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The local paper reported that a local man died recently. He'd been a bright, cheerful lad, an Army cadet, chess player, won a prize with a robot he'd made - then at 14 he'd started smoking cannabis. By 18 he was showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.
The Moral of This Story, Dear Reader, is stay away from the Weed (pot, dope, skunk, cannabis, & tobacco). The lad may have had a pre-disposition to develop paranoid schizophrenia anyway but without the drug abuse it might not have developed. I know, you have/had friends who did dope when they were younger, maybe they still do, maybe you did yrself, maybe you still do. The fact remains, Skunk is really strong - specially compared with the cannabis available some years back, & a lot of dope smokers these days tend to almost chain smoke rather than chilling out with the occasional spliff. OK, laugh at my use of words. Just stay off the weed (which really should be recategorised as dangerous) & away from Mental Health Services - cos they sure ain't up to much. I know, I'm a "Service User" - but that's another blog!
So Pompey acquitted itself fairly decently the past couple of matches. 1-1 against Bolton last night. Boy was I glad I got home when I did, around 8pm. Much earlier or later & I'd have met the fans! Local supporters are, usually, ok though. Then Sunday we lost 2-1 (?) to Arsenal. Which wasn't so bad really. Particularly considering we'd lost 5-0 in the match the previous Saturday!!!!! So we're still in the bottom three of the Premier division. We're out of the Cup for this year. Let's hope the next few matches are a bit more successful so we at least aren't out of the top Div. Then, maybe, next year we can concentrate on winning the FA. We did once, and kept it for seven years! {Mainly by dint of winning it at the end of the 1938-39 Season, then there was a War on for the next six years. Mind you, how many other clubs have kept the FA cup for seven years?}
Thinking abt yesterday's blog I realise I may have come over a tad ungrateful. Sorry, I can only plead tiredness at the time of writing. I really enjoyed my day - the Together meet, meeting E & J, Tea in the Hilton (yeah, I know, the Ritz, or the Savoy is THE place for tea really), the 'walk in the park' etc. Today I return to bed soon, once I've done me hour with the lightbox, to catch up with some much needed sleep. Then it's get some bread, lots of sugar & make this @@*!% marmalade cos the daffodils are all dead & I now have me jam jars back. Yes, I shall be washing them thoroughly first!
*Zips sleeping bag a little higher, there's a bit of a draught in here this morning.* Hmmm, last out another half hour, maybe some more echinacea is called for. Don't want another cold really. Still have the frogs in my throat from the one I got early Dec. I want tadpoles to grow into slug- & snail-eating frogs in the yard, not in my throat. Hey, it'll be tadpole time soon. Better install some form of pondlet so I have somewhere to put the spawn I hope to cadge from a friend. Think I have an old washing-up bowl, & lots of bubble wrap. Yay, bubble wrap! Particularly as D isn't home to pop it all these days! Came across an offer in one of me plant catalogues the other day - a 10" tub and a mini-waterlily, or two of them. Might just get that. Particularly as H heard yesterday that he isn't for the chop in this round of jobcuts. w00t! Mind you, they did hint that there might be further rationalisations - so everyone'll be leaving bang on time for the rest of this week at least! Now if they were to rationalise out the dumbhead 'Managers' who devise this stupid kind of 'policy' . . .
& on the Religious Offence theme - apparently a Danish paper published some cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed. So many Muslims have been boycotting Danish goods that the economy has noticed. See folks. Consumer Power. You don't need to go bomb the Danish - just hit them in their trading. The purse is mightier than the suicide bomber! Come to think of it, the editor of France Soir, who also published the cartoons, has been sacked.
So the next time some paper carries something offensive to Christians, well, we know what to do. Pray for the editor, the cartoonist/article writer of course. Far more effective to get God onto them, as well as being what God says to do in the first place! You be mean to me & I'll pray for you. Sound threatening? Believe me, it can be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!
I actually ran this blog through the spellcheck. Four of the 'errors' flagged were real spelling errors - now corrected. Honestly, I have this set to English (UK). I feel another REAL English blog coming on!
Hour up, I'm for me bed. But first . . . *Screams "off"*
Q: What's that knocking noise in the kitchen?
A: Isn't it the clock? I only had a C cell battery so used the one we used to have in the front room.
Q2: But it's coming from the fridge!
A: Oh, that's probably the camel. You can let it out now!