Gifts, Snow and the Internet

This winter...Christmas looks screwed up for many people due to the failure to deliver internet orders because of the wide spread downfall of snow across the UK. Perhaps people will learn something about the world in this time of delays etc. You can sit in the comfort of your home and order what you like but at the end of this cyber ordering chain there is the great outdoors. There is a good chance that if you venture out and experience it and visit the shops you may get your items in time for Christmas. I did.

Shed loads of snow this winter

Global warming

30/11/10  It's the tale end of November it's been freezing for days, -10c to -20c up north. My youngest daughter has caught the flu ( proper flu, she has seen a doctor ) and it's been snowing all day, it reached a depth of 6" a few miles away in Dulwich. Chaos on the roads, people taking four and half hours to make a journey that normally takes forty five minutes.  Bus drivers terminating the journey route at the first sign of a snow flake. It's just gone 9o/c at night and it's still snowing.
1/11/10 
There is reports that the temperature in places in the north of the UK could be as low as  -27 by the end of the week. Sheet ice across the footpaths and roads locally. It's -3 in my garden.
2/11/10 
Loads more snow and there's is ice everywhere.

If this is a result of global warming, bring on the ice age

                                                    It's too cold for the kids

Jackie and Andy

Please say hello to the Midnight in Cold Blow Lane production team

Sitting at the back is "Swampy" and is responsible for the jokes and a bit of spell checking.

Miss Moneypenny does everything else.

Not really....just a couple of bods at work.

BRITISH PARKING ASSOCIATION

20/11/10 The local councils are looking for permission to raise the parking fine costs, the British Parking Association are supporting them. Bloody typical! The contractors who do the councils dirty work are pushing for a rise as well, more profit for all.

London Cyclists

I think we would all agree that London is not the best place to ride bicycles if you want to reach retirement age.
What I cannot grasp is bicycles and buses mixing together in the same lane. If I rode a bike the last place I would want to be is mixing it is with the 159 to Streatham. Last night I was on the Brixton Road, the A23 near Brixton waiting for someone and I noticed how many bikes had no lights, incredible, idiots, muppets and absolute twats.
Most of them looked like city workers going home. Silly polystyrene hat and back pack but not much between the ears. The A23 in that area is busy, but not only that, it contains some of the worse drivers in the UK and they wouldn't see you in daylight never mind at night.

Communication Fever

I have started a new Blogspot called Communication Fever. This Blogspot contains Amateur Radio which I have been interested in from about 1979. Loads of Pictures and text. There is a link in the right hand side Sidebar or click on the link here.  http://hamradio-g0vph.blogspot.com/  There is a link back to this site.

Oz

The shard .....If you get a chance go see for yourself

I am not one for praising big city buildings but the one they are building near London Bridge Railway Station just over the Thames in South London is something to wonder. It is being built on land that is no larger in size than the actual building footprint and it is tall and getting taller. I stood watching the construction on a busy working day and what stood out was the ingenious way they have overcome the limited site of the site so they can operate cranes, external lifts and store and use the normal building site paraphernalia.
The building looks like a radical design and I will try to get some more pics as it progresses and reaches completion. What a project this building is. Designed by Renzo Piano when it is finished it will be the tallest building within the EU.


The Guardian newspaper is concerned that when it is built there will not be many places for bicycles.

A clear blue sky

Shot from a moving bus
As far as I know the first building of this size and
design built in South London, stuff like this
is normally only built in the City.

I have a bit more about this on my page on this Blogspot  "Me and stuff and pics of  South London"

Robin Hood Airport Twitter

I have heard it all now.
Some bloke has lost his job, dragged through the Law Courts and has been treated like crap because he was  cheesed off with the Robin Hood Airport and their response with the snow last winter.
What did he do
He tweeted on Twitter about the airport and joked that the place needs blowing up.
What did they do
A airport jobs-worth junior manager read this on Twitter and fetched in the law, who took this as war, and this is no joke they locked up the bloke.  Sacked from his job and a hefty fine as well as this unjust contrived conviction. There is a appeal pending.  11/11/10 Just heard that he has lost his appeal

I do despair!!


How many times do people say....

I'm so hungry I could eat a scabby horse 
Some idiot will phone the RSPCA

I will kill that cat
as above

I'll shoot that dog if it doesn't stop barking
as above plus seven Police Snipers

That referee needs shooting 
Some idiot will phone the Police

I could murder that kid of mine
Some idiot will phone the Police, Social Workers and the NSPCC

I will wash your mouth out with soap
as above

I am in two minds whether to knock/burn that building down
Some idiot will phone the Police, Fire Brigade and the Council.              
                                    
I'll kill my self trying
Some idiot will call the Police, Social Workers and a Counsellor
and you would be put on suicide watch.

I have heard this loads of times.....Politicians, they all need shooting.


I have heard many people say.....Guy Fawkes had the right idea.


