Jim Webster's Blog, page 38

Out of the mouths of babes

  Obviously with a title like this there is perhaps the thought that this blog is going to wander off into territory of the professional eroticist. With Santa there, dressed like that, who knows what sort of present you’re going to find yourself unwrapping? But strangely enough, you might say that metaphorically I was interested …

Move along there citizen, nothing to see

    Move along please, move along. No rubbernecking please, no stopping to gawp. Move along move along. Ain’t you people got homes to go to?   OK so it’s a blog. Never seen a blog before? Admittedly finding one sprawled on the pavement isn’t usual, but what did you expect? One minute the fast …

Stereotypically me?

I was walking across town last night on my way to a friend’s house. Suddenly there’s a shout of ‘Hey you’ and a transit van pulls up next to me. It turns out the driver is a lady from away. She’s going to start work at 5:30am tomorrow for one of the big building contractors …

As wise as serpents and innocent as doves

‘Education, education, education is a slogan that will doubtless stir the memory if you’re British and of an appropriate age. But what is education for and what are we supposed to be training people to do? In fact some people ask whether we’re entitled to educate children at all. Personally I reckon that education starts …

‘Self-identification’ crisis.

  Once upon a time I could say, in all honesty, “You wouldn’t believe the loonies you find out there.” Now, thanks to Facebook, you have no problem in believing me because you’ve ‘met’ them as well. Because I was travelling for a couple of days I wasn’t anywhere near any internet access so had …

Gone with the wind

Yesterday was rescheduled. I got out of bed intending to do various things and pretty well none of them happened. First I was looking sheep and in checking one lot I discovered we had a problem with a fence. That bit of hedge isn’t particularly good. We’re still trying to cope with a policy decision …

The future?

Let’s get this straight; I’m from the generation who were promised a manned Mars expedition in 1985. At school in the 1960s we were promised that by the year 2000 we’d have flying cars and subsist on food pills and protein concentrates. So yes, I’m not a believer.   Then a friend sent me a …

Renewal?

It was Plato who said, “This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” So when you look at the empty Kentucky Fried Chicken bag hanging on a hedge in the middle of the countryside, it’s pretty obvious why it’s there. Our citizens are what they are. Whoever ate the meal …

Can I mourn other peoples’ idols?

  To misquote Kipling, “If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, do you really understand the situation?” I don’t know about anybody else but there are times when I end up feeling somewhat semi-detached from the rest of humanity. Take the sad death of Princess Diana. You know how …

Do they know it’s Christmas?

You have to admit that Sheep are not perhaps the brightest of God’s creatures. Now this isn’t blind prejudice, this is bitter experience talking. I willingly admit that by preference I’m a cattle man. Indeed in my world the term ‘cowboy’ is a professional designation, not a term of abuse hurled at a builder. But …