Every little helps

I don't understand why it takes all this time to clear up the rubble in Haiti. Every town in Germany in 1945 was just as flat and the Germans sorted. In Berlin most of the chaps were dead, or minus various limbs and so the women cleared the rubbish up, sorted the re-usable bricks out and built a mountain with the stuff they couldnt re-use. It still stands to this day.  I had a friend who in 1945 lost his entire family in the bombing and built his own house (took him 5 years) by picking up bricks from the rubble, cleaning the mortar off them and when he had enough he built a small house. Am I being cynical thinking the people of Haiti are waiting for an NGO/UN to pop in and re-build the place.

Something else I dont get is the housing stock in this country. When I was a kid I lived in a back to back cul-de-sac with a factory at one end belching smoke. We had an outside loo and I used to have a bath in the sink. When we built a small bathroom on the back it was total luxury to be able to lie down in the bath. I remember when they opened the nearby housing estate and the houses had hot water, bathrooms and fitted kitchens. My Aunt burst into tears the first time she turned the tap on! We were so proud of those houses and kept them spotless with roses around the path. Now those houses are total slums. What happened?

Wife has a tendency to make words up. Todays Gem: "Lithuanian Batteries"

First entry.....

Well, morning people of the Interwebthingnetpod.com.
Man once said to me "two sides of A4 and one graph, if you must, is all one should inflict on your betters. AND if you have to produce more be prepared to move to warmer climes!"
Good advice and Ill try to keep it brief.

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 56 years rotund, own teeth, sane with certificate to prove it and living in centre of United Kingdom AKA Great Britain.
One wife two dependents one estranged. One dog (Bob the dog) one cat (Percy-Cat)
Abode -  Small cottage with large mortgage.
Object of Blog to placate wife who seems to think this will be good for me.
Political view. Very non PC and slightly to the right of centre.
I have no feminine side and have a shed to prove it.
Likes - Old Things and restoring them. I think its a crime the amount of things we throw away.
Hates - New things Particularly North America excluding Canada. 
Young Blonde Female sports presenters who know sweet Fanny Adam about sport.
Banks period
Politicians period
Builders bloody period
Estate Agents Oh and their stupid cars, particularly BMWs and Audi TT types. What or what is the reason for  an Audi TT someone?
Orange sun tans and the burks that get them.
People who wear glasses and don't need to.
All reality TV shows
All Soaps
Radio One
All Cooking Programmes
Anything with Devina McCall in it.
People who talk as if asking a question? That includes all Austrailians and say "Oh my God" a lot.

Likes:
My wife
Youngest sibling and my dog
My house
Radio 4
BBC 4
Harry Enfield and Friends
The smell of a good cigar and brandy.
Riley leather intereors
Steam Trains
The sound of a Spitfire
The smell of coffee, fresh bread and bacon
Toad in the hole
Lamb and mint sauce
Bitter beer and good port and stilton
The smell of wet grass and a game of cricket on a village green.
Gunsmoke.
Channel number 5

Watching my dog quarter a field searching for the quarry.
Poached eggs on toast
German Sausage and fried potatoes
Fully fashioned Nylon Stockings

Total Bliss. My wife in Channel Number five and stockings flirting over the brandy and cigars!




Work:
RAF
Police
RAF
FCO
City
Tutor
Prison Service
Stroke
Getting better.

Interests:
Old Cars
Old Wireless Sets
Cricket
Fully Fashioned Nylon Stockings and Legs in them particularly rear aspect.
Music
Good Book

I reckon that will do. More tomorrow
Rgds Fatboyflin