Archive for March 2009

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Greetings all

Hi folks - sorry its been a while since I posted :-( but better late than never, what what?

This blog seems to be very political at the moment, I am not into politics much (for years I thought it was something to do with parrots being infested with fleas) - sorry about that i’ll get me coat.

Anyway, spring seems to have arrived judging by the daffy’s and crocii (apparantly that is the correct plural of crocus if you can believe it) not to mention the lambs in all the fields around and about. Talking of lambs, I went to a house the other day to do a job and what was in the backgarden yes, a very young lamb. It is not very often that you get the chance to play with one of these, usually you have to admire them from a distance. This lamb was a little cutie, very tame and playful and I spent quite a lot of time playing with it much to the customers dismay. I could imagine the £ signs wizzing around her head trying to calculate the bill for all the extra time.

Janette is much improved she is not depressed now and for the moment is coping much better, so we are very thankful for that and home is a lot happier place to be. Everyone else is OK. Sarah has returned from a weeks holiday in Egypt but she reckons that lying in the sun does not have the appeal that it used to have, mind you she is 30 now - ouch!

Thoughts are turning towards getting to work on the boat, sorting all them little jobs that need doing before she goes back into the water. With a little blessing we might have a decent summer this year - we live in hope. Time to get the rods and reels out Edward and give them a little attention in anticipation of all those fifteen pound cod etc. Does anyone watch extreme fishing on the box, what a great little program! Last week they were in Alaska pulling huge cod in that we can only dream about in our bestest dreams. The thing is they were MOANING about it because they could not catch the particular fish that they were after - some Alaskan fish that most people hav’nt heard of - hugh?. Some people are NEVER happy!

At the moment i am using my leisure time for study. Wait for it………….. Quantum mechanics. Now i know you will all be suitably impressed with that, but to be honest it has been hard work. BUT i am beginning to get my head round it now to some degree. The only thing i leave out is the math because that is way over my head but the theory and practical experiments are fascinating and well worth the effort to understand. It was the new large hadron collider that got me really interested as i wanted to know how it worked and one thing leads to another……… The LHC can supposedly produce energy levels (by colliding sub-atomic particals) that were only present fractions of a second after the big bang so this will help them to better understand the beginnings of the universe. The problem is that they have not got a clue how it got started. Mmmmmh!

Anyway, thats enough rambling for one post.

I hope everyone is healthy and happy and has itchy fingers to get started writing a post.

:-) All our love and XXX from andee, janette and family :-)

Stop press!

Political Spongiform Encephalopathy (PSE) (commonly known as Mad Politicians Disease) continues to ravage Westminster. The disease is transmitted by contact with Nu-liebour Government ministers. Further contaminated areas were uncovered recently in Tesco, Aldi and ASDA.  Disease symptoms include acute megalomania, excessive greed, uncontrollable, persistent and irrational desire for irresponsible and petty lawmaking, malignant desire to inflict misery on indigenous UK citizens, an insistence, when faced with the catastrophic results of their actions, that these results are caused by others and that their own (unadmitted) irrational and disastrous actions are, in fact, the only hope for saving the UK and the world.  

There is no known cure for PSE except culling of the affected herd. 

This will take place urgently at the next General Election.

PS.  Could you put your flag on this one Ted?  Thanks.  Pat.

Hey Richard, in your piece about the BNP, how woud you distinguish the imagined BNP thugs and troublemakers committing violent acts that you mention from the regular non-BNP ones who are doing this in the UK every day of the week by all accounts? I sure am glad my parents emigrated when they did.

Fly the flag don’t hit them with it

Hi All,

I just had to take time out from my hectic schedule(ha-ha) to let you know how I feel with regard to all this talk about nationalism.

I,( like the majority of the people in this country,) am totally dismayed with the way that this goverment has brought this country to near catastrophe.I do not feel however, that  nationalist policies that would not normally be considered by the average U.K.citizen, are the answer to all our problems.

I do feel that Nick Griffin and the British Nationalist Party would take advantage of the current situation,  just as in the great depression of the 1930’s  Hitler and his Fascist criminals  took advantage of the German Nation by creating a wave of nationalism against the Jewish nation. We all know what happened next.

The problem with nationalism is it seems to attract  thugs and  troublemakers  who are determined to take advantage of the situation by committing  violent acts against anybody that they take a dislike to.

I am sure that the majority of population want, as I do, for their children and grand children to  live in a society free from fear no matter what race or creed they may be.

 I’ve had my say now

love to all

Richard

Supermarket Madness

Hi Ted

I had a similar experience with ASDA at the self serve checkout,when I was refused to buy some beer as Ysabelle was helping me put the shopping through the scanner. I complained to the manager regarding the “over the top” reaction of the shop assistant. It was infuriating the fact that some stranger was questioning my responsibilty as a parent. 

Now Tesco are at it …… the lunacy must be contagious!

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Staff at supermarket giant Tesco refused to sell wine to a mother - in case she gave it to her 14-year-old daughter.

Fraud investigator Karen Dumelow, 46, and her daughter Emily were at the check-out when a cashier said she could not serve her in case the wine was given to the youngster.

