I have often wondered why the British travel overseas - I still wonder. I am often given the excuse that it is the 'rotten weather' - how easy it is to blame something that cannot defend itself. The weather whatever it is - is what made this country GREAT!!
Castle Ashby is delightful and a beauty - I went to the castle itself and spent more than 4 hours amusing myself. I took great photographs - but only when I wanted to post it - wham - the camera decided that it has had enough of my click click and now I have to use someone elses before I can post my pictures. Before I disappear - I tasted Mulberry formerly known as LOVE APPLES - wonderful taste and rich in colour. If anyone wants to fool his/her partner, the colour of the fruit is enough to do the trick. I am not suggesting males and females to embark on deceit JUST that the fruit and its colour is rich - em - I think vitamin C or any of the alphabets that takes anyone's fancy. I better go now. I have to return to that great city LONDON.
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Saturday, 28 July 2007
The Best Kept Village in buckinghamshire - Weston Underwood
Today, we (Moi, M & J) walked to some of the prettiest villages in Buckinghamshire but my favorite is Weston Underwood - with some very clean, nice and swankiest albeit quirky houses. We picked plums - and I ate loads - as one of my 5 recommended fruit. M and her sister, J made crumbles with the rest of the plums. Tried to take a ramblers path, but there were cows in the field - somehow, the bull was not having any intruders (well, not today anyway) - we tried to continue with our walk as we believed that we had right of way - after all, we are humans (??) but his stare said a lot and after a teeny weeny stand off, we heeded his ADVICE. And took a detour - my tired legs crying for a sit down, but my accomplices were not having any of this tiredness - mind you, they were older but fitter than me - so much for the weaker sex!!!
We also went Ravenstone - another beautiful village - just been told that plum picking took place at Ravenstone - NOT Weston Underwood -&%$**. We must have walked for about 3 miles - and I wore my walking booth - the second time since it was bought in February 2007. Worn first time in the lake districts - wet, cold - GOSH was I miserable that day - but the beauty of the place just kept masking my misery. Now everyone - well the few who have met me will stop moaning and praise me for my effort. Jan Archer - TAKE NOTE!!! Ms Archer has given me so much grief for my lazy demeanor - I kept telling her that I rather die happy than live longer than necessary with a face like someone who had just missed his orgasm - but she wont back down. It is nice that she cares and wants me to live FOREVER !! ha
We also went Ravenstone - another beautiful village - just been told that plum picking took place at Ravenstone - NOT Weston Underwood -&%$**. We must have walked for about 3 miles - and I wore my walking booth - the second time since it was bought in February 2007. Worn first time in the lake districts - wet, cold - GOSH was I miserable that day - but the beauty of the place just kept masking my misery. Now everyone - well the few who have met me will stop moaning and praise me for my effort. Jan Archer - TAKE NOTE!!! Ms Archer has given me so much grief for my lazy demeanor - I kept telling her that I rather die happy than live longer than necessary with a face like someone who had just missed his orgasm - but she wont back down. It is nice that she cares and wants me to live FOREVER !! ha
Friday, 13 July 2007
COUNTRY versus CONTINENT
On Monday, 9 July 2007. - four men were found guilty of trying to bomb on (21 JULY 2005)underground stations in various parts of London. These idiots who had escaped the ravages of their native countries to seek new life in the UK - ended up joining some evil group in the name of trying to liberate the oppressed in other parts of the world that they knew little of.
These men were from Ghana, Ethiopia and Somalia. One would have thought that any attempt at liberation would have at least start with their countries of birth - not a country that was kind enough to offer them refuge. These failures - and they even failed to carry out their evil plan to the letter - indicated the stupidity of these animals. They not only did not understand what they were about to do - they were so cowardly as not to be able to face the consequences of their actions - to try to murder innocent people - most of whom had objected to the war in Iraq, some would have been fellow Muslims- and many who had campaigned for a fairer society that will welcome others who may one day find themselves in some difficult situation. By their actions - it forces a once good people to QUESTION why these 'foreigners' should be allowed into their country only for a possible carnage and mayhem to be heaped on them.
These man cannot claim to be Muslims - because the Muslim religion did not and had never preached violence against the innocent - whatever story reads today about the MUSLIM religion, one needs to take these with a pinch of salt.
