Mixed Emotions

A week of mixed emotions, started with a great meal in Oxford to celebrate my birthday (yep another year nearer retirement), during the meal I was surprised with a trip to Prague to check out the Czech folk. After leaving the restaurant I received a huge birthday present from our best friends, that nearly made me talk with a high pitch and now I’m a proud owner of a Chimenia, so I can now sit in the garden and burn wood and coal to keep warm while adding to the Global warming. For those snowy days (when its to cold), Gill gave me a USB turntable so I can now spend hours converting my vinyl to MP3’s and CD’s instead of spending a fortune replacing them at exorbitant cost, I also received loads of other presents to numerous to mention but extremely welcome all the same (thanks to all who contributed).

The week in general was work, work, work and then on Friday bad news day!

When we returned from Kenya we adopted a 3 week old baby elephant “Kilgoris” who had been rescued from the river near our Safari camp on the day we left Kenya. Well after responding very well to the treatment he received, he contracted E Coli and unfortunately passed away on the Wednesday (you can read his story at

http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?ID=114 ),Obviously both Gill and I are sad at his passing, but pleased that we had in a little way given him a little hope.

Which is more than can be said for the performance of Engish football team, there is no hope!!

Elvis is Alive

Yes I can guarantee that Elvis is alive! He scored the winning and second dodgy try for the French on Saturday to give France the 6 Nations Trophy, It's a shame, the Irish being greedy like the Welsh last week, could have won and taken the title.

Mind you the referee must have been on a different planet, allowing a try from a player off his feet playing the ball, allowing the final try that wasn't grounded (even Elvis admitted it wasn't a try) and then sending off the wrong man, perhaps he should try a different sport, like ballroom dancing, it's not so frantic.

The Welsh this week showed that they could play rugby after all, like the English team last week, although, I think the English were still having a siesta and once again underestimated their opponents determination to win.

Final note on this subject, I think the RBS need to train the referees to be consistent and ensure the lines men are responsible for ensuring the game is fair, even if it means overruling the referee, or perhaps just give them an eye test before each match.

A note of good cheer, Louis Hamilton, achieved 3rd place at the Melbourne F1 race today, at least some one in the UK has shown how to fly the flag.

Other news this week, if we don't cut our carbon emissions we are all going to be over run by the sea, so the experts say, funny that, even more prominent scientist say its the sea that is the biggest polluter and its not the carbon emissions that heat the earth but that big yellow ball in the sky, i think they call it the sun, either way were doomed, so I've decided just to get on with life today, for as the saying goes, "tomorrow never comes", having said that they have forecast snow for tomorrow, perhaps we are heading for another mini ice age.

Sorry about the colours, but one day I'll learn how to get the line spaces that I insert to work!!!

Another Weekend Cometh

Well since uploading our pictures to the Internet I've received many comments, all good so far, with a lot of interest in the animals and our tented holiday, for those who are interested perhaps you would like to take a look at;

http://www.governorscamp.com/default.htm.

I have had one major complaint and I must apologise for not including our best friends who made our stay on the Seychelles the greatest, so.

THANK YOU SARAH AND PAUL

Not only did they meet us on our arrival, make up the room with balloons and banners, organise the huge cake, drove us all over the island, and took most of the photo's, but most of all were the best company we could have wished for.

Hope I'm out of the dog house now!

Well another 6 Nations weekend approaches, do I watch the box all weekend and wait for a surprise or do I do the gardening?? not a great choice, perhaps I'll just stay in bed, or perhaps go boating on the lakes that have suddenly formed around the river Avon over the week. Bet there will still be a hose pipe ban this year.

And would you believe it Tesco's "Every Little Helps" certainly gave their customers a little extra that really didn't help.

Sainsbury's "Try Something New" gave unsuspecting customers something new that they really didn't want to try.

While Morrisons "Real Value" cost their customers a wad or two when they fueled the crisis of car owners and put a lot of dosh into the garage repairers pockets.

And not a single apology or how to make a claim on any of their web sites, perhaps they should TRY SOMETHING NEW and appreciate the REAL VALUE of their customers and make life easy for those unfortunate enough to have been caught up in this fiasco and give them as much help as possible because we all know EVERY LITTLE HELPS don't we.