Wednesday - July 16, 2014
another barking mad judgement
The Brits call something like this, Barking Mad.
Which of course it is.
I can not imagine this actually getting anywhere but then, these days where down is up, I can’t rule it out either. Can’t say as I blame the farmer in the story, as it’s pretty hard to believe he’d come up with this all on his own. The skunk in the room has to be a lawyer.
Oh ... gee. Well what a surprise.
Anyway, this is another one ... for the books.
Ethiopian farmer gets legal aid… To sue us for sending aid to Ethiopia: Case that will be funded by taxpayers branded as ‘ridiculous’ by MPs
Ethiopian man launches taxpayer funded legal action against British Government despite never having set foot in the country
Farmer claims ministers are funding a one-party state in his homeland that has helped regime inflict ‘brutal treatment’ on thousands
Taxpayers will pay for both the farmer’s lawyers and a defence team from the Department for International Development
Legal action has been branded as farcical, bizarre and ridiculous by MPs angry he was able to lodge court documents before law changeBy James Slack and Ian Drury
An Ethiopian farmer has won permission to use taxpayers’ money to sue the British Government ... for sending aid to his homeland.
The case, branded ridiculous by MPs, will be funded entirely by the public even though the farmer has never set foot in this country.
The 33-year-old Ethiopian – granted anonymity to protect his family – says ministers are funding a one-party state in his country that has breached his human rights. He says foreign aid helped the regime inflict ‘brutal treatment’ on thousands of farmers driven from their land, against the International Development Act 2002.
Taxpayers will pay for both the farmer’s lawyers and a defence team from the Department for International Development, in a case that could cost tens of thousands of pounds. This is in addition to the £1.3billion Britain has sent to Ethiopia since 2010.
The farmer lodged the court papers from Kenya, before Justice Secretary Chris Grayling introduced rules to prevent cases being brought by those who have never set foot in the UK. The changes, which come into force next month, will mean anybody seeking legal aid in civil cases must have been resident in Britain for at least 12 months.
A Whitehall source said: ‘Whatever hardships this man has faced, the idea that someone without any connection to this country can get public money to sue the Government borders on the farcical.’
Tory MP Peter Bone, a fierce critic of UK aid policy, said the legal action was ‘bizarre’, adding: ‘This is a ridiculous case and it is ridiculous there is legal aid for it.’ However, he added: ‘If money is going to a corrupt regime and somebody is pointing that out then we should be taking note of it. That is the problem. A lot of the money goes on propping up corrupt regimes.’
And speaking of lawyers ....
LAW FIRM THAT’S DONE IT BEFORE
Leigh Day has earned vast sums in legal aid by bringing cases against the Government on behalf of overseas clients.
Last year the firm won compensation worth almost £20million for 5,200 Kenyans who were tortured and abused during the Mau Mau rebellion in the Fifties and Sixties.
It is also heavily involved in the Al Sweady Inquiry, examining claims that troops executed and tortured Iraqis at a camp near Basra in 2004.
The hearings have already cost taxpayers £27million, despite evidence linking the men to a ‘terrorist organisation’.
The farmer, referred to as, O, is being represented by Rosa Curling of Leigh Day. Her law firm has already brought a string of human rights-based legal aid cases against the State on behalf of overseas claimants who say they have suffered ill-treatment due to government policies.
Ministers had urged the High Court to reject the latest claim, but Mr Justice Warby said yesterday it was ‘reasonable’ for O to believe there was a link between the Department for International development handing aid to Ethiopia and alleged human rights abuses.
He said O may launch a judicial review to argue the department had ‘failed to have in place any sufficient process to assess Ethiopia’s compliance with the express conditions for receiving UK aid – or to follow such process’. International Development Secretary Justine Greening, who is named as the respondent on the court papers, denies the claims.
A department spokesman said: ‘The UK has never funded Ethiopia’s resettlement programmes. Our support to the Protection of Basic Services Programme is only used to provide essential services like healthcare, schooling and clean water.’
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 09, 2014
bakery may face court for refusal to decorate a cake promoting queer marriage
Notice please the charge made, namely that the bakery refused the order based on the fact that the customer was queer.
But that is not so at all.
The way I first heard the story was . . .