Rightly, the court found these idiots guilty and sentenced them to minimum of 40 years in prison. Personally, I would have liked to see them deported to either Iraq or Afganistan - or mercifully return them to their country of birth. The UK will still have to shoulder the immense cost of their upkeep in prison which have been estimated to be somewhere between £25000 and £40,000 per prisoner.
Another issue that I wanted to raise is the media frenzy about these men and their place of origin - particularly the BBC. It would appear that the corporation could not distinguish between a country and a continent - but then again, this is not any different to the usual African discourse - one of primitism, uncivilised and evil. It suited the media to report of the evil Africans than these men and the country the came from. To condemn a whole continent for the acts of a few is ludicrous and unforgiven - it equally reminded one of the need to continue to fight an oppressed and racial fight. We have never heard of or even read of a European who killed, kidnapped or raped a child. We are rightly reminded of the Austrian who kidnapped a young girl and held her prisoner for years, the German who killed and ate his victims - NOT A EUROPEAN, yet the media of which BBC participated in equal vigor had absolutely no qualms to condemn a continent because of the foolishness of evil four men who unfortunately, happened to come from Africa. This reminded me once more of the 'bad' apple syndrome - where a white person's crime is seen in isolation and a black person's is seen as symptomatic of the whole race. It is time that we say that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!!!! Good reporting is more fruitful than the silliness of the sensationalism and headline grabbing. The media find it easy to condemn politicians - it's be very helpful if now and then, they look at themselves in the mirror - I am sure they will - well some of them will hate waht they see.
These men were from Ghana, Ethiopia and Somalia. One would have thought that any attempt at liberation would have at least start with their countries of birth - not a country that was kind enough to offer them refuge. These failures - and they even failed to carry out their evil plan to the letter - indicated the stupidity of these animals. They not only did not understand what they were about to do - they were so cowardly as not to be able to face the consequences of their actions - to try to murder innocent people - most of whom had objected to the war in Iraq, some would have been fellow Muslims- and many who had campaigned for a fairer society that will welcome others who may one day find themselves in some difficult situation. By their actions - it forces a once good people to QUESTION why these 'foreigners' should be allowed into their country only for a possible carnage and mayhem to be heaped on them.
These man cannot claim to be Muslims - because the Muslim religion did not and had never preached violence against the innocent - whatever story reads today about the MUSLIM religion, one needs to take these with a pinch of salt.
Rightly, the court found these idiots guilty and sentenced them to minimum of 40 years in prison. Personally, I would have liked to see them deported to either Iraq or Afganistan - or mercifully return them to their country of birth. The UK will still have to shoulder the immense cost of their upkeep in prison which have been estimated to be somewhere between £25000 and £40,000 per prisoner.
Another issue that I wanted to raise is the media frenzy about these men and their place of origin - particularly the BBC. It would appear that the corporation could not distinguish between a country and a continent - but then again, this is not any different to the usual African discourse - one of primitism, uncivilised and evil. It suited the media to report of the evil Africans than these men and the country the came from. To condemn a whole continent for the acts of a few is ludicrous and unforgiven - it equally reminded one of the need to continue to fight an oppressed and racial fight. We have never heard of or even read of a European who killed, kidnapped or raped a child. We are rightly reminded of the Austrian who kidnapped a young girl and held her prisoner for years, the German who killed and ate his victims - NOT A EUROPEAN, yet the media of which BBC participated in equal vigor had absolutely no qualms to condemn a continent because of the foolishness of evil four men who unfortunately, happened to come from Africa. This reminded me once more of the 'bad' apple syndrome - where a white person's crime is seen in isolation and a black person's is seen as symptomatic of the whole race. It is time that we say that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!!!! Good reporting is more fruitful than the silliness of the sensationalism and headline grabbing. The media find it easy to condemn politicians - it's be very helpful if now and then, they look at themselves in the mirror - I am sure they will - well some of them will hate waht they see.
Saturday, 7 July 2007
07-07-2007
What a beautiful July and everything seemed to have gone swimmingly wonderful. On the sports front, Lewis Hamilton in the pole position of the British Grand Prix, Venus Williams winning the Wimbledon for the 4th time, and the excellent start of the first British Tour de France.
This fine day was marred by the news of the death of over 100 people in Iraq. Is there no end to this carnage? It is time that all parties concerned communicate with each other.
This fine day was marred by the news of the death of over 100 people in Iraq. Is there no end to this carnage? It is time that all parties concerned communicate with each other.
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