Lots of lack of warm, much less atmospheric movement, loads
of frozen skywater and limitless amounts of lack of solar stuff at the Castle
this morn, didn’t post yestermorn because of a “medical emergency”: his Maj
decided to test out Newton’s law of plummeting fruit and fell out of the master
bedroom window, he landed OK but smashed his face on a stone pot on the way
dahn-blood, snot and drool in bucket loads.
Worried that he might have broken
his jaw I got him dahn the Vets for a check up, and apart from a bloody nose and
a “painkiller jab” he survived, and after giving the nice man £36 we went home
and spent the day sleeping on the four-poster.
This morn he is eating, doing his business and chasing
invisible things around the garden, and apart from a slight limp from the jab
is just about back to his “normal” self.
And Lovely Blogger has finally sorted out the IE picture
upload thingy.
As he rambled on about Gord knows what with a bit about the
EU and the next election, problem is I phased out after about three minutes and
went to make a cup of coffee.
Anyone know what he actually said-or meant?
Is that five multinational company’s control 90 per cent of
the world’s grain trade, charities called for fresh action to crack down on tax
avoidance by global corporations, claiming that the lives of 230 young children
could be saved every day if firms paid their proper dues in the nations where
they operated.
The new campaign challenges U-Turn Cam to take the lead in
championing measures to stop tax-dodging by companies, prevent farmers from being
forced off their land and ensure western nations live up to their promises on
aid.
More than 100 charities and faith groups led by Oxfam have
formed the largest coalition of its kind since the Make Poverty History
campaign eight years ago. They are being backed by the billionaire
philanthropist Bill Gates and civil rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Allegedly five multinationals – ADM, Bunge, Cargill,
Glencore and Louis Dreyfus – control all but ten per cent of the world’s grain
supplies.
Leading ‘academics’ have told Patrick McLoughlin, the
Transport Secretary that pay as you drive road charging should be introduced to
tackle congestion and cut carbon emissions.
In an open letter they warned that ploughing more money into
Britain’s road network will only generate more traffic.
Signed by 32 leading transport academics including Prof.
David Banister of Oxford University and Prof. Peter Mackie of Leeds, the letter
called for a radical rethink of strategy by Whitehall.
Here we go again, a load of tossers that exist in their
ivory towers in a city that hates motors think they know how to save the world
by pricing motorist’s orf the road.
There are many solutions, one of which is to charge “normal”
road tax for the first car registered at an address, charge double for the
second car, triple for the third and so on, this would make people think twice
about stocking up on transport and may even reduce the piss poor parking
problems we all suffer from both at home and out and about.
Hundreds of Chinese factory workers angry about strictly
timed bathroom breaks and fines for starting work late held their Japanese and
Chinese manager’s hostage for a day and a half before police broke up the
strike.
About 1,000 workers at Shanghai Shinmei Electric Company
held the 10 Japanese nationals and eight Chinese managers inside the factory in
Shanghai starting Friday morning until 11.50 p.m. Saturday, said a statement
from the parent company, Shinmei Electric Co., released Monday.
It said the managers were released uninjured after 300
police officers were called to the factory.
A security guard at the Shanghai plant said Tuesday that
workers had gone on strike to protest the company's issuing of new work rules,
including time limits on bathroom breaks and fines for being late.
"The workers demanded the scrapping of the ridiculously
strict requirements stipulating that workers only have two minutes to go to the
toilet and workers will be fined 50 Yuan ($8) if they are late once and fired
if they are late twice," said the security guard, surnamed Feng.
Good for them, especially the more mature workers as it can sometimes
take more than two minutes just to “get going” when one is an old fart...
Three thieves who
tried to burgle a shop had to abandon the raid - when their getaway donkey made
too much noise.
The trio had to
ditch their ill-gotten gains in the early hours break-in in Colombia after the
donkey started braying and alerted police.
The group had
stolen rum, oil, rice, cans of tuna and sardines from a shop in the tiny town
of Juan de Acosta, reports Noticias Caracol.
They planned to
load the goods onto ten-year-old donkey Xavi, which they had stolen earlier,
and make their escape.
But it let out a
series of 'hee-haws' and the trio decided to ditch the animal, which was still
carrying the stolen items, and make good their escape.
Shop owner Fabio
Orozco said: "They came through the roof to rob. They took rum, rice,
everything."
The donkey was
detained in the town police station for 12 hours until owner Orlando Olivares
was notified and came to collect him.
Better than a burglar alarm, and it mows the lawn as
well....
A new craze has emerged-getting naked in the snow, it all
started when care worker Leanne Myers, 40, stripped to her undies to pose for a
picture playing guitar in the snow with 25-year-old neighbour Danielle Smith.
In a bid to cheer up workmates Leanne posted the
picture on a Facebook page she set up called “Wiltshire, let’s get naked in the
snow!”
She also invited friends to strip off for their own
goose-bump photos in the snow - and 250 people have taken up the challenge in
just three days.
Leanne, from Durrington, Wilts, said yesterday: “It
is totally amazing, I really had no idea it would take off like this.
“People have really embraced it, and a lot of the
pictures are of friends of friends, but now there’s some coming in from people
I don’t know.
“I’ve had interest from Abu Dhabi and America and
people messaging me saying ‘we’re not in Wiltshire, can we send in a pic?’
“They are welcome from anywhere, as long as they
are kept tasteful.”
Bugger, knew there would be a snag...
Some 27 metric tons of
flaming brown cheese (Brunost), a Norwegian delicacy, blocked off a three-km
(1.9 mile) tunnel near the northern coastal town of Narvik when it caught fire
last Thursday. The fire was finally put out on Monday.
"This high concentration
of fat and sugar is almost like petrol if it gets hot enough," said Viggo
Berg, a policeman.
Brown cheese is made from
whey, contains up to 30 percent fat and has a caramel taste.
"I didn't know that
brown cheese burns so well," said Kjell Bjoern Vinje at the Norwegian
Public Roads Administration.
He added that in his 15 years
in the administration, this was the first time cheese had caught fire on
Norwegian roads.
That looks something like my toilet deposit this morn, mind
you if a bakers van crashed into it they could have Norwegian rarebit....
And finally:
A stinking cloud of
gas has been hanging over large areas of England after a leak at a French
chemical plant, sparking thousands of calls to emergency services.
The sulphurous
stench - likened to rotten eggs - is said by officials to be completely harmless.
But police in Kent,
Sussex and Surrey began to receive floods of calls from concerned residents on
Tuesday morning - and by afternoon there were reports of the unwelcome whiff in
Oxfordshire and as far north as Northampton.
The gas, called
mercaptan, was accidentally leaked from a factory in the northern city of Rouen
and before long had drifted over the English Channel.
It is sometimes
added to natural gas to alert people to gas leaks
The National Grid,
which would normally deal with up to 10,000 calls countrywide in a day, had
received an "unprecedented" 100,000 calls by 2pm.
The stench was
reported as far north as Northamptonshire
Sussex Police said:
"The smell is from an additive to the gas which has an unpleasant aroma
but is not toxic and there is no danger to the public."
The Health
Protection Agency (HPA) said the gas
had diluted since entering the air over England, and, although it may cause
some people to feel slightly sick, it will dispel naturally.
I blame the French obsession with garlic...
That’s it: I’m orf to get some
privacy visors
And today’s thought:
Orf the menu
Angus