The customer wanted a slogan on the cake that said “Support Gay Marriage” and the bakery refused to do that. End of story. Or it would have been if the bakery were muslim owned. But no.
It’s apparently still open season on Christians.
The bakery did not want any part of a gay rights campaign. They’d sell em the cake sure nuff, but wouldn’t add the words encouraging goofy marriage. But you all know how these things go. Indeed, how they start. It’s always a pressure group that targets ppl they know in advance will be in opposition to them and so, bingo! A cause and a legal case.
Being Ireland, I’m surprised that no gunmen have settled the pressure group’s hash by now.
Maybe there’s hope tho.
Ashers Baking Company: ‘Gay cake’ row could end up in court
A Christian-run bakery that refused a customer’s request to make a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage could face a discrimination case in court.
Ashers Baking Company declined an order from a gay rights activist, asking for cake featuring the Sesame Street puppets, Bert and Ernie.
The customer also wanted the cake to feature the logo of a Belfast-based campaign group called “Queerspace”.
The County Antrim firm could face legal action from the Equality Commission.
The watchdog confirmed it is assisting the customer whose order was refused and has written to the baking company on his behalf.
The cake was ordered for a civic event in Bangor Castle Town Hall, County Down, to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Christian beliefsThe bakery, which was founded in Newtownabbey in 1992, is run by the McArthur family.
The directors, who are Christians, operate six shops in Northern Ireland and employ 62 people.
The firm’s 24-year-old general manager, Daniel McArthur, said marriage in Northern Ireland “still is defined as being a union between one man and one woman” and said his company was taking “a stand”.
Mr McArthur added that his firm offered the customer a full refund, which was collected shortly after the order was refused.
“We thought that was the end of it, but approximately six weeks later we received a letter from the Equality Commission. The Equality Commission’s letter said that we had discriminated against the customer on the grounds of his sexual orientation.
“It asked us to propose how we would recompense the customer for this discrimination. It also said it would pursue legal proceedings if we didn’t respond within a seven-day time period,” Mr McArthur said.
CONTINUED PLUS BRIEF VIDEO , BBCTV
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Permalink • Sunday - July 06, 2014
Plumb amazing
The first rule of homeowner repairs: when something isn’t working right, take it apart, clean it up, lubricate it if necessary, and put it back together. 90% of the time that fixes things, or at least delays the inevitable for another half year or so.
We had a drippy knob in the shower. We’ve got one of those mono-lever showers, American Standard circa 1978. Pull the little knob on the tub faucet to make the shower run, and adjust the hot/cold and flow volume with one big knob on this Twist and Pull shaft. And a few weeks ago it started being real hard to push in and out. And a couple days ago the only way we could get the water to shut off was to turn the dial to cold and then lean on the knob as hard as we could. Right. So Saturday it went past that point, and started dripping no matter what. And today it was rather pissing out.
So I turned off the water as much as it goes ( must get a real plumber in one of these days to put in a real valve, not the ancient POS valve there that works at best 95% ), and started the good fight. You know the drill. Run around the house and locate every tool you think might be necessary. Pull up a How To video on YouTube, only to find out that it’s for a Moen valve, and you’ve got American Standard. Close enough? We’ll see.
Go at it, but at least this time you’re being smart, thinking ahead, and you’ve got a wash cloth stuffed in the tub drain. Because of screws, washers, and other suicidal parts. Not this time you bastards! Take everything apart. Get stuck on the collar, go back to YouTube. It says it slides off. Right. Really!! Be partway into watching another How To video when the wife comes over with the collar. Say What??? She got it off by worrying it back and forth a million times, but it came off. Fine. Great. Move ahead. Figure out how to pull the copper clip, get it out. Worry the cartridge out, pray that a zillion gallons of water don’t come shooting out with it.
Rub down the cartridge, wipe off some corrosion, inspect the washers, spin them around a bit, give the whole thing a good spray of WD-40. Dig around in the cylinder with a long screwdriver to see if anything else wants to fall out. Nothing. Fine. Put the cartridge back in, don’t forget the little C clip, lean on it real hard, get the Mrs. to wiggle the retaining clip in 85%. Figure that the decorative steel retaining collar will hold it in, so tap that one back on with several dozen light, precise whaps with a 3lb drilling hammer. Yeah. Mr. Big Hammer does it again!! Screw the front plate on, screw on the knob. Drips? No. Turn the water back on. Drips? No. Good enough. Don’t touch it until morning. We don’t need showers right now, and with the water on we can flush the toilet or rinse some dishes in the kitchen sink. Good enough. Oh, let’s fill a few plastic jugs with water just in case, so we’ll have a couple flushes if it all goes to hell in the morning. With luck, we won’t need the plumber. Not yet, not yet.
