Month: April 2008

Apologies in advance for any ranting I put in here 🙂 It’s directed at old men and overenthusiastic press people.

We had the Diana coroner verdict announced yesterday and the conclusion they reached was “unlawfully killed due to ‘gross negligence’ of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi.” More from the BBC here … It’s confirmed a few things that we’ve known for over 10 years :

The driver of the car was driving under the influence of alcohol
The passengers were content to be driven by him
The only person to survive was the only one wearing a seatbelt
Paparazzi are … … … … … … swine.
(had to delete a few words from the paparazzi bit or I’d have broken my record for swearing in a post – insert nasty words and curses as you see fit)

I’m hoping that the verdict will put to bed the various conspiracy theories that surround Diana. The memories that we used to have of Diana surrounded the good things she got up to while she was alive. Those are steadily getting replaced by the stories that have cropped up since that crash. Even though I wasn’t a Diana fan when she was around, any hostility I felt has well and truly been replaced by sympathy driven by how the conspiracy people are masking the good things.

There’s a little more than the coroner’s inquest at work with Diana though. There’s also the two men who have taken grievous advantage of the confidence shown in them by our former Princess. To his credit, one of those two men has stayed quiet lately. The other one is helping to fuel the conspiracy theories, with the inquest judge telling the jury that it was “blindingly obvious” that he had lied to them.

It’s not often I feel the need for a rant but the conspiracy theorists have drawn one out of me this time … It’s been over ten years since Diana died and the nation showed how much she was loved when it happened. The latest investigation to report confirmed what we already knew from the previous inquests.

Time to let the poor girl rest.

Heh heh heh – I think Snow Cat is thoroughly disgusted with me now … my downstairs window doesn’t get opened. Chronos has a tendency to climb in and then jump on you when you’re not looking 😉

I’ve also never fed Chronos, however CK spoils him to make up for that 🙂

Snow didn’t last long, think we’re being shielded by Cornwall from the SW, the rest of England to the North and East and finally Ireland to the NW.

Snow cat doesn’t look to happy! Great shot of the snow. We had some weird stuff (snow, rain, & freezing temp) this morning and they delayed school for two hours.

BTW, Michele sent me to say Hi.

Poor Chronos! If memory serves it was the briefest of flurries though! I think the weather was all snowed out from it’s exertions in the South East where they had real snow!

Hiya TBB 🙂

You’ve been unusually quiet lately, hope you’re feeling ok 🙂

Just popped in to say “hi.”

I wonder if Snow Cat thought of sitting under the chair 🙂

the snow cat photo is wonderful when you enlarge it! love the look on the cat’s face, it says it all!

I still remember doing that Thursday Thirteen about a month or so ago with 13 links to Youtube on it.

That was hard work doing that ! But most of the hard work was actually in finding the videos.

Links can add something but there should be a sentence or a few words as a “more info there but hopefully I’ve covered it already” 🙂

But not too much of it any more. Thought I’d better capture the evidence before it all disappeared again. The car in the foreground is my faithful little puddycat, the snow doesn’t show up very well on the silver but it’s more visible on the windscreen. It’s currently 10.20am here and the location of the houses means my car’s in the shade. That’s why it’s probably the only car around with snow still on it 🙂

Makes it a little more interesting in most of the winter for de-icing but that’s where a front screen heater comes in very handy. It also means that in summer, I can sit in my car in the morning without having a burnt behind 🙂 That was the only disadvantage of the leather seats in my last car, they scorched your bum when they got hot. I’ve been back to cloth in this car though.

(addon – it’s now 10.45am and that snow is all gone !)

Addon 2 – it’s now 5pm and I got prompted to look out the window by an email from CK saying that the snow hadn’t lasted long. This is the scene outside :

Poor Chronos, in his chair again wearing an absolutely disgusted expression on his face due to noticing me open my upstairs window again to take the piccy above that I’m calling “Snow Cat”. Those little white streaks on the picture is snow, although it might need a clicky to make the picture large enough to see them.