Archive for July 2017

You give ’em clip-boards and lanyards, and all of a sudden they think they know it all

Posted by on July 31st 2017 in Driveway-blocking feckwits and piss-poor parkers

Everything, that is, except where the arse-ends of their vans are.

This guy works for the Council so he probably really does believe that he owns the road:

On Three

Posted by on July 26th 2017 in Health, or lack thereof, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)

Not sure that I agree with everything here, but it's a good effort:

 

I’m back

Posted by on July 22nd 2017 in Great Escapes, Pics
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Released back into the wild, the dominant male heads to the high ground to reclaim his territory:

 

 

S7317 - 2,861 ft (872m)

AML’s Ass… well and truly kicked

Posted by on July 13th 2017 in Health, or lack thereof

There's good news for a change - for the first time since diagnosis way back at the end of 2015, all of my key test results are in the green zone. The consultant declared me to be "normal" - a sweeping statement that I soon corrected, much to her amusement. I've not been "normal" ever since the first time my Mum took me, newborn, out in the pram to go to her local butcher's shop. She parked me up outside, went in, bought her pound of flesh and then went home. A while later she realised that two things were missing - me and the pram! 😳 Mentally-scarred for life, I was.

Anyway, the usual caveats apply - in theory the docs could have given me someone else's results again, but I think I'll give them the benefit of the doubt this time.

Here you go:

It's been an interesting journey, thanks for sharing it with me.

Badministrative errors

Posted by on July 12th 2017 in A bit of a rant

The school's website is just as dodgy as its messaging service.

For ALL of the current academic year their website's calendar has been telling all and sundry that this term will end on Friday July 14th. We booked our holiday with that date in mind:

Furthermore, for many weeks it has been telling the same all and sundry that the Year 12 Futures (Future's???) Conference finishes on Thursday July 13th:

Well, it ain't so. TODAY we found out that TODAY is both the last day of term for Year 12 students and the last day of the Year 12 Futures (Future's???) Conference.

You can guess how diplomatic I was when I phoned the school to listen to the staff pointing the verbal finger of blame at the admins and concocting made-up-on-the-fly excuses.

FFS, HAJC, if you're going to have an informative website, the least you could do is check that the information there is actually correct.

Omission and Commission

Posted by on July 12th 2017 in Rambling on...

If the standard of SPAG in their text messages is much to go by, I'm relieved that she's not studying A-Level English Language there:

I think the question of the commissioned apostrophe may not be sufficient, I'll probably have to organise my own search-party to find the missing colon, the absent full-stop and the omitted capitalisation of the sentence-start. I'm fairly sure that there aren't enough "the"s or "a"s in there either.