Good enough for now. Time for a drink.
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Permalink • Friday - June 20, 2014
gender neutral the word from Vancouver, transgender kindergardens with separate bathrooms.
Vancouver, Canada. School row on transgender terms
The Vancouver school board is introducing gender-neutral pronouns ‘xe’, ‘xem’, and ‘xyr’ to help support transgender students.
Meanwhile, controversy is raging over its plans to introduce separate bathrooms for transgender students in all schools, including kindergardens.
And that people …. is our politically correct world today.
Stay tuned cos you know there’s more to come and possibly on a grander scale.
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In other news and from the USA …. a few might be interested but the question will be, will anybody actually want one?
Harley is working on an electric motorcycle which will be on show in NY next week.
They plan a 30 state ride to collect further info and estimate another 3 or 4 years of research in the works before going into production.
Whodda thought. An electric Harley. I’m not a marketing guy so I shouldn’t make too serious an opinion here but. Will there really be a market for an item like that?
When I think Harley I imagine ,, Vrooooooooommmm.
I don’t hear ,, hum,hum,hummmmmmmmmmm, in association with Harley.
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Permalink • Monday - June 16, 2014
PAYING A FLYING VISIT AND BACK TO BED.
Difficult days not to mention nights. What the heck. Many have worse than a nagging back ache.
Allow me to introduce you to a loving, kind and civilized family member.
Not mine thankfully.
Just another member of the ROP.
Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for apostasy, was “given a magic potion” to bewitch her into leaving Islam – and should be executed for doing so, her brother has said.
Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah said that he denounced his sister to the authorities because his family are “Muslim people.” He claimed that Ms Ibrahim, 27, was born as Abrar Al Hadi but changed her name when she was drugged by her husband, Daniel Wani. And he said that, if she did not return to the devout family fold, she should be hanged.
Well heck. What’s a god fearing brother to do after all?
She said she always followed her mother’s faith, which was Christian. Which naturally made her case all the worse.
Here’s the link if interested. As you’ll note, I am some days late so you may have seen it already.
What a world we now inhabit.
Last month there was an accident on a freeway in which it was reported that 1500 chickens were killed.
Here’s a link to the idiocy where you will find video. I haven’t bothered to look at any videos so if you do, let us know if worth seeing.
I do seriously believe that the fruitcakes at PETA were not kidding. I could be wrong of course.
1,500 chickens killed in lorry crash ‘deserve memorial’: Animal rights campaigners call for commemoration after M62 accident branded ‘idiocy’ by drivers
· Several hundred live birds escaped on to the M62 motorway after the crash
· Accident took place at 4.15am near Eccles Interchange, Great Manchester
· Lorry was carrying 6,000 chickens when it shed its load on to motorway
· The M62 has been shut eastbound as workers try to round up the chickens
· Commuters took to Twitter to discuss and complain about the incident
By John Hall
And maybe another reason to avoid a visit to the doctor.
He’ll only send you to a vet.
I couldn’t make this up.
Doctor told mum: I can’t treat your girl ... take her to a vet! GP gave up trying to extract tick from 5-year-old’s head
· Paula Binns took five-year-old Lilyanna to the GP after noticing the tiny parasite on her head while she plaited her hair
· She has made a formal complaint claiming the doctor at the practice in Walkden told her to seek advice from a vet instead
· 26-year-old said the family contacted a vet who said they could not help
· A neighbour eventually removed the tick using tweezers
· Blood-sucking parasites can infect humans with debilitating Lyme disease
By James TozerWhen the family contacted a vet’s practice, they were told it did not treat humans but could supply a tick removal tool. Lilyanna’s discomfort was eventually relieved by a neighbour who sterilised tweezers and extracted the parasite.
Yesterday Miss Binns, from Walkden, Salford, said: ‘My daughter’s a human being, not an animal – it’s a shocking way to treat a little girl.’
