Or is that, it depends how its brought up. Cos we all know Dogs are mans best friend dont we.
Article in Cambridge News on Monday about a man laying on Newmarket Heath who was assuaulted and bitten by a group of three dogs while there owners watched!
Also yesterday I was working at a garden and a delivery van turns up, on hearing a dog calling from the house next door he was due to go to, I says dont worry mate, its a good dog and the owner is there. He smirked and said look at this. Under his left forear were two trenches about an inch long and an eight of an inch deep surrounded by congealed blood.
He says; at me last delivery a dog went for me with no warning or anything.
I know its not the dogs fault, its how they have been taught or learnt to behave by there owners, what have we come to though when people can get away with letting dogs behave like this.
I know of a park where in a dog attack and I do mean attack just outside its gates, the dog left a tooth in the victims leg.
Dogs might be mans best friend, I just dont think man is mans best friend at times and that some people have no respect whatsoever for other people.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Friday, 30 May 2014
gasguns, gadwall and eat your greens
A week or so ago in the Cambridge News, this chap had written in a letter which they published having a right go at the use of gasguns in fields to scare of pigeons and other birds that eat the crops close to/in the same filed as the guns. There was this comment about farmers being behind the times etc etc and on and on he went about new technology.
Saw a bit of the new technology today coming back from a bird survey, a field with a tethered hawk model flying high and jinking about, under neath it taking no notice a nice flock of wood pigeons scoffing away, undoubtedly thinking that pretend hawk will keep real ones away.
I mentioned a bird survey because I still look at some land on a farm near Ely, and yes they have gasguns in some fields to try and keep birds away and you cannot blame them really after all farmers need to make money as well as grow food. They have flooded some more fields this year to control soil pests, I imagine growing three or four crops a year of salad on a field leads to a buildup of pests. The flooded fields are a magnet for waterbirds with a lovely range of ducks on them at the moment, with Great Crested and Little Grebes diving away, the Little Grebes in particular calling almost non stop.
What were the crops the gas guns were protecting you want to know, Lettuce, in the shops soon fresh for you, habdpicked from lord knows o'clock this morning by gangs of fold who I bet are not paid that much and who are picked on by Nigel Barrage Balloon which takes me back to gasguns.
Saw a bit of the new technology today coming back from a bird survey, a field with a tethered hawk model flying high and jinking about, under neath it taking no notice a nice flock of wood pigeons scoffing away, undoubtedly thinking that pretend hawk will keep real ones away.
I mentioned a bird survey because I still look at some land on a farm near Ely, and yes they have gasguns in some fields to try and keep birds away and you cannot blame them really after all farmers need to make money as well as grow food. They have flooded some more fields this year to control soil pests, I imagine growing three or four crops a year of salad on a field leads to a buildup of pests. The flooded fields are a magnet for waterbirds with a lovely range of ducks on them at the moment, with Great Crested and Little Grebes diving away, the Little Grebes in particular calling almost non stop.
What were the crops the gas guns were protecting you want to know, Lettuce, in the shops soon fresh for you, habdpicked from lord knows o'clock this morning by gangs of fold who I bet are not paid that much and who are picked on by Nigel Barrage Balloon which takes me back to gasguns.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
missing a trick
There was an article in the Cambridge News on the 3rd Jan about what they called Sci Fi funerals.
Bit of a morbid subject this but well how do we deal with people who die, we all will one day so at Cambridge Crematorium they are looking at the future to a more commercial approach to hadling death. Yes thats right given these straightened times they are looking at making more money out of death.
Currently we have burial and cremation both long established methods but are they green enough! Hmmnn, well apparently those folks in the good old USA have been looking at this says the paper and have come up with another couple of greener methods that they have begun using there.
Hold onto your stomachs now, method one involves freezing to remove moisture then crushing to a fine powder which can be composted, method two involves dissolving in an alkali to get a green brown liquid didnt say what happens to that. Do you still get the body back as it were as with ashes or will we end up saying our final goodbyes when the curtain closes.
Now I have to admit I am a bit old fashioned here, making money out of death is another case of "we are all in this together" even when you are dead or grieving for the loss of a loved one. As for the two methods that are being looked at, are we getting to a stage where once the coffin has gone the body becomes the property of the crematorium to do with as they will in whatever manner that might raise a few more pounds. Are we there already.
Got me wondering though, sci fi films are so often closer than you think in the end, anyone else remember that film Soylent Green from the 1960's. And yes they are thinking about a cafe at the crematorium.
Bit of a morbid subject this but well how do we deal with people who die, we all will one day so at Cambridge Crematorium they are looking at the future to a more commercial approach to hadling death. Yes thats right given these straightened times they are looking at making more money out of death.
Currently we have burial and cremation both long established methods but are they green enough! Hmmnn, well apparently those folks in the good old USA have been looking at this says the paper and have come up with another couple of greener methods that they have begun using there.
Hold onto your stomachs now, method one involves freezing to remove moisture then crushing to a fine powder which can be composted, method two involves dissolving in an alkali to get a green brown liquid didnt say what happens to that. Do you still get the body back as it were as with ashes or will we end up saying our final goodbyes when the curtain closes.
Now I have to admit I am a bit old fashioned here, making money out of death is another case of "we are all in this together" even when you are dead or grieving for the loss of a loved one. As for the two methods that are being looked at, are we getting to a stage where once the coffin has gone the body becomes the property of the crematorium to do with as they will in whatever manner that might raise a few more pounds. Are we there already.
Got me wondering though, sci fi films are so often closer than you think in the end, anyone else remember that film Soylent Green from the 1960's. And yes they are thinking about a cafe at the crematorium.
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