Once again....

 

 

Well lambing season is here once again. Its cold and wet, and snow is even settling high on the hill tops. Once again the land is saturated and sheep are having to be moved to dryer fields that should be kept clear until later. Its a case of " robbing Peter to pay Paul " again this year. All is being gambled on some dry weather coming in the next 10 days. It will come as it has to. If not then we will see a mud bath and disaster. Its funny how this situation on a knife edge knife edge occurs most Springs now. Above are some lambs we are bottle feeding as their mothers are not producing  enough milk for them to thrive properly. We have so far 3 today, and maybe another tomorrow...

Chain messages..... Grrrrrrrr !!

If there is one thing I cant stand it's chain type letters or more accurately messages sent to me on facebook. I look in my message box too often only to find a complicated sequence of events I must pass on to umpteen other people " I know " in order to see some miraculous occurrence manifest itself upon me. This event has even been narrowed down to the next 30 minutes ! Wow, how do they do that, eh ? Must be old school magic....
  What really pisses me of further is when such a message suggests that if I fail to complete their silly task that it is a judgement on my attitude to them, the sender. What a load of horse sh1t ! It is a judgement on the sender that he or she feels the need to pressure me into playing their silly game, besides with all the viruses around at the moment such messages are just plain stupid and risky. And believe me when I say that I would never judge you on whether or not a chain message of mine ( should I ever send one ) was or was not acted upon. It is a silly idea given too much attention. I just ignore them. I also ignore the ones telling me to post things on other peoples behalf on facebook. Do it yourself. Its not my problem if you got blocked by someone you knew or even by facebook itself !!!  Got blocked for that post about 911 conspiracy you made ? NOT MY PROBLEM !!!

Gears of War ( an attempt to make this post sound more interesting )

This weekend saw the first sunny warm day of the year. It also saw me with a weekend to myself and the whole house to myself. So what else would I do other than take my freshly mended car out for a blast, and blast is the operative word here as the power is quite ridiculous.
  Well things went very well as all was happy in the garden as they say until I noticed movement and wear in the gears that had previously been OK, but not in the ones that had been fixed under warranty...The garage has obviously just fixed the gears that I told them had wear. I guess they have done their part, but the whole range might as well been renewed while the box was out, especially when that group of gears are notorious for all wearing together and even affecting each other.
  Friends say send the car back under warranty, but I just wonder what will be wrong next time it comes back Cars have taught me a lot through all the stress of the last few months. They have brought about mental changes in me, quite profound ones at that.

UPDATE :

Super Troll !!

I have an unusual problem. I befriended a man on facebook a couple of months ago who was at that time just a bit of a joker. It turns out now that he is a troll. He delights in suddenly changing his happy go lucky attitude to an abusive one. He also delights in trying to cultivate the idea that im trying it on with my female facebook friends. Of course he gets great mileage out of these jaunts, but eventually people get tired of the joke and it wears thin. I never know who he has been winding up on my wall when I log on in a morning. I have tried to block him but his name is not recognized by facebook and I unfriended him a few days ago, and I unfriended him again this morning !! Ive blocked plenty of people before, but none have been unblockable, they may have had multiple accounts but I rooted them out eventually. I don't know what to do next. Maybe report this to facebook if it continues ?

Deliverance (1972) Theatrical Trailer HQ

Is America scared of its own back yard  ?

Ive always liked Rob Zombie, even his solo work is original. He is never afraid to push things forward and blending a funk type sound into a metal track works well. It gives the track a fresh sound. This reminds me very much of The Almighty's brass section in All Sussed Out. Pure genius !!

I had a phone call today. Autoglass have cancelled the fitting of my windscreen again today

We are now on week 5 and the 6th attempt to get this windscreen fitted. Im guessing the 7th attempt will succeed as most things cannot hold out more than 7 times. This is not coincidence. Something is very wrong here.

Prodigy - Mescaline (Molotov Beatz Remix) HQ

Men ; We cant just walk down the street can we !!

Tubeway Army / Gary Numan - Are 'friends' electric?

This track brings back a haze of emotions...Feels like its always been just beneath the surface of my mind. Awesome.

Gary Numan - Cars

I couldn't help myself....

Prehaps you'd better start at the begining....

It all started with a pot hole, a rather big pot hole that I hit in my car one night. I buckled a wheel and damaged  a tyre. Not a big deal until I discovered the wheel bearing was damaged and a hub and a calliper and a drive shaft got damaged as I removed it from my car. Hence I ordered a hub off ebay. The second hand hub arrived bent, the second hand drive shaft arrived with damage too and was useless and the brake calliper from a local parts shop was for the wrong side when I opened the box.
   Nobody gives a damn any more about the parts they sell on ebay. They price them cheaply so its not worth your while posting them back. A crafty trick. Once they have your money they don't care. Any way after several frustrating weeks my car is back together, but the worst is yet to come as the windscreen needed replacing. Well im not messing around doing that. I called in a professional national firm to fit it. Autoglass. What could possibly go wrong now ?

   Autoglass arrived one morning to remove broken screen. Unfortunately the man said he must return in a weeks times as it was a 2 man job to remove the old screen ? OK, fair enough. Another week later 2 men turned up with a new screen but that one had a damaged electrical connection. They fitted it any way as a weather proofing fix and would replace it in another week with a new hopefully correct one. Another week later I get a phone call. Appointment cancelled. Another week later ( today ) the wrong glass is stock. Next Friday is now D - day, but im not holding my breath. I make it that im in week 4 now of waiting. Oh and the car I bought recently is back in the garage having a gearbox repair done under warranty. So what have I learnt this past month. Why have things gone so badly wrong ?

  My paranoid side says that the window screen firm is having a laugh. The receptionist when I ring up is a Scottish youth. He sounds tinny and false on the phone. He doesn't have any gravitas about him. He even sounds slightly amused somehow. Why cant people stick to a date to get work done ? The same thing happened this morning when Halfords rang me up to change an appointment to fit a car CD player in my wifes car. People just cannot stick to a time or date. It is as though they compulsive urge to change said date at last minute.

  Another reason things have gone so wrong is that nobody cares about the items they are selling anymore or whether they are damaged. As long as they get their money they don't give a fudge anymore. In fact people just buy a whole new car rather than mess around fixing it. I am an outdated person who fixes things. Truth be told I haven't the energy for that anymore. The number 23 has started appearing again so there is more turmoil and change ahead once more... I need to look again at what my expectations are of any firm doing work for me, and then revise them downwards. In fact ive already started with Halfords. I will be very surprised if they actually fit a CD player on a Friday. The employee who rang up today to change the time muttered  something about it being due to a mans shift finishing. Bloody hell he we go again...

   I feel a lot better for writing this down as I have been filled with anger about how times and people are so useless recently. Its a sad reflection on what weve become. In fact such a sea change is quite worrying and it makes me tense. It is uncomfortable to think that your actions may have to be decided by what requires the least energy to do or the easiest option. No longer can I rely on other people. Those days have gone for ever