"B.O.T.T.O.M.S."

All this wet weather certainly gets the grass growing. My lawn has had to have a second cut already.

The trouble is once you start cutting it seems to grow twice as fast to recover.

In the news this week more bits about mowing.

First off, is this poor chap from Wiltshire, who has been banned from trimming a communal patch of grass after 43 years - for H & S reasons. (Here we go again).

Graham Alexander regularly mows, weeds, rakes and clears the verge of other people's litter daily. ....Well done Sir........but

Wiltshire Council has accused him of encroaching on its property and endangering public health claiming he or a neighbour could be injured by the mower or flying debris. 

He has now been ordered to leave the job to council contractors - or face possible prosecution.

Now......how about this for an idea? 

It would appear that those people with large amounts of grass to keep under control are turning to home-bred wallabies to do it for them. 

Theses little chaps are thousands of miles from their native Outback but are increasingly replacing sheep, horses and geese in scores of country gardens and fields. 

All prospective owners need to keep their lawns clipped are half an acre of land, a lot of grass and a large fence. 

Trevor Lay, who runs Waveney Wildlife, of Bungay, Suffolk, has seen demand soar. He has been breeding wallabies for 25 years and is the biggest private supplier in the UK. 

 

The wallabies cost £150 for a male and £600 to £700 for a female, while the sought-after albino wallabies fetch £1,000 for a female and about £500 for a male. 

They are sold in pairs because wallabies like living in a social group. 

Mr Lay said "They are timid creatures and really harmless but adults will growl if their young are threatened. And they don’t like dogs.” 

He takes care to ensure his wallabies go to proper homes with plenty of space for them to roam safely and freely and a fence or wall at least five feet high

So that scuppers it for me.....half an acre and a five foot fence!

Ah well. Back to the drawing board or as we used to say at work...."BOTTOMS"

(Back Over To The Old Manual System)

 

Painful Memories of NuLabour

A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists.

As if the world wasn't scary enough? 

A lecturer in medical ethics at St George's, University of London, said: 'Removing bad memories is not like removing a wart or a mole. It will change our personal identity since who we are is linked to our memories. 

'It may perhaps be beneficial in some cases, but before eradicating memories, we must reflect on the knock-on effects that this will have on individuals, society and our sense of humanity.' 

But British experts warned the drug raises some difficult questions. 

Professor John Harris, an expert in biological ethics at the University of Manchester, said: 'It is obviously up to the individual whether or not she wishes to risk the possible effects, including psychological discontinuity, of erasing unpleasant memories. 

Would it work on erasing the memories of the last 10 yrs?

No doubt some Labour low life politician is planning to put this in the water supply before the next general election, so that we all happily vote for them...again.

No more mind altering drugs, we have more than enough in society already, doing untold damage.

"More Nanny Meddling"

The latest Nanny campaign is to get us to switch to lower fat milk: and that grating cheese, instead of slicing it, could cut our risk of dying from heart disease.

Surely 2oz of grated cheese contains the same ammount of sat-fat as 2oz of sliced cheese.

"A new awareness campaign suggests tips which could save an estimated 3,500 lives by cutting the nation's consumption of sat-fat."

Or, in other words, 3500 more miserable people, giving up any enjoyment of food in favour of a few more years of a joyless existence.

It's my life. I only get one, and it's too short not to enjoy it.