Aurora by the Foo Fighters.
Nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhTQfCVANE

According to some ( male ) cleric in Iran , women who dress immodestly are the cause of earthquakes.
FFS.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8631775.stm

Well, I am British, neither English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish.

I’ve never ever felt myself to be British, I’m English.I’d still be an Englishwoman even if I were lucky enough to be able to emigrate to New Zealand and end my days under the Southern Cross.I keep telling Daughter she has to marry a Kiwi.She’s nearly there,her current boyfriend’s half Welsh and half Australian.

I ask this because of an incident at the British High Commission in New Delhi recently when a English gentleman in his 60s maybe, came up to me for some help finding the right cue at the high commission. I guided him to the right counter and later he came and sat next to me and asked what i was going to the UK for, i replied ‘work’ and he suddenly shot “we don’t have any work for you folks anymore…. you all need to understand this, coming in plane loads when there is nothing for you there”. He then got up and left.

I’m sorry that man was rude to you,Kabir.Whatever anyone’s views are on immigration to the U.K.,they might at least be polite about them.
This is a subject which is extremely difficult to address without the idea of racism coming into play. All I can say from personal experience of my own town is that the last few years have seen a huge increase in immigrants,particularly from eastern Europe and Africa.I’m afraid that this is causing a growing resentment in a lot of ordinary people,with the idea mostly being expressed that they are starting to feel like strangers in their own country.
With the constituency I live in having the smallest majority in the country last time ( the Labour candidate got in by a mere 37 votes ),it’ll be an interesting election,and I shouldn’t be surprised to see the BNP candidate doing very well.

And that poor little baby was killed by her uncle’s dog yesterday while Mr.Bee and I were shopping in a suoermarket in the same neighbourhood.
She was taken to our ” local ” hospital a 20 minute drive away up the A23.I don’t suppose it would have made any difference though if they’d taken her to our town centre hospital.
So sad.

John Paul Young’s Love is in the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo

Pottering along the back roads near Gatwick this evening,enjoying the sound of birdsong and sheep bleating in the fields under a clear,silent blue sky with no vapour trails. Mr. Bee remarked what a disaster it was for people whose livelihood depends on air travel.
I’d been enjoying it until then.

Why shouldn’t the Scottish government try to get the very best deal for its citizens? They have accomplished a great deal of good for ordinary Scots – free care for the elderly, free prescriptions soon, no tolls on the Forth bridge, free tuition fees, to name a few. I’m extremely proud of my government (including Megrahi’s release) – how many of you can say that?

I’ll bet you’re proud of your government handing out such goodies free of charge.

Since I have a personal interest in a particular three of these items,perhaps you could point me towards seeing the benefits of a democratic system that allows this :

My daughter has a chronic painful , but not life-threatening, condition. she pays the full prescription charge for her medicines,and she constantly needs various painkillers, Cost for each prescription is I believe £7 odd,but soon falling from £4 to £3 in Scotland ( and even better value for those lucky people in Wales and Northern Ireland, who have arranged to pay precisely nothing at all ).
Same daughter will leave university this summer weighed down with debt for her tuition fees,which she’ll have to repay. Tuition fees for Scottish students ? Big fat zero.
My severely disabled 87 year old mother,and soon my frail elderly father too,pay an arm and a leg in care fees. Had they been living in Scotland,they would have been free from this constant drain on their small savings and incomes.

I’d be mighty proud of the British government if they could very kindly arrange for English citizens to enjoy the same conditions as the Scots,but I won’t be holding my breath.It makes a mockery of the phrase ” United Kingdom “.