was actually mould on every bed) nothing broken, but sadly the side pieces did not fit together as they were not the same parts of the bed. So I phoned again, I refused to spend time taking photos this time, and on the Sunday I was annoyed enough to email them and tell them that not only were they this time going to check the bed over, they were going to put it together and they were going to give me a mattress to go with it as an apology. Finally, after over ten days of waiting on my birthday the fourth bed arrived, was in one piece, went together and I slept in it. Phew – what a palaver!!
Friday, 2 March 2012
March did not come in like a lion, and hopefully will stay pretty lamblike all the way through, in fact it crept in quietly and dignifiedly, with a heavy mist all over the countryside until about midday, when finally the sun came out. It has been the most glorious weather, and unseasonally warm, but great to be out in. It’s been a busy week, we had a visit to Cardiff University on Tuesday, Linda, Holly and I went to see Hayley and the team who have been doing a project with us for their exams, they have been working on social media and came up with a first class report, it was an interesting morning. Then ironically we had a PR meeting organised here that evening, which also went very well and everyone came up with some good ideas, some of which have already been put in place, my team here don’t let the grass grow under their feet for long. We now have the basis for a Sponsorship Tree, which is going to be rather special. Holly stole the idea from Twycross Zoo and John has put it into practice. The silhouettes of some of the birds are now on the back of Mozart’s aviary and look excellent, now I have to do some artwork for them, just have to remember how Drawplus works. That is one of the problems with software, unless you use it very regularly you forget what you managed to learn about it. The Hawk Walk extensions are just about finished, and looking very good.
The hedge at the bottom of the field is all down and cleared, the stumps will sprout over the next year and then we will lay it in probably three years and it will look super. It really has opened up the field. Mike came and did the final tidying with the digger, so the wood is looking great, and the hedge-line and the back of the pond just wonderful.The new White-tailed Sea-eagle is coming on a treat, she is very well mannered and already on demonstration. SideWinder (Burrowing Owl) is coming back into work, as is Pan, and Delectable, although she is not behaving as we would like as yet! Sadly we lost the African Fish Eagle Eggs, but I am hoping that they have taken the baby Tawny Eagle and will rear it for us, which would be perfect if they will, its always a stressful time for Simon putting babies back with unknown parents, so fingers crossed.
Wednesday we all went to Sally’s for her birthday, at it is on February 29th she is now 12 years old!! I had to take Leaf, who was completely unphased by the whole thing and had a whale of a time particularly when she discovered the beanbag seat, which she thought was perfect. Then on Thursday we had a bird staff meeting, for which I have to do the minutes, but today has been manic. I had a meeting with Lynda about the Gladiator Weekend we are going to do in August, then Anna the girl who has bought Mollie came and we boxed her up and I took her to her new home. Flew a few birds, had another meeting about a boiler, flew the rest of the birds, checked all gates were shut and helped Richard load his trailer with logs and then did the ironing!! So I have a ton of office work to do and I am going out tomorrow morning for three hours!! I am going to have to get it all done soon.Next project is the IZone!! The refurbish of the Education Room now to be called the IZone, the ceiling is first, that is going to happen the week after next, then things start to move on, so the Education Room is now closed for about six weeks as we get it done.
The wild daffodils are coming out and the wild birds have been singing away all week, spring is such a special time.
Oh and I know the Mozart Chapter was wrong – its been fixed!
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Last week I had to catch a train on my way to London at an unfashionable hour for an early meeting for the Hawk and Owl Trust. It started at 9.30am, which for me means a very early start to feed and take out the dogs and feed the horse before leaving. The only upside being that the traffic going into Gloucester was almost nil, so I made the train in good time. However I had forgotten just how awful it is to get on a very crowded tube train, I nearly chickened out, but realised that I would only have to get onto one just as full if I did.I have an impressive black eye! Karis decided to miss the overhead pass and fly at full tilt into my face, thank goodness he is OK, does not seem to have suffered, but we are giving him a couple of days off before flying him again!
