What bemused you today?

[CML-1591]

I like the Woody Allen quote....... ...

It is all so in the film 'School of Rock' - well thats where I heard it.

[jinky]

It`s oh so different in secondary education now Abers - don`t know about primary. My teacher wife is rarely home before 6, has at least 3 days work to do "on holiday" next week - including one day in school and spends at least 5-7 hours working everu weekend and a minimum of 1.5 hours Monday to thursday evenings after school. She rarely gets a ,lunch break with a head of department that gets round limits on maximum of supposedly 2 evening meetings a week by calling extra at lunch!
The sooner she leaves the better - makes me feel guilty when I tell her what bad light I have had all day for my photography

[Graham]

It`s oh so different in secondary education now Abers - don`t know about primary. My teacher wife is rarely home before 6, has at least 3 days work to do "on holiday" next week - including one day in school and spends at least 5-7 hours working everu weekend and a minimum of 1.5 hours Monday to thursday evenings after school. She rarely gets a ,lunch break with a head of department that gets round limits on maximum of supposedly 2 evening meetings a week by calling extra at lunch!
The sooner she leaves the better - makes me feel guilty when I tell her what bad light I have had all day for my photography

Hey Jinky. Tell me about it!
                                          My wifes the same, I don't know how she does it.
                                                Graham.

[Graham]

     


        Well. As you can see from the view from my bedroom window, Derby now has a fully functioning helipad at it's new hospital.
               Today we had a visitor to our door inviting us to sign a petition complaining about the noise of the helicopters landing in what, despite the new hospital, is still a residential area.
               One of the good ladys point's was that there had been up to six landings a day!
               Now let me say right now that both myself and my wife have full time jobs, and since the ambulance in the sky dos'nt land after dark it causes us little disturbance.
               I explained this to the lady, and futher that six landings meant six less jobs for the countries funeral parlours! I then sugested that perhaps she should try and look a little more positivley on the situation. I, for example, on hearing that there was now a major A&E department less than half a mile from my front door, went straight out and bourght that circular saw I had been promising myself!
               Sadly she was unable to see my point and seemed to be saying that the badly injured occupants of the helicopter should have the decency to die by the roadside rather than interupt her enjoyment of the Emerdale omnibus edition!
               I could see my points were not getting through and took the only option open to me... I felled her with a left hook!....That may not actually be true but it was certainly in my mind
                                    Thank you . I feel better for that!...... Graham.

[spinner]

Ah the blissfullness that comes from self imposed ignorance, or in otherwords, people who are so stupid, they don't recognize they are.

[nickt]

England's crap performance against Italy.
Nick

[greypoint]

Does anyone else see a smiley face on that helicopter... looks like a giant cartoon bug

[Forseti]

Does anyone else see a smiley face on that helicopter... looks like a giant cartoon bug

Yes indeed. The fact of it being a helicopter escaped me altogether at the beginning. Wonder what's on the door when it's closed - a big pair of lips perhaps..

[ABERS]

It's the snub nose that makes it for me!

[Graham]

    I did'nt see it when I took the picture, but it screams at you on the screen!

[Oldboy]

After all the talk about warmer winters it now appears that Spring is going to be later, by about a month, this year, but when it does come it's going to be a burst of colours. I noticed the Snowdrops were late but the Bluebells, which put out foliage for a month or so before the flowers, has started to appear.  

Don't know if anyone else has noticed but in Sandwell Valley a lot of molehills have appeared. I assume it's because the ground is still very wet, and had been for the last three months. At a rough guess it must be in excess of two hundred.  

[spinner]

Don't know if anyone else has noticed but in Sandwell Valley a lot of molehills have appeared. I assume it's because the ground is still very wet, and had been for the last three months. At a rough guess it must be in excess of two hundred.  

Enough for a mountain?

[ABERS]

Receiving an email telling me that someone had posted a comment on my rarely used and recently updated blog. I don't mind or care what reactions I get from what I say or feel, that I suppose is par for the course. But why Oh why does the person not have the guts to put their name to what they say or feel and post their comment anonymously?

[greypoint]

Hmm - the style looks vaguely familiar    Yes, there were differing and dogmatic opinions on the old DCMag site - but at least there were opinions and arguments and banter [for those with a sense of humour that is]. Strangely sterile now apart from the odd spat in the only thriving part, the competition thread.

[spinner]

At least you warned them in the title. But you're right if they're going to trash you they should have the stones to identify themselves.