Posts by Jackie Clark
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Still waiting for that email, Sally. No pressure, mind.
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Meanwhile, in that country that, apparently has no respect for human life or rights, they rescued their 29 miners within a day or so.
You do know that flooded mines, and mines where miners are stuck because of rock falls etc are very different to bastard coal mines that can, and do, blow up without any warning do you not?
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Islander,
Oh yes, dear Islander, indeed. I'm sure, if they had been allowed to, they would have been down there like a shot, without thinking of the risk to their own lives. Not a job I could ever do.
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Sally, would you email me please? It's not about cake.......but it could be.
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Deelightful. And so well needed on a day like today.
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Sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad. All so unnecessary, all so tragic. All so sad.
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No, it shouldn’t, Russell. This whole thing is too, too sad, and I know that the public has a right to be informed. But my gut tells me that if I were any of the families, I would just want to be left alone. To hope, to grieve, whatever it is they need to do at the moment.
I would also add that I really don't know how useful it is for people to be adding to the families' frustrations by egging on the "why haven't they got down there yet" line of inquiry. Personally, I find myself wondering the same thing. The difference is, I just don't think that it's useful. -
I feel so sorry for this poor woman's family. And I feel so sorry for all of us that, for some reason or another, we just don't get it. We don't get that when you're in your car, it's not just you and the road. We don't understand that we have to look out for each other. All the time. Even when we're parked at the side of the road, or tootling along at 50kph. Just like we have to look out for each other, and we don't, when we're not in our cars. And we don't get that other people are affected by our actions. Everything we do has a flow on effect. I don't think it's just NZers. I understand that in the UK, they have a fairly high rate of cyclist deaths. The difference may be that they are being seen to be doing something about it. I just don't know what the solution is. I hope we find one soon, though. What with kids getting killed by people running over them on driveways, and cyclists dying because people are so unthinking, and drivers carking it all over the place, and women dying in domestic abuse incidents, to name a few ways that we are all killing ourselves, surely there won't be anyone left?
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Oh I love the dog whisperer - very interested to hear recently that he's getting a divorce. Maybe balance is harder to achieve with humans?
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Cracker: Dig This!, in reply to Damian Christie,
Oh, she is so pretty! My cat's 14 too, and similarly behaves like a kitten after being the bitch cat from hell for the first couple of years of her life. She's a people slut - she takes after her mother, I believe.