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Permalink • Saturday - June 14, 2014
Finally, Some Sun
It’s been dark and wet here for most of a week. We received a good measure of some badly needed rain, and then it kept right on raining. So today it’s mild, the sun is out, the ground is soft, and I’m going to go play in the garden. I managed to dig out 3 20 gallon bins full of soil in between the showers, and now that has to be sifted; a couple more bins full after that, and I can lay in the lower half of the central garden bed. I’ve got the trench dug for the hefty edger stones, so getting a half dozen of them in place should only take ... forever. That comes first, then sifting and mixing good topsoil and fertilizer into the old dirt, then laying that in and compacting it a bit, and then, then I can finally plant. And then I can do it all over again and dig the outer half of the upper central area. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Further down, past the end of the patio, there’s an 8x8 spot that seems to get full sun all day long. I’ve got some annual bulbs that require brilliant light to go in there. As soon as I sift a hundred million stones out of the hardened subsoil there, and work some good black earth into that poor dirt.
It’s a big project, and between the weather, getting sick from allergies, a couple flare ups of tennis elbow, a sore back, my weekend job, and all the other demands on my time, it’s taking a long long time to complete. But complete it I shall, and then I’ll have a place to build a pretty refuge from the nonsense of the world. And that’s what it’s all about.
Oh, right, I’d better remember to swap in a new propane tank on the super grill. We’ve been cooking everything on it, so we’ve used up a whole “short” tank of gas already. ("short" because the propane tank exchange people put only 15lb in the standard 20lb tank, so they don’t last as long as they ought to.)
Right then. Coffee. Bacon sandwich. Wee. My clomp-along mud shoes. Hat. And away!!
Update, many hours later: Ok, good enough for one day. I got the central cross wall dug in, plinthed, and laid in nice and square and plumb. It comes to within a 1/4” of the edgers, which is just fine. I went to town with the adhesive glop, and clamped everything in place. In about a week it will be good and hard. And while I was at it, I dug out another 3 bins worth of dirt. So that’s all done for this part of the garden. It just needs to dry off a bit and then be sifted back into place. My back held up fine, but my elbow is starting to get tired. So time to quit. And time for a cuppa coffee. And a shower. And then off to work for a couple hours to clean my offices. Woo hoo.
I heard from Peiper. He is mostly Ok, but suffering from some rotten back pain. It sucks getting older. Yeah, tell me.
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Permalink • Saturday - June 07, 2014
Sunny Saturday
Saturday afternoon, sunny and mild. Looks like a great time for a nap.
My wife is out like a light on the sofa.
Our visiting neighborhood moggy cat, whom I call Scowler, decided that the new Birthday Grill makes the perfect cat-sized bit of shade, just right for a catnap.
He’s a strange little fellow. Comes right up to the sliding doors and stares in, sometimes by the hour. This earned him the title of our Peeping Tomcat. But he won’t come inside! And he doesn’t want food. And if I’m out working on the garden project, or dabbling about on the patio, he’ll come visit. But don’t come any closer, or he’ll hiss! Sometimes I think he’s less a cat than a pushmi-pullyu. A Great Wild Animal ... in need of a tummy rub.
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 04, 2014
certain ppl with a right to steal especially when things get tempting
What the heck, as long as I started with news of the ludicrous but certainly not laughable, may I present you with this month or so old article I tripped over but forgot to post.
I have not been altogether organized lately, but better late than never with this kind of thing. Interesting, haven’t heard anything from the more militant fems on this.
So, whatcha think folks?
Rehabilitate? Maybe. After all, he’s just a boy of 14.
Surely too young to understand right from wrong.
Ya think?
Yeah, neither do I.
What a fucked up system in place and it seems mostly in pig ignorant western countries.
This little shit should have something he values cut off. He is a total waste of space and air and resources. His victims, if the quote here is true and complete, are morons.
Oh, whoops. I understand the moron word isn’t in vogue anymore as it is “offensive”.
Well, morons offend me by simply being.
There isn’t any help for vermin like this.