And of course..... If I had a rope I would hang the bastard myself


The list is endless

What's so sad about all of this is that the Police,Security Services, Fire Brigade, RSPCA, Social Workers etc would respond and I'm sure the HSE would be involved in there somewhere.  You wouldn't think it would be that hard in knowing that you shouldn't take these things literately. Just to be on the safe side I disclaim my self from any of the actions listed above apart from eating a scabby horse, as money is tight these days and I have not had a pay rise for two years "you never know."

I have a new word...Twatter:  meaning somebody who believes all they read and hear.
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I have just Googled the word Twatter and it's listed 114.000 times, it seems to have different meanings but I think I will stick to mine.  Have a look yourself.

Suzy Creamcheese

My wife said to me " I only want sex when I am drunk....That's just not true, I also want a kebab!

A pair of pants

I have a lucky blue pair.

I'm confused!! I can understand a pair of socks or a a pair of shoes but I don't understand a pair of pants??  If a pair of pants consists of not one pant but two pants I can only conclude that each leg opening must be a pant. If a pair of trousers consists of not one trouser but two trousers each leg must be a trouser and two trousers makes a pair. I wonder why a shirt is not called a pair of sleeves??

The 2010 World Cup NIGHTMARE! and England flags

Suzy Creamcheese.....Flying the flag

I have tried to watch it, but it's unbearable due to the continuous droning created by those poxy horn things that the crowds are blowing, it sounds like a million trapped Wasps. I persevered and watched the England V USA game and did not hear a England chant or song because all people wanted to do was blow them bloody things all through the game. I hope and prey these dough-nuts who are blowing them don't start it up with our league football in the UK. NIGHTMARE!!

I found something worse. Due to commitments I was on the motorway while England V Algeria was playing so had to hear the game on AM radio. The noise was horrendous as the signal faded in and out, the back ground noise of those poxy horns sounded like alternator whine. it was terrible, but I persevered. As for the game "I'm saying nothing"

OZ

PS.....While I am having a moan, what is the point of England flags that are being purchased and displayed all round the country having England written across them. I cannot get my head around this surely the flag it self saids it all, after all you do not see German flags with the word Germany written across it.  Downham Way near Bromley Kent has the most amount of England flags that I have seen in this World Cup my Grand Daughter counted 83 flags (not counting bunting), the road looks terrific!

Amazing...all for nothing. England players make their way home after another dismal performance. And I bet it will be the same old players in the Euro cup in 2012, I suppose it's to be expected when there's not much more than four dozen English players to choose from in the Premier League. Would the FA look out side the Premier League? I don't think so.

KILLER SPIDER

I triggered a sequence of events within the spiders world recently and it was WOW!

While moving a large pile of old waste paper bins that were stored underneath a Portacabin at work I came across nature. In one of the bins there was a big shiny black spider and it was guarded a nest that had lots of little shiny black baby spiders running around (cute). I decided to move the bin to a new location and then I spotted a bigger hairy spider on the outside of the bin. I gently picked the spider up but it run off and scurried up my arm and tried to disappear down my collar, I managed to grab it and placed it in the bin with the other spider. It stayed motionless halfway up the inside of the bin, I left the spiders alone and went off to do other things.

A while later I had a look in the bin and the spiders were in their same places, being a ex schoolboy I blew on the spider that had run up my arm "thinking that we were friends" but all I done was spook it and it scurried away to the bottom of the bin where the spider that was guarded the nest pounced on it , spun it over and sunk its fangs into it's abdomen and begun to kill it. After a couple of minutes the killer spider climbed off and left the ambushed spider to have one last bout of shaky leg syndrome and then it curled up on it's self and died.
I thought to myself "blimey raw nature, death in the waste bin and it's all my fault"

This mother was in my house

British Leyland

It come to me recently that we have bugger all manufacturing left in this country basically due to government. Can you remember the government in conjunction with the popular press "lets get rid of British Leyland it's costing you the tax payer money. We all fell for it and it was broken up flogged off and it's brands and models are no more. And are we better off money wise? I don't think so. It's all a bit like the coal mines. what's ironic the car that was the but of all our jokes (apart from Allegro) Skoda is still driving around our streets when much finer brands are no more or they are in foreign hands. Bloody sad!!

My preferred transport, Son of Sherpa the Leyland Daf (LDV) 200 minibus built like a tank, reliable and dead simple to work on. In my opinion cannot be be beaten but as we all know LDV was allowed to go to the wall. I have named her Chloe after one of my favourite grand daughters.