Leaf is growing very fast, she runs all the way down to the café at coffee and lunch time now, and does not ask to be picked up. It has warmed up a little so it is safe to let her out and she is going to be pretty easy to house train I think. Of course as she gets older and stronger she also plays for longer, so life gets interesting in the evenings. Sedge is beginning to play with her and Sorrel is just wonderful, so gentle, although it is a little odd to see Leaf with her whole head inside Sorrel’s mouth.
It was half term week and we were nicely busy with visitors which is lovely to see, the weather so far has been kind, although I am told it is going to get colder again. Its good when the Centre is busy. We had our last Owl Evenings until Halloween the weekend before last, they went well, although on the Saturday night it was -5C by the time we were flying the owls outside!! That made sitting on the benches a little chilly I have to say, but the clear sky and stars made for a magical experience and all had a great time. Talking of owls Ruby frightened us a few days ago, she was not looking well so we brought her in, gave her some fluids and put her on a course of antibiotics, but by the afternoon we were not hopeful, and she is 11 years old this year, however by the evening she thought she might be able to toy with a chick to eat, I put the heating on in the Utility room and she stayed in her box in there for about four or five days, she recovered well and is back out in her aviary again and we were all very relieved.
The breeding season is upon us and Simon has hatched the first baby – a Tawny Eagle, who will stay with us if all goes well. We do have one difficulty, a wild Common Buzzard keeps trying to pair up with one of our captive ones, she is always around the aviary block causing trouble. We did have an interesting thought, she is on view to the public and therefore in terms of the British legislation we are benefitting commercially from her! But we have no paperwork – what a dilemma!
The extension to the top middle lawn in the Hawk Walk had kites on it for the first time and Mark is now struggling with the lower middle lawn – not that I am sympathetic as they wanted to do it!! I told Mark that I hoped that next winter we would have no projects, he did not believe me, I am not sure that I believe myself! Next will be the benches round the walnut tree and then we start to get ready for the various celebrations for our 45th anniversary, which is exciting.Soon I will have to tell you about the bed saga, it’s a corker!! But in the meantime………………
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened
by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A SPANISH CORPORATION
You have 2 cows but owe Santander for 6.
Nobody drinks milk.
You have a siesta and read about the collapse of the Euro
A GREEK CORPORATION
You lease 2 cows and pay somebody 3 times the going rate to milk them using borrowed money.
You refinance the 4 cows to secure the services of Goldman Sachs. They sell the future milk
production of the 60 cows and fund your lifestyle.
You retire to anywhere that doesn’t use the Euro.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad but awfully nice.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN ARGENTINIAN CORPORATION
You don't have any cows.
But you claim sovereignty over the ones belonging to your neighbour
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened
by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A SPANISH CORPORATION
You have 2 cows but owe Santander for 6.
Nobody drinks milk.
You have a siesta and read about the collapse of the Euro
A GREEK CORPORATION
You lease 2 cows and pay somebody 3 times the going rate to milk them using borrowed money.
You refinance the 4 cows to secure the services of Goldman Sachs. They sell the future milk
production of the 60 cows and fund your lifestyle.
You retire to anywhere that doesn’t use the Euro.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad but awfully nice.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN ARGENTINIAN CORPORATION
You don't have any cows.
But you claim sovereignty over the ones belonging to your neighbour
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
I just watched the news and when I watch politicians answering questions I feel that actually their only real talent is to completely avoid the question and never admit culpability. It pisses me off that the Opposition, in this case the Labour Government, constantly moans and bitches about the financial cuts without ever accepting that they were the cause for running the country into the ground in the first place. Britain, amazingly, appears to be still reasonable OK in terms of our credit worldwide, particularly in comparison to most of the countries on the Continent, and it is mainly because we are actually facing up to our debts and our existing government is trying to mitigate them.
