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What can one say about last week. George Best's parts were offered up for donation.........surely not folks........anyone for his liver and all the other body parts that had failed........get a grip will you...............and he went the week that we are now able to drink 24/7! The West Country/Cornwall/Bodmin and Wales gave up because it snowed............how is that possible.......this is winter...........ah........could it just be because of total areshole drivers.....lets think now.....how old would they be 25-35yrs.....thats it then........that's the problem.....Thatchers Children.............don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.........pig ignorant.............they are unable to comprehend that snow and ice are actually SNOW and ICE and that they have particular properties that will almost certainly have consequences to road users should they have fallen or formed on the roads overnight. No matter how important the arsehole drivers think they are, ice and sno...

There we are, braving the elements, standing up for the rights of all free men and women in FE colleges in the UK.

The sky should have been pristine.....but every last bit of "cloud" was made from aircraft vapour trails......global dimming over London on a grand scale. "Nice to travel by plane though, innit?" 

Another.......... on the way to Gym photos....the frost was clinging to the shadow of the trees as the sun rose and started tracking across the sky. 

....and this is how it all began. 

until it's squashed crossing the road or the fox that pays visits to the garden has it for dinner................so where HAVE all the litlle beasts gone? Perhaps squirrel pie! Perhaps this new one is son of friendlly beast......perhaps not.....maybe this one is a mad cannibal squirrel that's noshed the rest of the family..........check the mad eye...even Picassa Red Eye Removal had no impact on it. Had a bad couple of days with gastric flu...serious vommiting, soooooooooooo intense my nose bled....not a pretty sight. 

Pooch was poisoned about three times with rat poison....not sure why, nor by whom but came back each time to wag the tail.

Today we were on strike across the nation............NATFE.....that is..............sad/cold, further education teachers stood outside colleges the length of the country with banners saying someting like.....give us some more money ...please............perhaps another 6,000 a year would not go amiss........it would just bring us up to the same wage as primary/secondary school teachers. 'fraid nobody is gonna listen....not after the "black propaganda" of the previous day when "FAILING FE COLLEGES TO BE SOLD OFF TO PRIVATE COMPANIES" was the news item on all the media.............strange really...the timing........and not a word was said about the strike the next day. My view on strike action as changed..........until today I was a scab......I worked through every strike called................my students were more important to me. However, last year I cracked up, the workload was unsustainable..........the advice I was given was "Do your job badly, that'...

What a great Avenue.......what a great country.... ...what a great big number of $zim's to the pound......now around $Z175,000.00.....word on the street is that there will be $Z700,000.00 to the $US by the end of the year................what a great big f**k up. 

Set up a new computer yesterday. Not too sure how every thing is working yet..... so posted a test pic...and it all worked....which is cool. Picture of tiny shower room. The French kids are still rioting in the streets around the country...... I bet the government is hoping for some early snow..........there's nothing like crap weather to take the edge off things. The intergration thing is a hard one for many.......I want to intergrate...but I am scared-I am a different colour-my accent/language is different-my food is other and I pray to strange gods. They (people, largely of good will) are not too sure they want me to intergrate, nor reckon I can because of my colour-and because my accent and language is different-my food is something else and I pray to strange gods..................so..... it suites everyone that I stay in my own little ghetto with other aliens.... similar to me and I intergrate with them..........and....well......... this can sort of work while the economy is ...

A few images taken from the top of Bus 77a from Waterloo towards Vauxhall. I will have to remember to do everything in revese when posting images ...............signs of our times. Posted by Picasa

bus terminus...spy building....and nothing much else............apart from being a good pic. Posted by Picasa

......and so we travel on.............or backwards...depends on which way you approach this thing.......glass fronted apartments at Lambeth Bridge/Lambeth Palace circle. Posted by Picasa

....just a few more paces up/down the road at St Thomas's Hospital....fine looking building to be ill in! Posted by Picasa

View from the 77 A ......number two....10th November Posted by Picasa

View from the 77A Posted by Picasa

Had a thought today about how fragile some believers are in their God and their beliefs. Just about anything and everything seems to be able to threaten them.......what's this all about folks? Did the God who created everything actually, really, honestly, no word of a lie create everything? Thats seems to be the crunch...."Yes they say...yes he/she/it did"......"Okay then", I say "Deal with DNA, evolution and all that jazz" "Oh No" they say......that's not in the Bible...he did not create THAT. How sad it is that they mistrust their God and themselves so much that they feel threatened by a perfectly locical, feasable, rational set of facts and evidence of how things function....................................................................................................................... ............... that the crazy old beast............spirituality......that spark of living...that twinkle in the eye of pain and joy and how am I in ...