Teenager who sexually assaulted 12 women aged between 17-48 walks free from court with referral order designed to help HIM· 14-year-old admitted 12 separate incidents in three-month period last year
· He sexually assaulted 12 different women aged between 17 and 48
· Police spokesman said although upset his victims want the boy to get help
· Magistrates in Manchester sentenced him to a 12-month referral order
· Special sentence for youths aged under 16 who admit their crimes
· Aims to rehabilitate the offender and address their criminal behaviour
By Lizzie ParryA teenager who sexually assaulted 12 women, including a 48-year-old, has walked free from court with a referral order aimed at rehabilitating him and addressing his behaviour.
The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted 12 separate incidents when he appeared at Manchester Youth Court.
The assaults took place between August 20 and October 9, last year around the University of Manchester.On August 28, an 18-year-old girl was sexually assaulted near to the university’s Science Park.
Less than a month later, on September 21, three women, aged 21, 22 and 27, were sexually assaulted by the boy.Then on October 5, he sexually assaulted five women, aged 17, 21, 32, 32, and 35.
The final assault took place on October 9, when the teenager attacked a 48-year-old.Detective Chief Inspector Colin Larkin said: ‘Thanks to the information provided by the victims and the witnesses who came forward, we were able to make a swift arrest.
‘Following our press appeal, a further six women contacted us to say that they had also been assaulted.‘Although the victims were upset by what happened, each one of them have expressed a genuine wish the boy receives help and does not offend again.’
The teenager was sentenced by magistrates to a 12-month referral order.According to Department of Justice guidelines, referral orders are suitable for first-time offenders under the age of 16, who plead guilty to their crimes.
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Ok, come on. Educate me here. If a woman is only “upset” does that imply she may have liked the attention? Maybe they were all bow wows?
Seems to me a lady who’d been set upon in this way would feel a bit more. Like, angry. Murderous? Unforgiving? All sorts of other words might apply. But upset sounds so mild. And the way he had been at it, he damn well knew exactly what he was about. But hey ... if they forgive him it occurs to me that I shouldn’t give a darn.
Next up, another amusing bit of law and disorder.
And just so ya know .... £800 is $1,338.00
Two young women who stole £800 of scooters and hair straighteners from John Lewis because security was ‘so lax’ walk free from court
· Pair told police they targeted John Lewis because it was so ‘tempting’
· Security guards recognised Hastings and Fleming after an earlier trip
· Hastings and Fleming fined £490 each and handed a 12-month conditional discharge
· Judge said it would be nice if things could be unlocked and not stolen
By Darren BoyleTwo young woman who admitted stealing almost £800 worth of goods from John Lewis blamed the store’s lax security for their crime.
Jodie Hastings, 25, and Natasha-Marie Fleming, 23, snatched scooters and hair straighteners worth nearly £800 from the store’s flagship store in Oxford Street, central London.The young mothers were snared when they returned to steal from the same shop again just a few days later. But the two thieves were recognised by security guards and arrested, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
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Permalink • Friday - May 30, 2014
either someone having silly fun, or another serious sign of the times. take yer pik
OK… could be someone’s idea of a joke, or else some one or more ppl trying to stir things up.
Somehow though, and only time might tell, I think it’s hard to believe that muzzies would so easily play into the hands of so many who would easily believe it.
I know they have crap for brains believing the things they preach, but somehow this would be a step way over. Or, maybe not. Some months ago after all, wasn’t there a group of them on the streets bullying folks about dress and drink and declaring parts of London a muslim district under sharia law? But many of those were also Brit born converts white guys, who even looked more stupid than the usual bearded freak.
Anyway .... it really looks like someone pasted over a sign in a petrol station at curb side, with a home printed notice.
‘Do not walk your dog here! Muslims do not like dogs’: Fury after poster discovered near popular London park warns dog-walkers to stay out of ‘Islamic areas’
· Sign sparked anger after being seen on railings of Bartlett Park, east London
· Notice advices pet owners not to walk dogs as it is an ‘Islamic area now’
· MP Jim Fitzpatrick has written letter of complaint to Tower Hamlets mayor
· It is not yet known who put the sign up and police are investigating
By JULIAN ROBINSONAn MP has complained after seeing a sign posted near a popular park warning dog-walkers to stay out of ‘Islamic areas’.
Conservative Member of Parliament Jim Fitzpatrick alerted police and the local mayor about the sign after it was flagged up by one of the residents in his east London constituency.
The sign, which was spotted on the railings of Bartlett Park, reads: ‘Do not walk your dog here! Muslims do not like dogs. This is an Islamic area now.’
