Modern TV

[j.sabourn]

I don't know about the UK but us out here are pelted with cooking programmes, I don't know how many watch them but I certainly don't, but according to their own ratings they are supposed to be doing well. They have for sometime now had a couple of boy meets girl type of the same called the Bachelor and Bachelorette which I also don't watch but they again say they are top of the Charts. The latest one is another programme called married on First sight and is described as a Social Experiment. To me it will always be known as a Social Disease. The morality of today and what people think is normal amazes me, and I don't think of myself as by any manner of form a Prude. I have hardly ever seen any programme run to time, and programmes which are advertised are changed at someones whim, would like to know who it was. If ever Australian TV tried to charge for a Licence there would be many TVs just dumped, to say that nearly every Channel is abysmal would be putting it mildly. JS

[cappy]

##it seems john the same here cooking programmes galore ....but what a cheap way for the bbc and others to fill many hours in a week .....a few pots and pans and a cooking range...and some gobby no all making twats out of people .....but better than thomas the tank engine bob the builder the wombles and political party broadcasts promising valhalla to all there voters......went to an auction yesterday to fill in the time it was quite interesting ...a massive property in layburn north yorks......very profesionally done .....made a couple of bids for items i liked the look of but was outbid by others......i guesss some were buying to resell in various bussineses ......but a good few interesting hours and a decent breakfast on site.......roll on the warmer days ......can get in the garden......cappy

[Keith Tindell]

Take heart Cappy, just this minute noticed the blu tits in and out of the bird nesting box, Spring just around the corner, kt

[cappy]

###two mornings last week the birdbath was frozen over ...i took out a bucket of warm water and poured it on the ice ...within a few minutes birds were bathing in the water and the resident robin in the garden was attacking all and sundry .....he is a proper battler ...i also saw the blue tits a jenny wren black birds and a wagtail all in seemingly fine fettle ...as the winter has been more like late autumn than winter apart from a couple of frosty days.....i have ben thinking of buying a little river run around for fishing in warmer days ......but at the small marina in borobridge they can be hired quite cheaply so have decided to go for that ....young charlie likes the idea ...he is a big fisherman .....it is really a calming thing to.do on the quiet of a good english freshwater river ......plenty big pike about for a good fight......roll on summer cappy

[j.sabourn]

#2... Would pay your air fare out here Cappy if you could pull all the weeds out of front grass, they grow overnight. Once I get on my knees cant get up again. Have to start at about 0600 hrs and is too hot by 0900 hrs, Get 2 old fellahs from the SOS ( Save Our Seniors) every month, but have to hide behind the curtains when they are here as look older than me, and might ask why a youngster like me cant pull his own weeds out. After 2030 at night every program apart from ABC has adverts on every 10 minutes I counted one night and they put 14 on especially when there is an imported movie on and they know many will be watching. This time of year they just put nigh on continuous sport on, so if not a sporting addict too bad. Hope yourself and Pat in Good Health. All the best JS

[cappy]

ahh the galley boys dream to see the captain on his knees .....must say john last spring when i got the mower out i was blowing for tugs ...but as the days went by it got easier .....stuck a load of evergreens inlast year and am pleased with the result there is colour in the garden if only in shades of yellow and green .......sure glad the garden is only small .....got in trouble last year him next door kept shouting his plums were bigger than my plums ..so when his missus was in the garden i stood at the bedroom window and showed her my plums......he hasnt spoken since but she pops i regularly for a chat lol cappy

[j.sabourn]

Are you sure he wasn't talking about his gooseberries. Was out last night at the golf club for a meal. In the party was a lady from South Shields 40 odd years ago, her husband was knocked down by a car and killed a few years after coming out here and as far as I know has been a widow ever since. Anyhow she was talking about her older brother a long time deceased who was about 18 years older than her according to her, found out from my friend she is now 74. Anyhow her brother was jimmy someone and I cant remember his surname but will find out again, as will ask her. He was a Chief Engineer, He was at one time working on the Southern Harvester among other ships of course, she reckoned he died at an early age due to the drink. I will find out his name and see if you knew him. Will also pass on the size of your gooseberries if that's alright with you. Pat doesn't read your mail does she? JS

[cappy]

jeez john if pat read my posts on this site i would be taking up your offer of weeding in your gardenthe southern harvester always reminds me of a guy i went to school with in shields ......his ist trip his ship was in colision in the baltic in thick fog he was in a lifeboat a couple of days in the fog before rescue.....his second ship was the harvester or venturer i think it was the former .....seventeen months down south both aborad and ashore in georgia.....met him years later in auckland he introduced me to a beauty.....good times in auckland about 3 weeks it was the business .......also the old seaman of the harvester in our local chippy iwas sent for fish and chips and given half a crown .....in he came drunk as a fiddlers bitch .....he shouted i am a shields whaler man i want a humpy backed whale and three ton of chips.....and give every body in the shop there fish and chips on me ....i scuttled back home and kept the half crown saying nothing ...but somehow amongst all the sins i commited in life i always kept feeling guilty ...told my old girl many years later.....before she passed and got it of my chest.....what was the womans name before she married ......no a lot of girls from shields in them days.......cappy

[j.sabourn]

As said will find out she may be putting out she is younger than she is and you may have gone to school with her, she went through half a bottle of wine with her fish and chips so must run in the family. Jimmy Watts sticks in my mind for some reason but not sure if she said was her brothers name or not, which would have been hers before married. Said her bother was stationed at South Georgia for 15 month spells, that would be enough to turn anyone to drink. I thought the size of your gooseberries might remind her if she knew you or not. He I believe died in the 70"s. Don't think she knew too much about the good God fearing man he really was, just like yourself, but may have remembered you which we still have to discuss maybe over a case of wine sometime. Seeing this mate who brought her to the party on Tuesday and see if he knows, he"s from the midlands somewhere so don"t suppose he knows much of anything. She also named a few streets in Shields one where she lived, so could have been your neighbour. Cheers Q and E JS

[j.sabourn]

Just belatedly found this among my mail from someone...
An oldie..
I'm passing this on because it worked for me today.
A Dr. on tv said to have inner peace we should always finish things we start and we could all use more calm in our lives.
I looked through my house to find things I"d started and hadn"t finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a budle of wum, tha mainder of valiuminum prsciptions, ana box a chocletz
Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now.
Sned this to all who need inner piss. An telum u luvum. And hve a marry Crispmouse..,, Xx