Rye Common...autumn colours...on the way to gym Posted by Picasa

The Crow Woman..on the way...... Posted by Picasa

Bit of red on the way to gym Posted by Picasa

Peckham Rye Garden...on the way to gym Posted by Picasa

On the way to Gym this morning Posted by Picasa

The end of the holiday with threadbare flag. Posted by Picasa

View at Keri lighthouse Posted by Picasa

Villa Fiore, Kaminia Beach, 9 kms towards Vassilikos from Zakynthos Tel: 26950 35468 35204 and Soula Kolokosta is the very lovely woman who runs the place with her sons and other family members. Posted by Picasa

Gerakas beach Posted by Picasa

Life savers tower Gerakas Beach Posted by Picasa

and the colours really were that good...the food was fantastic...if you are ever in the area its the Orizontes Resaurant Tel 26950 3167 Posted by Picasa

Down Town Zak Posted by Picasa

Door Grill Posted by Picasa

St Marks Square Zakynthos Posted by Picasa

Windy, overcast but warm Kalamaki beach Posted by Picasa

The last day on Zakynthos.....even the grass umbrellas have been removed....that's the very last day of the season folks...the Olives need picking. Posted by Picasa

An update on the Zimbabwean dollar....$Z175,000.00 = Sterling 1.00....(can't seem to get the pound symbol) that was in the middle of this last week...perhaps it is now 200 thou? Posted by Picasa

A week already...whew....a weeks holiday is no better than a long lunch break...if that. College is the same as ever....new ballots for strikes.....while the world just keeps moving on. Riots in France for over a week now.....the French always seem to have a good time rioting...in 68 they changed the politics. Not too sure what they will achieve this time. The Dutch never riot.......... I don't think.......too middle class.......even the underclass in Holland are middle class! Pakistan president is pissed off with the world for not giving more aid.....c'mon world......give more aid! Perhaps because Pakistan now has a special relationship with the USA, in fact a special SPECIAL cosy relationship that the rest of the world........that they think the US should cough up for any disaster that befalls them. Stupid world......think about the people not the politicians. ............and so it goes.

Well, have just returned from Zakynthos or Zante. Apart from a couple of dull weather days ...one at the start and the other at the end.....and a hotel that smelt of dead dogs, babyshit and nicotine stained underwear.....it was a good place to be. We escaped the Kalamaki resort and hotel with a hired car...and with the good sense of Isolde we went down a track to look at a Villa on the beach.....a good ten kilometers from the rooms from hell and with a mountain range in between. What a good move. We met Soula, the widow of Ville Fiore, who was beautiful, charming and deserved the money we paid for the rooms....in fact even more...money that is. From then on it was a daily vist to Zycanthos Town....a wheel around the views...and every second day a 10K run. The food scene...whew.....some desperately bad mistakes....and some gems. That's it for now...will post more pics as the week passes. Posted by Picasa

Good food! Posted by Picasa

View from Kiri Lighthouse Posted by Picasa

A night on the town Posted by Picasa

Light entertainment Kalamaki...or Malakali...or even Crap resort Posted by Picasa

End of day......Gerakis beach Posted by Picasa

Very tidy angles...the best building Posted by Picasa

Greek view Posted by Picasa

Green doors...da da... dah de dah...green doors...and so it goes Posted by Picasa

A town square Posted by Picasa

Leaving the first hotel with two new punters taking over vacated rooms Posted by Picasa

Door at No 3 Posted by Picasa

Street Talk Posted by Picasa

The Harbour-Day One Posted by Picasa