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Very tired dog of mine. My fault entirely. Moved his food bowl to another room. Sadly passed away but memories linger on in his son Bruce, & his son Max. Both on my website: www.dougdevos.co.uk

Saturday 26 February 2011

Once more, the world turns.

Once more, bankers, politicians, top executives, dictators; all have creamed the top off the wealth created by the labour of many, & in an evermore overcrowded world. Which facts, of course, leave the poor sods at the base of the pyramid of shite, even less to starve on. Not that robbing the fat-cats & redistributing their wealth amongst the poor would make more than a few days difference of life to the latter; but for sure, it would make dying easier, Knowing that those bastards were either coming on the same train, or following on the next one! (Which is probably a major motivation to the Libyan protesters marching & dying as I write).

There's nothing new in any of this, of course: greed is a perennial weed (& there's the start of a rap, if ever there was one!). But every so often, it raises its shitface & becomes obvious. & so: 2008 to 2011 & beyond!

& there isn't a damned thing to do about it! Change the world? It's been tried, by religion, by isms, by hippies, etc., etc., etc.. & every time, the purity at the start soon gets sullied by that peculiarity of the human condition: greed; both personal & social. Us humans: a mixture of the herd & the hunter; we herd together, & hunt each other!

& the humanists among us hope fondly that we will evolve into a more moral species? Maybe; but evolution is a bloody long haul, chaps! Desperate times, indeed!

Even so, we have evolved sufficiently onward & upward(?) to invent good red wine! So, maybe, there's hope on the far horizon! Red wine in tablet form, at least!

As an Aussie conman said to me, by email, recently: Gooday!

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Bum wiping etc..

In my 68th year of life, & in shamefully rude health (although a light,4 a day, smoker, but a moderately heavy, 1 bottle a day, red wine drinker), I nevertheless muse occasionally on how I'll finally cock my clogs. In common with all us old fuckers, I hope to go quickly when satan knocks, & remain healthy until . So it was with some faint stirring of panic(?) that I listened to R4 Today this morning, & the horrific tale of someone's mum, & the awful lack of care she received at her demise.

Now the only personal experiences I have had so far of hospitals & nurses are 1) a morning in hosp. when I had my wedding tackle disabled (insofar as its procreative abilities lay), & 2) an instructive dalliance with a nurse in Newmarket in my late 20's. But those 2 clashes may not be the last! & so I offer the following as "ideas for perusal" for those wiser & mightier than I; (assuming any buggar reads this at all, at all).

1. Nurses in geriatric wards.

Should not be under, say 35/40 years old. After all, I would not consider it reasonable to ask a young woman to perform personal hygiene services on me, now; let alone at 92!

2. Drinking & eating.

Surely to god we have the technology to semi-automate these functions to some extent without a human having to be present. To which latter, if we can effectively surveille hoodies in shopping malls surely we can a poor old soul in a bed! So is increased technology part of the answer to staffing & its efficient use?

3.But lastly: Cocking one's clogs.

Since we can't all afford a short holiday in Switzerland, & since also the NHS is as poor as the proverbial, can the govt. get its ass into gear regarding euthanasia? After all Dave, you're running round in ever-decreasing wotsits now trying to find services to cut. Have you thought of life itself?

Onward & upward Dave, to your big society in the sky! & I hope I get there before you! In order to prepare the way for you, of course!

Monday 14 February 2011

On Stopping the World & Getting Off.

Hello & welcome to this new blog of mine! I am not going to mention property in Bulgaria, goats in Ireland, or mad bastards demolishing barns. NO! Instead, I'm going to blog about whatever I feel like blogging about; as the mood takes me, or the bullshit leads me.
So watch this space ,folks, for further attractions. (& now for setting up some links & other clever stuff. Fuck knows how long this will take, but life is but a learning curve.)
 So see u soon jimmy!