Read this almost unbelievable story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158864/Tesco-refused-sell-wine-46-year=old-woman–case-gave-14-year-old-daughter.html

Reminded me of last week when, in ALDI, I tried to buy three packs of Ibuprofen to top up my medicine chest. As they were scanned at the checkout I was told that I could only purchase two (the checkout girl presumed that it was in case I was intending using them to commit suicide or something) and one was taken away. I didn’t need three - I didn’t even need two, but out of bloody-mindedness I went into NETTO and bought two more. You see, these potty regulations don’t achieve anything.

I think the lady who was insulted in Tesco behaved very graciously. I would have left all my groceries - including the wine - where they were on the check-out and just walked out of the store - to buy my groceries and wine somewhere else. I hope she will do that next time.

Hi families

Greetings

A brief word of explanation regarding the last few ( and maybe the next few) posts. Please don’t assume that this is no longer the Talbot Family Blog - I have just started another section entitled “FLYING THE FLAG” to help control my blood pressure in these days of unbelievably crass behaviour and apparently terminal lunacy by the resident politicians of this country.

If, you are doing, or want to view, a Family post just click on “Family Chat” in the column on the right and the Family Chat posts will be assembled separately for your viewing. Or …… you may wish to ease your own frustrations by reading the FLYING THE FLAG posts - it’s your choice.

…… or you can join in with your own FLYING THE FLAG contributions if you wish - feel free.

I had a look at the BNP site today - you know, the ones we are all warned against. They seem to be singing my song - like millions of other dissatisfied residents of this country. Worth having a look. http://bnp.org.uk

Right, that’s it for now. Don’t forget, click on “Family Chat” on the right for Family business.

Love to all,

Ted

Here we go again!

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Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary James Parnell has announced a policy of ensuring that ethnic minorities and other favoured groups will receive special treatment to protect them from the worst effects of the economic depression.   Of course, no such special consideration will be accorded to ordinary British people who have contributed to Britain all their lives.

Mr Parnell indicated that hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be poured into finding jobs for members of non-white communities.

In fact, there is no evidence that the economic depression is disproportionately affecting ethnic communities, as Mr Parnell was himself forced to concede in his speech.  “In this recession”, he said, “the evidence so far is that its effects, however painful, are being spread across the population more evenly.  But we will not take any chances”.

http://bnp.org.uk

People who live in glass houses ……..

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Well worth a read …..

Quotes:

“Having discovered that the Government can’t legally strip disgraced banker Fred Goodwin of his £693,000-a-year pension, Harriet Harman announces an appeal to the ‘court of public opinion’”.

“Once ministers start resorting to the court of public opinion to get their own way, they’re on dangerous ground”.

Click the link to read the rest …..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1158676/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Fred-Shred-guilty-court-public-opinion.html

Sorry …. just couldn’t resist this one from the Daily Mail today.

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Now IVF mothers can name ANYONE as ‘father’ on birth certificate… even a woman.  

Family values were under attack again last night with the news that single women having IVF will be able to name anyone they like as their baby’s father on the birth certificate.

New regulations mean that a mother could nominate another woman to be her child’s ‘father’.

The ‘father’ does not need to be genetically related to the baby, nor be in any sort of romantic relationship with the mother.

….. sort of a perverted make-it-up-yourself genealogy. Makes you feel sorry for the child whose official proof of lineage is yet another liebour government sponsored falsehood!

Whatever happened to truth?

Apart from under this so-called government, one would expect this to surely be an infringement of the only-just-born child’s human rights …….. but of course, under this so-called government human rights only belong to criminals and illegal immigrants and terrorists.  Silly me!!!!

Too daft to believe? Think I’m making it up? Click the link to read the story - and readers’ comments!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158322/Another-blow-fatherhood-IVF-mothers-ANYONE-father-birth-certificate.html

March brings breezes, loud and shrill ……..

……..to stir the dancing daffodil.

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Greetings - anyone - everyone?

Had a great day yesterday “venting my spleen” on the blog. Should relieve the pressure for a day or two - and the best thing is that next year we should be rid of this lot.  Anyway, enough of that!

It was good to see the photo of Nathan - thanks Richard - no wonder you are proud of him.  Please give him - and Mike and Lucy - a big hug from me. And while you are at it give everyone a hug. Can’t beat ‘em!

It is a lovely rainy morning here in Cumbria - streams of rainwater running down the street. Reminds me of the times years ago when we had long hot summers and the water sprayer used to come around to keep the dust down. Remember that, anyone? You are too young to Andrew - come to think of it you probably all are.  So now we have rainy days now to do the same thing. But the Spring flowers are now bursting forth and making everywhere a picture. They certainly do brighten the day.

I guess you are all OK out there - family, I mean. I  hear that Bob and Chilli visited Cumbria last weekend, but I didn’t see anything of them or hear anything of their visit until they had returned to Bridlington. Must have been a secret, although I understand that they did visit Peter and Barbara during the visit. Shhhhhhhh!

Well, the rain has now stopped and the day is brightening so I am going to head off out and take advantage of the break - in other words “have a walk”. May be back later.

Love to anyone - everyone.

Ted.

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