Police say an investigation is now underway to find out who put it up.
a sign of the times, cont. reading
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Permalink • Thursday - May 29, 2014
I’ll Take The Steam Drill, Thanks Just The Same
John Henry was on the right hand side
The steam drill was on the left
Said before I will let that drill beat me down
I’ll hammer my old fool self to death, Lord Lord
I’ll hammer my old fool self to death
Whoever left the comment on one of my garden building posts that said I should get a break bar had the right idea. Damnation, we don’t have soil here. We have natural concrete, I swear. Limestone plus acid rain, right? With infinite amounts of aggregate in it too. I’ve got a couple of good shovels, but even if I wail the pointy one into the ground and then jump on the back of the blade, it does nothing. Makes a 1/4” scrape at best. And trust me, I weigh nearly double what your typical scrawny little illegal alien landscape worker guy weighs. I’ve had to result to using a garden trowel and the claw end of a hammer. When that went nowhere (Ok, it was just damn slow. As in No Progress Evah slow), I just gave up and started hammering the trowel into the ground, going down a couple inches and then levering out a handful of earth. Again, and again, and again, and again ... the first trowel broke after a few minutes. The second one, with a steel ringed socket, lasted the rest of the afternoon but at this point is bent up rather like a pretzel. On the positive side, I managed to get almost 4 feet of plinths in, which advances my stone border by 6 standing stones. I got them settled, level enough, and they’re glued up and clamped in for the next week until the masonry glue hardens.
Fuggit, tomorrow I’m just going to gently spread some topsoil in the finished area and plant some flowers before they become totally root bound. Give my old joints a rest while I try to decide whether to buy a breaker point or a long mason’s chisel. Phah, a nice railroad spike would do too. Pity there aren’t any along the train tracks these days.
And if I see the landscape guys, I’ll ask them if they have a jackhammer, and how much they’ll charge to dig the 70 foot long trench full depth. Phooey, that’s an hour’s work for an air hammer with a 4” spade bit.
John Henry he told his shaker
Shaker you better pray
For if I miss that old little piece of steel
Tomorrow’ll be your buryin’ day, Lord Lord
Tomorrow’ll be your buryin’ day
Update: Ha! I think Chris Muir reads BMEWS. Cool.
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 27, 2014
Shoveled Out For Today
Digging in the garden all day long. Very tired now. And dirty.
But I am making progress. I made my own little soil sifter and used it to screen the dirt a foot deep across the whole lower bed. I have no idea how many pounds of stones I took out of the soil, but I kept dumping them over the edge of the steep embankment here, and twice made a mini-avalanche. Good. Rock rich soil is no fun to garden in. So after I filled up 3 20 gallon plastic storage bins and 2 18 gallon plastic storage bins with sifted cleaned subsoil, I had to put it all back. But first I mixed it with some manure compost and some bagged topsoil, so at least now it’s halfway decent for growing things in.
The rain came around just about the time my arms wore out, so I’ll let Mother Nature water things in so they settle. Then the garden will get a top layer of 4” of organic topsoil mixed with that Miracle Grow super garden stuff in the big yellow bags. Then I can plant.
Tomorrow, if it is done raining, I’ll lay in a few more plinths and glue on some edgers. That’s turning into odd work, the kind you do either on your knees or lying down, digging a narrow groove in the hard ground with a trowel and a claw hammer. So it goes really slow, but the result looks really nice.
I figure I’m building a garden that should last a couple decades, and I’m fine with that.
And yes, I remembered to put the cover on the brand new grill. Don’t want it getting wet now, do we?
Oh gawd, my arms hurt. I’m too old for this Farmer Bob stuff, by half. Time for a long hot shower.
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Permalink • Thursday - May 22, 2014
Mr. Sneaky Builds a Garden
Still waiting to hear back from the
The main reason I wanted to build a low wall was to hold back a quarter ton or so of topsoil, which I’ll need to fill in the area that’s going to become a raised garden bed. But since I most likely won’t be allowed to build an 18” tall wall, the best I could hope for would be raising the lower end the length of one of the stones, which is 11.5”. And honestly, that’s probably enough to take out most of the slope and to give me a decent depth of soil.
