Wild bird

This morning I was rudely roused from my bed to come and remove an area of soft grass cuttings as one of the hens was rumbled by Sheila as it had made a nest and was laying eggs al fresco and not in the nest box,as I raked away we found 3 eggs covered up with cuttings,unfortunately we had to chuck them away ,not knowing how old they were,it was the hen called Tina who was the culprit,and she is a bleeding nuisance as Bradley Charles Smith would say.
The rest of the day was spent concreting a post in which was loosened by the wind last monday,and calling in on Cockney Lil in the village to sort out the funds which were raised at the line dance.

Kansas City Sale

This morning I read Montana Mike's blog,he has put up a number of items for sale,I am pleased to be able to offer him $75. for the lot ,but he can keep the dogs,it seems he may be trying to make a comment of some kind with his action.
Yesterday we went on a shopping trip to Grimsby,Sheila shopped while I read the paper,she purchased a few items of clothing from a haute couture emporium,and a bag of mussels.
On our return to the little house on the prairie,the hen hut had been blown about 12 inches from its original siting by the exceptionally strong gusts of wind into the fence which saved it toppling over,I managed to level it up but need some help to move it back to its original base,luckily there were no hens in at the time.
Today is bowling day at the village hall a highlight of the week,it is also a market for the eggs surplus to requirements, and an opportunity to hear the latest progress on the hip replacements recently visited on many of the contestants.

Baubles Bangles and Beads

Fashion ! I note in some blogs that the wearing of certain clothes and glittering baubles is considered "sophisticated"sadly this does not fit in with a reasoned look at the subject,over time the wearing of suits by males has denoted a person divorced from manual work, and by definition someone in authority,the same applies to judicial figures,judges,lawyers etc. all tarted up to present a figure of authority,able to provide wise counsel to us lesser mortals.
Jewellery, gold is a malleable metal which is not a victim of oxidisation,and it glitters! other than it being a very bright metal what is its value? the value is an artificial one,diamonds are a very hard stone which has a use in drill bits which gives it a manufacturing value,it also glitters and combined with other baubles is decorative,but it only has a real value as a useful manufacturing accessory.
Works of art have a value which is the cost of materials used and the time spent in making them,any added value is not real but artificially arrived at,so the million £ $ values they fetch at auctions are false,but in our type of monetary system are traded as" status" symbols,ie "look how rich and powerful I am!"
The fashion houses(you must not call them factories)come up with ridiculous Ideas which may or may not look good on ultra thin females,and jutting jawed males devoid of beer bellies, but the monetary rich can buy them for ridiculously high prices as status symbols,the lesser mortals make do with inferior mass market copies, so aping your "betters" is the name of the game for most fashion lovers.
Real clothes are those made with a purpose and worn to carry out certain occupations ,ie overalls(coveralls) I believe they are known as in the USA,uniforms for military personnel(so you know who is on your side) protection against the weather and so on.
I was motivated into this little philosophical treatise by the sea mist blowing in and spoiling the weather and recent fashion comments on blogs, hopefully the weather will improve and we can get back to our fairly philosophy free musings .

Dick Turpin is alive and well in Sheffield

As you can see from sheila's blog we were robbed of £60,by Sheffield council for inadvertently straying into a bus lane,it is a little annoying,not the money but the principle.
Yesterday I went on the bike into Mablethorpe to buy a paper,on the way I saw a dead tawny owl on the grass verge ,it looked as if its wing had been broken but it was'nt mangled up as if a car had struck it,it upset me more than the highway robbery at Sheffield!!!
Sandra the pom in her blog does'nt believe that I am too cultured for Australia,which is good news as I was planning a visit, when I have saved up enough money I am already £60 down as a handicap, I hope they don't move without informing us!
Did another sign for Bob the (Toulouse) goose,he is starting to look like las vegas at his gate,trouble is he pays less than minimum wage and offers old tins of paint and metal shelving as an exchange,thats it for now as I have to post a letter bearing gifts to Sheffileld council.

