What the…………..?

Have you ever laughed at the old lady or old man who you hear about who have put their shoes in the fridge and their butter in the wardrobe, or worse? Yes, I bet you have! Well I know that I have at some stage had a laugh at the prospect of that happening.

Well today a very odd thing happened in this household. We had friends round and after the usual coffee, tea, cakes and lots of talking the thought of alcohol crossed my mind. “Who’d like a drink then”? I asked.  “I will” said one lady, “a small sherry if you have one”. So off I went to get myself a rum and a cigar.  Got the glasses out of the cupboard, poured the sherry from the bottle chilling in the fridge and the rum from the bottle in its usual place, lit the cigar and forgot all about the event. A couple of hours later I was asked why I had put the sherry bottle in the kitchen cupboard with the glasses!!  What next, butter in the washing machine and laundry in the fridge?

All this does make me recall that old saying from Ozzy Osborne; “of all the things I miss, it’s my mind the most”.  I have not only started making regular calendar entries to remind myself of the most trivial of events but now I even leave notes around the house to remind myself to enter the events in the calendar!

Try having a look at this link about absent mindedness, I found it both amusing and informative if not a bit alarming. Just click the photograph below here and take a look.

Should I worry I asked myself? When is forgetting things just me getting old? When will it be me who, like my grandmother once said of me; “who is that man in the red shirt”? (Given it was her birthday party and I had just given her a gift) will I be saying the same of my daughter perhaps… I hope not!  I may just book myself in for one of those tests that the local GP surgery have to test your basic brain function to see if there are any signs of early onset dementia.  Hmmm, perhaps not, I may just let it slip my memory?

OK, back to list making!

Pray we don’t have a hung parliament!

I know it’s easy for many people to chant “lets give them a chance” or “a coalition would be best” or even “a hung parliament is probably best for us all”. Let me just say NONE OF THESE ARE GOOD IDEAS!

Firstly, letting the LibDems in will be terrible beyond belief to all those floating voters who (1) Hate the EU (2) Hate Gordon Brown and New Labour including Blair or (3) don’t vote consistently.  Why?  Because they are further to the left of British politics than Stalin or Pol Pot! That’s Why! [Oh and the Labour Party]

Let me give you ten good reasons why not to let Cleggy near power.

1) Lib/Dems are just not squeaky clean & holier than thou at all

2) The party isn't as Liberal or Democratic as they will tax the pants off us!

3) Vince Cable isn't as good on financial matters as he takes credit for

4) The Party is led by a closet social engineer and exponent of every form of political correctness called Nick Clegg

5) Their existing MPs are not worth a penny

6) They're just as bad on "tax & spend" as the current Labour lot, if not worse. “it’s only cost a penny on tax” I hear them muttering even as I type

7) They're the worst pro-EU party of the lot and that that's not a good thing for all you all you rabid anti EU people who don’t want to vote Labour or UKIP or even BNP!

8) They're one of the worst pro-global warming / Pro-climate change / pro-Scam green tax parties of all, just when it's been exposed as a massive fraud.

9) They've not really changed that much since Jeremy Thorpe was leader or Charles Kennedy or…..

10) An update, [thanks to John Redwood]  and back to Vince Cable again..... he's a "serial flip-flopper"

I would rather fly in the face of 42 years of consistent Tory voting and vote Labour ( even with Gordon Broone at the helm) than suffer the open toed sandals of a powerbase of LibDem MP’s  nannying us into our graves that they will have us dug with our hard earned taxes.

A Final reminder to those of you who hate all things PC… beware the LibDems.

Who hate extra taxes, beware the LibDems

Green taxes, want them?  Beware the LibDems!

Ah that’s better now I have got it off my chest  and with thanks to John Redwoods own Web Pages!

http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/09/14/can-you-think-of-a-better-name-for-the-liberal-democrats/

Compulsive Viewing

The Department Store

Only on the BBC could you find such a gem as the programme on TV tonight. You could never have searched for this programme or even expected to find such comedy as was presented in this documentary about a Department store in Huddersfield (for my non British readers this is a town in the North of England, West Yorkshire). What added some unwitting comedy to this programme was the presence to one corner of the screen of a “signer” for the, rather oddly I thought, high number of deaf viewers that the BBC were clearly expecting to tune in. Her antics were only surpassed by some of the real life characters who appeared in the programmes and populated the town where Peter's (the Department Store) was situated. Its main customers, not one of whom was under the age of 60 were and it seems were and are Peter's staunchest supporters.

But for me, the star of the show had to be the lady who frantically waved her arms about and made appropriate, if not a bit contorted, faces to convey the various moods of high drama or sadness that accompanied her translation. These having be delivered in sound bites made off camera by the wonderfully droll Richard Macer, the narrator and cameramen all in one! One classic moment saw him in reflection as the lift doors opened to allow some elderly shoppers in to take the short upward journey to the restaurant. Another priceless moment came when another older lady told her husband to “just wait a minute, I'm having my photo taken” while she stood staring at the TV camera being held by Richard Macer. Amusingly he had clearly decided NOT to comment, instead happy to leave the poor woman waiting for the flash that never cam. Finally after what seemed a lifetime she said “OK, have you got it now” and wandered off to her bemused husband with a smile and a rather regal little wave.

Only on British TV and wonderful too... lets have more of this please!

"Strictly Come Dancing" still grabs our attention every weekend and also every night as Claudia Winkleman interviews the dancers and digs up all sorts of bit and pieces about the event... this is the first time that it's been hard to pick a winner!! I am sorry to say that this has become compulsive viewing but who cares.

X Factor, I am not so keen now that the insults have stopped but again I have to admit to keep watching. Sorry to see the lovely Spanish girl, Ruth Lorenzo, leave the show and I do wish she had sung in Spanish now and again.