But if I just set a few stones on end at ground level, they’ll topple over when I fill the area in. So I came up with a solution. I’m going to set those stones in just below ground level, but they’ll be glued together and glued to a flat plinth underneath. So I get 10.5” of raise, the plinth is invisible below the soil, and it carries 4"x33"x10.5" of soil, which is about 50lb. That adds even more mass to the 208lb unified block, and I’ll probably sneak a plinth under the next 3 uphill vertical edge stones too, and then glue them to the assemblage on at the corner. No way that will ever move, and the raised bed area will be almost 2 feet long at the deep end. After that the next 3 stones will just go on edge, but be a stair step up, then another step up for the next 3, etc., as I work my way uphill alongside the patio. It goes mostly flat then for about 9 feet, then the land goes steeply uphill. So my plan for that steep part calls for individual stones to take steps up. No plinths needed, just dig a hole and tamp a bit of gravel and sand level in the bottom of it.
I need to go buy more stones. It’s actually takes less stones to build a low wall than to set a line of them on edge, especially if I use 6 of them as plinths.
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America puts one away …. after a 15 year delay thanks to slobbering rights lawyers
That it took America to jail Hamza, damns our politicians, police and MI5
Hamza used London as a ‘safe haven’ in which to use ‘poisonous rhetoric’
Britain showed ‘failure to act’ in the late Nineties when he came to attention of authorities
Hundreds of young British Muslims since lured to their deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and LibyaBy Deborah Davies
So the Americans have finally done what the British intelligence services, police, courts and successive governments failed to do in 15 years — they’ve incarcerated Abu Hamza for good.
You can draw a direct line from Britain’s failure to act in the late Nineties, when he first came to the attention of the authorities, through to 52 deaths and more than 700 injuries in the London bombings in 2005.
In addition, hundreds of young British Muslims have been lured to their deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria by the warped, poisonous rhetoric of Hamza and others, who used London as a safe haven in which to preach, recruit and raise money.
It’s a shameful catalogue of inefficient policing, political blindness, legal weakness and limited intelligence — in every sense of that phrase.
Our security services appeared neither sharp enough to see what was going on nor willing to share what little they did glean.
Why on earth didn’t the police and intelligence agents simply open their ears and eyes to what was happening all over this country?
Britain’s shameful incompetence: Hook’s family CONTINUE to live off the State and have cost taxpayer £3m in upmarket housing and benefits… and we can’t expel his sidekick because of human rights laws
The hook-handed cleric is expected to die behind bars
Federal court in New York found him guilty of aiding the taking of hostages
Three Britons died in the Yemen attack 16 years ago
Hamza delivered sermons outside Finsbury Park mosque during the 1990s
Ex-DPP Lord Ken Macdonald said action should have been taken soonerBy James Slack
David Cameron and other politicians welcomed the fact that – 16 years after three Britons died in the Yemen attack – the hate-preacher had finally been brought to justice.
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Lock the barn door and be quick about it. The horses have just run off.
Not much in the way of breaks really. Just walked calmly away or didn’t return from their day off.
The Mail reported earlier today how prisoners with a history of escaping will no longer be placed in open prisons, after a violent convict dubbed the Scarborough Slasher went on the run from a minimum security jail.
Great system they have in place. Innit. Killers on day release? So now authorities say no more, things are to change. No more open prison for baddies who just can not keep a promise to come back to their prison.
Total (so far) is five.
Two more dangerous convicts escape from open jail - the fourth breakout in two weeks - as police warn public to shut windows
Anthony Peloe had been in jail for possessing firearms with intent to harm
He and robber John Arnold absconded from Thorn Cross in Warrington
Prison officials discovered the pair were missing at 10.30am yesterdayIt’s after Damien Burns and Dean Jackson fled jail in Doncaster on Monday
Earlier this week, a murderer who escaped from open prison was arrestedArnold Pickering, 44, who stabbed blind man to death, found in Oldham
It comes a fortnight after Michael ‘Skull Cracker’ Wheatley also fled prison
He allegedly robbed a building society before being caught four days laterJustice Secretary has ordered ‘urgent’ changes to tighten up the system
By Mark DuellArnold Pickering, 44, who stabbed a blind man to death, was held for being unlawfully at large at an address in Oldham.
The killer was recaptured by Greater Manchester Police after failing to return to jail on Saturday afternoon.
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