Spring is on the way

I have been busy re routing a cable from the house to the garage,the security/courtesy light works from there,the old cable came from the existing conservatory at the front of the house ,which is to be demolished as it is wood and not really suitable, we have permission to replace it with a larger one of pvc and brick construction.
This morning I spotted the deer again in the small copse about half a mile to the west of the little house,on my journey to the village I saw an owl on the ground clutching a small mouse,and two great tits have taken up residence in the nestbox in the front garden, having killed the big mole,we now have a small one which will if all goes well join its relative,we think it is small because the mole hills are minor compared to the previous interloper, trap is set and battery operated mole repeller in situ,thats the wild life news for today.
It is the coffee morning at the village hall tomorrow( social life lived to the extreme here in the sticks), Le Blades may be there along with others and all the local gossip will be exchanged.
Spring is well on its way,daffodils are in bloom all over the place including at the little house,buds on all the bushes and trees,and the elderly couple who spend their winter 3 months in Spain are due to return on Saturday,Leonardo the husband informs me by phone he was 80 years old last week and the government have given him 25 pence weekly increase in pension!!!!!not quite the same deal as the banks is it.

From Russia with Soot!

Came across some interesting figures in the Sunday Telegraph,Britain uses 62 million tons of coal a year producing electricity,17 million are mined in Britain,and we import 22 million from Russia,
as we are sitting on 300 years supply of coal at rates of extraction during the mid 1980's,does the closure of our mines look like a commercial or political measure? whichever answer you come up with it makes poor sense.
Think of all the jobs it would create in our impoverished coalfield areas,and how it would help our economy,perhaps its too simple for the political classes to understand.
MeanwhileIi have been busy with loads of work,so no credit crunch here on the prairie,even did a job in a pub this afternoon,though it's not open yet.
After a sunny start we had heavy showers and now the sun is out again ,not as warm as Queensland though.

The Iron Heel

Today is the 25th anniversary of the start of the miners strike,when the miners tried to stop the closure of mines,and were subjected to violence by the thatcher government,and described by that woman as the enemy within,not a new idea,as Churchill initiated similar atrocities in Tonypandy Wales,the BBC manipulated films by selective editing to show the miners as the aggressors,and in the end the lads who only wanted to work for a living were cast on the scrapheap, there is still much bitterness in mining areas and rightly so.
Jack London the author wrote a book ,The Iron Heel which described the way that so called democracies would use force to crush the working class,and was proven to be something of a prophet by the action of the thatcher government .

Mining Family

I received my grandad Millson's birth certificate today from Doncaster,it shows my great grandad's occupation in 1862 as ,,yes its coalminer,so it looks like I am part of the coalmining aristocracy.
The mormon church have got all the ancestral info sown up,and yes this is the very organisation who tried to keep us hostage in the town of liberty,in february last year,on the pretext of showing us the jail where jesse james was held.
The Poms are back blogging and I expect will be giving us a different slant on the family holiday being enjoyed in Queensland.
Must go now as football is on tv and I am home alone watching it while Sheila is dining out in style with the WI.

Moleslaughter at the Little House on the Prairie

After buying mole repelling powder(non toxic) which smells like old garlic,and a battery operated repeller,this morning I noticed one of the original traps had sprung and on removing it there was a dead mole about 6 inches long and very fat,I have had traps sprung before but nothing in them,I wonder if the noise emitting machine sent the mole crazy and it scrabbled its way into the trap.
The good news is that unless there is another mole in there,the back garden should start to look more like a lawn and less like a ploughed field,had it not been so destructive we would have left it but they do wreak havoc.
Sheffield Utd. are playing Birmingham today at Bramall Lane and it's on sky kick off 12.15,Le Blades are at the match,and of course we shall watch it on sky,with Sheila wearing a red and white scarf(actually thats a lie about the scarf) I thought it would add interest to the blog,but we shall be cheering the Blades on, the Millers won away at Lincoln yesterday and seem the most consistent team playing in Sheffield at the moment, it should be mentioned that the Owls had an away win at Burnley much against the form books,its now 12 noon so I shall close and get ready for the game.