Volumous amounts of Keats, vast amounts of lack of warm,
vacuous amounts of atmospheric movement and very little skywater at the Castle
this morn, spent most of yesterday upgrading the old desktop computer in the
study, new motherboard, CPU, memory, 320gb sata hard drive and video card.
His Maj decided he would “help out” by curling up on my
chair as soon as I got up to do something.
Sigmund’s great grandson who is apparently the Minister for
Welfare Reform has been letting orf a bit of steam about the benefits system.
Baron David Anthony Freud-ex Financial Times journalist, ex-‘business
man’, ex-Banker and now “advisor” to the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club
Coalition on “welfare reform” has allegedly said the benefits system was
"dreadful" and allowed lone parents and sickness claimants to
"have a lifestyle" on the state.
Poor people should be prepared to take more risks because they have the least to lose, and insisted he understood the reality of living on benefits, arguing "you don't have to be the corpse to go to a funeral"..
Poor people should be prepared to take more risks because they have the least to lose, and insisted he understood the reality of living on benefits, arguing "you don't have to be the corpse to go to a funeral"..
He added: "You know, the incapacity benefits, the lone
parents, the people who are self-employed for year after year and only earn
hundreds of pounds or a few thousand pounds, the people waiting for their work
ability assessment then not going to it - all kinds of areas where people are
able to have a lifestyle off benefits and actually off conditionality."
His “lordship” dismissed the possibility of taking part in a
television documentary which filmed him living on benefits for a week,
something a number of politicians have done in the past.
"I have thought of the issue," he said. "The
trouble is it's a stunt when someone like me does it because you do it for a
week. That's not the point."
Someone like him- Rich, over educated, arrogant, ignorant, and
condescending wouldn’t last a day on benefits.
A turkey pardoned by President Barack Obama at Thanksgiving
2011 was put down three days prior to this year's holiday, Virginia's Mount
Vernon Estate said.
The estate, where pardoned turkeys are taken to live out
their lives, said Peace, the understudy for 2011's turkey, Liberty, was put
down Monday after suffering an illness during the weekend, The Independent
reported Friday.
The newspaper said news of the bird's demise has
"conspiracy theorists all aflutter" but Rebbecca Aloisi, vice
president for marketing at the Mount Vernon Estate, said there was no
conspiracy to have the pardoned turkey end up as part of a Thanksgiving dinner.
"I know that it was done in a humane manner but I don't
know the mechanics," she said. "I appreciate where you're going with
this, but I assure you that these birds are extremely well cared for."
Still got the touch then Barack
Cometh the Sealander schwimmcaravan; an amphibious “mobile
home” in which you can “Enjoy your free time, an innovative mobile home with
amphibian characteristics. It offers utmost flexibility. Just hitch the
SEALANDER to your car and go. Enjoy an unrestricted ride, for when you arrive
ashore the journey hasn't ended, it has only just begun”,
“Thanks to the integrated waterproof chassis the SEALANDER
can be let into water without need of a boat slip or trailer system. The width
of the lower shell provides stability and a secure position on water. Because
of the modest draught you can explore even shallow waters. The low-emission
electric motor permits license free access to most inland waters. The
rechargeable battery of the outboard engine also supplies electricity to the
interior living area and can easily be recharged from the towing vehicle during
the journey on land.”
Must get one for the moat; mind you it could come in handy
in waterlogged Blighty.
A Kent town's
Christmas display was booed by crowds when the lights were switched on.
A few hundred
people gathered in Herne Bay last Friday to watch the stars of the local
Sleeping Beauty panto, Gareth Gates and Toyah Wilcox, turn them on.
One person said the
decorations looked like normal light bulbs, while another said he had more in
his shop window.
Canterbury City
Council said it was the same display as last year, but it would consult with
local businesses.
Greengrocer Karen
Truelove described the switch-on in the town centre as "completely
flat".
"There was
nothing for people to look at... within half-an-hour the town was like a ghost
town."
No change there then...
The warning came
after an old ruined mill, said to once have been the home of notorious vampire
Sava Savanovic, collapsed.
Savanovic was said
to have lived in the old watermill on the Rogacica River, at Zarozje village in
the municipality of Bajina Basta where he drank the blood of anybody that came
to mill their grain.
The watermill was
bought by the local Jagodic family, and they were too scared to use it as a
mill - but discovered it was a goldmine when they started advertising it to
tourists.
But the family were
worried about carrying out building work on the mill because they were scared
they might disturb the vampire or unleash his wrath if his home was messed
around with - and now the property has collapsed through lack of repair.
But for locals it
has sparked rumours that the vampire is now free once again.
Local mayor Miodrag
Vujetic admitted: "People are worried; everybody knows the legend of this
vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else
and possibly other victims is terrifying people. We are all frightened."
He confirmed that
the local council had advised all villagers to put garlic on their doors and
windows to protect them from the vampire as it was well known they can't stand
the smell.
He added: "We
have also reminded them to put a Holy cross in every room in the house."
My brain hurts.....
And finally:
Three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother have found an
unusual replacement - a white Swiss Shepherd dog called Tallim.
The cubs were rejected by their natural mother, a tigress
called Bagira, soon after their birth in a Russian zoo on November 14.
The Oktyabrsky zoo in the Black Sea resort of Sochi
immediately advertised the vacant position of a tiger mother on the internet.
Staff had been prepared for the situation because Bagira had
abandoned two other newborn cubs five months previously.
They found a white Swiss Shepherd dog from Yeysk, in the
Krasnodar region, to take over.
The canine is now feeding and nurturing the three cubs - two
males named Olymp and Dar and one female named Talli after her adoptive mother.
Although the tiger cubs initially showed their claws and
hissed, Tallim nursed them patiently and afterwards showered them with
attention, nudging them playfully.
The zoo staff says the tiger cubs do not pose any threat to
their adoptive mother.
I do like an
optimist...
That’s it: I’m
orf to have a look at Sinocalliopteryx
And today’s
thought:
Freudian family
Angus
