Greetings from sunny Sheffield
Well, last night I got off the tram and walked to the bike-shelter whereI'd left my push-bike, only to find that some scum-bag had stolen my pump and repair tools from my saddle bag! Usually I take my saddle bag off my bike and keep it on me, but I'd forgotten yesterday just the one time, and bingo, along comes a low-life and steals the stuff! This is one of Britain's greatest problems - lack of respect. I'm certain it's worse here than many countries - Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Turkey, Japan all have cultures where respect between people is a very important part of society, but here in England (in particular - Scotland is much better, at least away from the cities) the victim has little importance and the state spends millions of "re-educating" offenders with their soft-centred police-force and their welfare-state-do-good-handout system that elevates criminals to hero status. OK, I'm getting carried away - the theft of a bike-pump is no cause for such an outburst, is it? Well, actually, yes it is! A bike-pump today is a bike tomorrow and a car the next day and a burglary the next - lock them up in a cold and dark room with bread and water for a week, that's what I say, even for a bike-pump and then scale up the punishment accordingly. Give the victim a token to replace his/her stolen goods and take it out of the benefit system. Wow - I used to be left wing; never has a man swung so violently to the right, eh?
OK, next, my "Shrinking Apple" that was received well in the department's Art Exhibition this year has developed. The image as you see shows the original apple, now in a pretty disgusting state of decay, along with another apple (about 3 weeks old) beginning its journey. I'm looking out for a tapered glass vase so that I can create the Mother of All Shrinking Apples containing a series of apples in progressive states of decay down to the bottom of the vase for next year's exhibition. I will use these two apples and hopefully add around 7 or 8 more! Have a great day and remember to unclip your saddle bags!!!!
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Wow, and I thought I right wing, obviously I've got a thing or two to learn. I hope your management technique isn't going the way of your politics or soon you'll be running your students in a style slightly to the right of Ghengis Kahn!
That's a good idea, Ben! I can see myself as ol' Ghengis! I think that shifting right politically is very common with age and is really a manifestation of how we become more selfish as we get older. But the UK government is pretty bad at taking a lot from those who have worked very hard to better themselves and dishing it out to those who have never given a damn. Obviously there are the vulnerable and needy who need state help and whom I would always support, but the low-life that simply cannot be bothered have no place in society and are best sent to some distant island I think! Of course, we cannot use Australia any more unfortunately!
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