We went to the Spring Fair yesterday – exhausting!! But I think we have found some really nice stuff for the shop this year, now we have the fun of waiting for it to arrive and the less fun of paying for it! The cold persists, the birds are flying well, my staff are as amazing as ever, Angela is going to do oven chips in the café and they are rather good, we have of course been testing them. Come and say hello everyone. Oh and I hope you are all enjoying Mozart’s Story.
The Dog's Diary:
8:00 am - Dog food! My favourite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favourite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favourite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favourite thing!
12:00 pm - Milk bones! My favourite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favourite thing!
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favourite thing!
5:00 pm - Dinner! My favourite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favourite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favourite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favourite thing!
The Cat's Diary:
Day 983 of my captivity.
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet. Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates my capabilities. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. Jerks!
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released, and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded. The bird must be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now.
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Its snowing, so the forecast was right for a change, and as the ground is frozen it is settling, although I have to say I doubt we will get four inches. We were wondering why some snowflakes are really small and some are huge, most of these are really small, is it to do with the temperature, or what I wonder. Adam just flew Cool ground, the snowy owl in the snow which was fun, although it is a little cold to stay out in the flying field for long. I had to go to Yorkshire on Thursday, drove up with Anabelle and we went straight to Duncombe Park where we are starting a branch of the ICBP, Charlie was working away doing fencing around the tree protection areas. The planning conditions have come through, I have to say that Charlie is a lot nicer to the planners than I would be, particularly as there are a whole load of conditions that they did not refer to prior to the month late discussion of the planning application. They are insisting on a yearly Bat survey, although they have a letter from the most respected raptor scientist in the world telling them that our birds will not affect the bats, they have been told that we have an increasing populations of bats living on site at the Centre here in Newent although we fly upwards of 40 birds daily, often into the evenings and then do owl evenings as well. They do no bat surveys nor does Natural England on the sites that they own or run, or on our site in the past, but they have asked us to do it, which I have to say considering the letter from Professor Ian Newton which told them that the bats were quite safe, shows how very ignorant they are; in terms of what I have told them about our bat colony here, is sheer stupidity; and taking into consideration that they don’t do surveys themselves is sheer hypocrisy! However Charlie is much nicer than I am and so will probably not tell them this!!
I did a lecture in the evening for the Yorkshire Group of the BFC, what a nice bunch of people and they were really interesting in our starting the Yorkshire branch of ICBP at Duncombe Park. So hopefully they will get involved and be a part of it which would be great. Richard came up to look at the electrics on the site at Duncombe. Its amazing how busy Helmsley is, we had some lunch there and it is literally a 15 minute walk from the middle of the town to where our site is going to be.
We met the guy who hopefully will build the three larger barns for us, so he has gone away to do some paperwork and sums and then that will move onwards, its all exciting stuff. It was bloody cold up there, but not as cold as it was as we drove home. The temperature slowly dropped until as we drove through the gate at home it was -5C. Although we were lucky to get home because the suspension in the Range Rover started to fail on the M42 and we crawled home, I don’t think I have ever spent that long in the slow lane of a motorway!!!
We were held up on the M1 just at the M62 interchange, I thought it was weight of Friday traffic – was it hell, it was because there was an accident on the OTHER carriage way and people were slowing down and gawping. Whoever you were, you are disgusting and despicable! The police despise that sort of behaviour and rightly so, the ambulance and fire people rightly loath it, it causes accidents, it makes people late for appointments, costs thousands of us in an unnecessary queue extra money on fuel, so why do you do it, it’s disgraceful, if you were a vulture you would at least have an excuse, but for a supposedly intelligent creature, there is no excuse.
When I got home and started to catch up on the endless emails I found one from a website who wants me to pay to be on there and they can’t even spell correctly on their damn site!!! You really do wonder sometimes.
Holly looked after the dogs while I was away for the night and the puppy behaved, still don’t have a name that is right for her yet, and this cold weather means she can’t go outside, but she is enchanting when she plays with Sedge who is being very good with her.
Still snowing!!.........................
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