SUSSEX POLICE

I was watching one of them reality Cop shows last and one of the subjects was about sport bikes. I am not talking about pedal power but big powerful motorbikes.  Sussex police have a policy of following fast motor bikes using a Cop on a fast undercover (no Police markings or sirens or blue lights)  motor bike to film them and nicking them for speeding using the film as evidence.  The speeding charge is correct.  Not only do they nick them for speeding, the Police also nick them for driving without due care and attention, which is quiet weird because the Cop on the unmarked motorbike that's following them without any lights or sirens is driving at the exact speed of the bike their following (there film footage proves it).
Also as a bit of a biker my self I know that driving at 110 miles a hour requires 100% attention and you are totally focused on every manoeuvre that you do, in fact you couldn't be more awake. So in my opinion being nicked for not having due care and attention is ludicrous. Please keep that charge for the car or van mobile phone users.  As anybody looked inside a modern day Area or Motorway Police car and noticed all the gadgets they have on their dashboard and around their windscreen, "total distraction material.

GUN PLAY IN KENBURY STREET

Just experienced seeing my first firing of a gun in London at 5 o/c this evening.
Man or youth wearing motor cycle helmet chased three 14-15 year olds into the youth club "KIDS COMPANY" in Kenbury Street, Camberwell SE5. This man or youth about 5' 6" chased the three youths out of Canterbury Close and fired a shot at them when he was about 5 foot in front of me and slightly to my right. The gun was a black hand gun that had squarish features. The boys run into the youth club and the gunman turned round looked towards me and run back through Canterbury Close, I heard no motobike. I know my account of this incident sounds like a Police statement but it's the simplest way of telling the tale.

As for me, my first instinct was to give chase but sensibility kicked in and I phoned the Police.
I also thought of taking a picture on my camera phone but no chance of that. What is strange it does not effect me to much at the moment and it's as though it's not unusual, perhaps with the constant reports in the news and newspapers of gun crime that we are all bombarded with on a daily basis it does not surprise us anymore.
 

I have just heard about the multiple shootings up at Whitehaven and I suppose my little episode sounds trival now.



OZ

BEWARE....IT'S COMING OUT OF OUR POCKET

Cuts are coming, the government is trying to claw from us 700 billion pounds to get rid of government debt. What money is about will become valuable and it will not be leaving peoples pockets. I would suggest that us Joe Public will be on the brink of despair and no hope as the government try to fleece from us every penny they can so watch out for stealth tax. For our sakes do not park on red routes, yellow lines or permit bays. Keep out of bus lanes and yellow boxes. Motorway cameras will be scouring for everything trying to catch some poor bastard so they squeeze money out of them. The charges for these minor offences are upwards of £60 and in London £120 for encroaching in a bus lane. And for your own sake do not park on a red route even it's just to read a sign as you will be stung, a women in my own town as just been fined £120 for doing that. These high penalty's may have been a good idea( I don't think so) when there was plenty of milk and honey but these days it's Extortion with a capital E. Being fined £120 for such trivia could result in a family not eating for the rest of the month or getting money from unsavoury money lenders just to get by. I see gloom
 ahead.

One way to do it.

20/11/10 Local councils are looking for permission to raise parking fine costs. The British Parking Association (contractor funded) support them. Bloody typical!  The contractors that do the councils dirty work are pushing for a hike in fines to.

Something on the bottom of my shoe

UK election today, vote for a "new" goverment (Yawn) another four years of the same old waffle. The banks cocked up and we foot the bill....Bastards!

Something strange happened to me

The fog the mist and Cold Blow Lane. Bill said the place was haunted, I gave this some thought and turned towards him, but he had gone!

I had met Bill not ten minutes earlier when he appeared out of the fog near the old damp brick railway arches which straddle the narrow part of the lane.

A few nights later I was wandering in the lane when I saw a glow in the mist, it was Bill stoking the fire which was burning brightly in a hot Chesnut brazier.

"Sixpence a bag" he shouted, "lovely and hot get your Chesnuts here only sixpence a bag".
Chesnuts were sixpence a bag in 1964 it was now 2009,"get them while there hot" shouted Bill.

The Fog closed in.

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Whats it all about?

When you do something and you know you should not be doing it, but you carry on and the end result is disappointment or blood. How many of us have cut a piece of wood and the saw has jumped and ripped a finger(s) or banged a nail and whacked a thumb..0uch!!
Supporting Millwall FC is so much like that and you almost brace yourself even in the good times expecting something non-positive to happen, disappointment in play off failure, losing a game we should have won, losing by a dodgy penalty or crazy decisions by referees that seem to stack against us and of course the media, a half eaten meat pie chucked on to the edge of the pitch at the Den was covered in all the newspapers and even made it on the television, as soon as I saw that pie I thought "here we go we will get slaughtered for that and of course we did"
Grimbsy fans fight the police at Burton Albion and the Police draw batons but it hardly gets a mention.
Life would be much better if we all went off and supporting Manchester United or Chelsea, just imagine the happiness we would have, the club would have money, world class players and we would have success. We would not have to pay to go and watch them because they are always on the telly. We could buy a shirt and support the best.

Where's the whacked thumb in that?

OZ