Horsemeat scandal - all our fault! and it looks like its time to "Garden"

"Iceland" store boss Malcolm Walker reckons, amongst other things, that the horsemeat scandal is just a "storm in a teacup".  He also puts the blame for the scandal fairly, according to him, at the feet of schools hospitals and prisons for driving down the cost of food supplied to them.  So in effect its "all our fault!"  He also go's on to say he wouldn't eat "value" food because it will have very little meat in it, as well as claiming that "Iceland did sell cheap food"  Mmmmm i wonder if hes a relative of the Ratners! 
The big supermarket bosses meanwhile are meeting Owen Paterson (The Environment Secretary) at "Westminster" to discus how they can re-gain the shoppers trust.  Have we ever trusted them I ask? I fear the result will be just an excuse for another price hike to ensure products have what they say on the pack nestling expensively inside it. 

The bloke who invented the wind up radio in the early nineties Trevor Bayliss, is broke according to a story in the Telegraph .  Worth a read if only to realise he lives on the romantically named Eel pie island in the Thames.  One bit caught my eye though the story writer Richard Grey reports Baliss's workshop to be "chaotic" maybe this lends some credence to the "Life Coach" story I looked at 2 days ago!   

This Blade Runner Oscar Pistorious murder story is getting a little ridiculous if you read the story in todays Telegraph.  A bloodied cricket bat is now coming into the story!  the girls was apparently shot "through the bathroom door" a number of times.  "His" family support him in this saying he did it thinking she was an intruder(!)  - - - Girlfriend missing from your bed - - - someone using the bathroom --- grab the machine gun and shoot the intruder in there - - - through the door!

I see that in the states Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win pole position in a Nascar cup race , averaging 196mph in a qualifying session.  She should come to Matlock the girls round here do that kind of speed around the car park! 

There was enough sunshine around to sit out in the garden again yesterday and I sat watching the fish lazily cruising around.  Last week one of them caused a little concern by being upside down on the bottom.  It swam off as I attempted to net it and has looked ok since.  I noticed as well that its about time to start pulling out the weeds that have popped up over the winter or they will run riot pretty soon. So once again it "time to garden"   

Sally had a present the other morning left on her bed.  Sainsbury had been out on one of his hunting forays and decided that Sally should be presented with his trophy.  She was not too impressed to find a dead mouse on top of the bed when she woke. - - - at least it was a dead one!

I have been applying myself lately to the task of "the book", an account of my nearly 30 years in the Army.  I am currently at the point where I was 19 years old having completed a 3 month tour in Aden which at the time, "We" were having a minor war with.  This tour was during a year long posting to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.  Having completed the 3 month tour i was offered 2 weeks at White Sands Leave centre (Malindi) just North of Mombasa in Kenya, fantastic

I'm on the left, mate Angus Goudie on the right

 

Angus & A N Other showing off the White Sand

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