Walking the dog

I confess I don't take my new dog walking rain or hail but I do do shine very well. This is one dog who really likes to walk. The last 2 were not at all keen but would play. The one before that was a beach dog and my first dog used to take herself for a walk . Such an escape artist! This new dog comes from the RSPCA like my last 2 and it is important for her to go walking. She needs to reacquaint herself with the nice life and the sights and sounds of the suburbs. I am grateful the RSPCA volunteers do such a good job of training the dogs to leash and walk. We have had a few issues to deal with so the daily walks, now it is sunny, are important for steadying her. She loves walking. As you can see , she waited patiently as I took the photos so we are coming along nicely. The good thing about here is so many people are now out with their dogs on a leash. Everyday you see quite a few dogs and their owners going for a nice walk to the shop or the park or like me, just a walk. It has been one of the really good changes in our neighbourhood. it means the dogs are happy and you can see that  and the owners are getting some fresh air and exercise. Our unspoken  practice, should we see another owner and dog, has been for one of us to go on the other side of the road or down a side street out of the way so there is no chance of the dogs having a tangle. If people know their dogs know another dog then they often stop and chat. Walking the dog has become a really positive activity and has made for a happier neighbourhood.

Monstrous Mother Drink

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It advertises itself as a"a mother of a taurine, caffeine and guarana hit." The only bull in this is what is on the can and in it. A can of  MOTHER (complete with Gothic lettering) delivers 160mg of caffeine and is best drunk "freeze your nuts off cold." It gets better. "So now, when a mate turns up with a wussy-sized can, you can raise your MOTHER up and say 'did yours come with a man-bag?'" It does print a logical and routine worded warning and it ought to have stopped there, but no. "Warning! High caffeine content...ok, we know that's why you are drinking it but our lame legal guys made us warn you not to feed this to kids,up the duff women or the weak who just can't tolerate it."

Up the duff women??? Who talks like that? What age group and background? Come on, we have been doing all this stuff about image and the image of women...but what does it say about men that they need to be fed this bull to buy a caffeine saturated drink?  Man bags...up the duff women...freeze you nuts off. It's laughable. Soft drink for soft heads.

Bluegrass and brain surgery.

Image via WikipediaI have watched tele. I have seen surgeons asking people to do things as they rummage through their brains trying to fix things. This is extraordinary  though. The 70 year old played bluegrass through his operation! it sounds like they fixed the tremor in his right hand...and don't we just live in an amazing world? I wish Eddie Adcock such a happy life now. He was amazingly brave.

Teenager tries to rape older woman twice

You have to wonder at this. Truly. If the facts are as they reported it is unbelievable the boy could go back to the woman’s house and try to rape her again. Was he known to her? Not that that would make it better. He just seems fixated on doing her harm. He really was out to get her and he really was incapable of  stopping himself from being so violent. Is there something wrong with him? He is  16 and she is 51 and she is not able to live safely in her home. It seems random, it seems thoughtless it seems very anti social and it seems to be the sort of thing we have to tolerate. We now have to factor that into our living. It is becoming more and more erratic and people are not safe because we see to have more people behaving in a violent way towards others. No respect. No consideration. Putting him in gaol for 2 years will make him harder. He isn’t safe though. No way. I don’t actually want to increase the number of hardened people we have but we seem to have so many aggressive people now. Comes back to our building blocks of society and what we tolerate and how we bring people up.

Rise in deaths of children at risk

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The article is sobering and given we are supposed to be a good place to live it looks rather grim. The number of deaths in children known to the care agencies has grown the the two main factors are domestic violence and parental substance abuse. Considering our police commissioner was saying we cannot afford to be apathetic about he amount of drugs we are discovering coming into our country then what he said is true. He was saying we can't just keep quoting statistics and then not actually be getting to the root causes of why we need all this stuff. Put that with these child mortality figures and the picture is clearer. Drugs are doing us harm. The police and customs have been doing a great job chasing it all down. But then there is the stuff they don't get and the fact we are bringing it in in vast ...vast...quantities. What is the matter with us. money won't fix that. We need to change our culture and our society. We need to drug proof ourselves and we need to work out why this destructive stuff is so popular. We have made inroads but not enough. We need to be constantly on our toes and even more active. We need to look at how families are in distress and why.We are paying a high price because peole have to work every day with these conditons and these facts. It must be very upsetting to have a job where you are just watching children die.