Up in the tropics....

Corking day up here in the frozen north, a mere 17c.

Sunsets to die for captured by colleagues.

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It gives you wings

Base jumping at it's best. Truly breathtaking.

On the other hand.......

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Bliadhna Mhath Ùr

As regular readers will have grasped, this year has been one of many trials and tribulations.

Seeking a suitable passage to read to my recently bereaved elderly mother-in-law in respect of the coming new year, this was suggested, by a simple Google search on 'Bible new year', from 1. Peter starting at verse 3. God clearly thinks out of the box!

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,

5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.

7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,

11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.

12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

Be Holy

13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.

18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors,

19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.

Those that know what we have been through in 2011,will only marvel at these words.

Wishing you all a Happier New Year.

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The Lady

Passing on a message close to my heart......

Dear friend

Today sees the release of The Lady in UK cinemas. This is a major new film about Aung San Suu Kyi directed by Luc Besson and starring Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis.

The Lady is based on the life story of inspirational Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Starting with the assassination of her father Aung San, Burma's independence hero, the film follows Aung San Suu Kyi's incredible journey to lead Burma's struggle for democracy, her imprisonment by the regime, and the love and support of her husband Michael Aris, the Oxford academic. The dictatorship refused to allow him to visit Aung San Suu Kyi one last time before his tragic death from cancer.

You can watch a trailer here.

In an interview with Burma Campaign UK, Michelle Yeoh said that she hopes people are inspired by the film to find out more about Burma:

"The most important thing for us is to create an awareness. The cause is so vital, we want people to understand what is happening there and not to take for granted what you have. We have democracy but reach out your hand to people who are still fighting for theirs."

Burma Campaign UK worked behind the scenes with producers back in 2007 to get the film started. This is just one of the many ways in which Burma Campaign UK works behind the scenes to raise awareness about Burma and make sure the world does not forget Burma's struggle for freedom.

Please support our work for freedom in Burma and make a donation here.

Thank you.

Anna

Burma Campaign UK

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Pandamonium

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ayePhone shockeroonee

Fit like loons and quines?

It's a sair fecht, but yon new fangled ayePhones cannae deal wi' the doric twang.

Big up tae the Polisman, fars obviously been affa weel brocht up - and clearly nae fae Mastrick.

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Weather Warning

Hurricane Irene has been downgraded to a Scottish Summer.


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I predict a riot

Cameron says Police were too slow to react - what's Italian for pot & kettle?

Give him some PPE and shove him on the front line.

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Mayhem

Well that was pure genius Mr Prime Eunuch.

All police leave cancelled. Spiffing good show. Just the support we wanted from the combined neurone that clearly is shared around the table at COBRA.

I have my suspicions it was a holding statement until they contacted Baldrick for a cunning plan.

In the meantime the hooded massive will be quaking in their one tens as they await the 'force' of the debate in the HoC on Thursday.

I'm sure I previously mentioned Nero.

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Quick update

Boris Johnson / Theresa Mayhem / David Cameron v Nero - Discuss.

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........ Apologists.

Is it just me, as far as I am from Norf Lundun, or do others wonder why do we have to suffer the bleetings of those individuals who are trotted out by our wonderful media to explain that the underlying impoverishment and disenfranchisement of the yoof is the rationale for blatant criminality.

If I was poor, disadvantaged, abandoned and starving you might under the most desperate of circumstances see me and my massive making the local Lidl an open air emporium for the famished population, but what do we actually see ........?

........ Fashionistas busting the windows of JD Sports to engorge themselves on vital victuals such as one tens and trackies and the truly desperate at Currys helping themselves to life saving HDTVs.

Ten out of ten to Sky News for their beautifully succinct comment on their Twitter site in relation to a news alert on their ticker. If only the rest of their coverage was as balanced.

In summation, however, this is clearly all the Police's fault. I must have missed the bit at Polis College about how I was to solve all the country's social ills. I thought that was the Politicians job - silly me. Mind you one has to let them have their foreign holidays and the rest of us can just muck in and cover for them since we can no longer afford such luxuries after Ms May's patently counter-productive decimation of our pay, pensions and conditions. I do feel so sorry she had to cut short her vacation.

I have, based on the collective assumption of guilt, penned a letter to my own Chief Constable, requesting he pay immediate attention to the non-appearance of summer hereabouts. If he is on the ball, he will roll out an obscure ecomentalist to explain it all to us.

Stay safe my southern cousins.

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Stand Free

A heartfelt request from a Paramedic colleague ...

Dear All,

After 6 months of endless fundraising and saving I am now nearing the target of raising £55,000 to send my nephew to the St Louis Children's Hospital in the USA for life changing surgery. Riley has Cerebral Palsy and at present is unable to walk and confined to a wheel chair. We are now so close to our target and surgery is booked for August.

This op is not available to Riley in the UK.

Can I ask that you all spread the word of his website and his Facebook page of same name to help us achieve our final total and allow us to get on the plane to America in August so he can achieve his dream of taking his "first steps".

Any donation/fundraising is welcome.

Many Thanks

Ewan

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More Free Speech

Dissent.

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While I've been away

During my enforced sojourn, I managed to jot down a few memos and links for future reference.

Time to uncork the bottle methinks.

First off, has anyone seen the fruits of their labours? Or have the apples still to fall from the trees?

The next time the other half asks that question, the one there used to be no answer for, just refer her to this ... adding of course, "No, it's always been that size."

Speaking of size. They used to say the Polis are getting younger, now it seems they are getting smaller.

On a positive note I was glad, given ongoing matters, to read this. I just don't believe it!

My next post will concentrate on the daft, stupid and frankly ridiculous happenings up here in God's country. We need his help you see!

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Table Toppers

Sometimes I am stoked that my small country can deliver some spectacular results, and at other times - well not.

Unfortunately Toytown™ heads up this particular league.

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Clumsy

Whilst the Lady speaks of freedom, the regime continues in the usual vein.

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Again?

Surely once was enough.

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Free Speech

Not to be missed.

Also available on iPlayer.

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Déjà vu

Mini Me?

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Ray of Sunshine!

I have to put on record the unstinting support my gaffers and those in the Welfare team have given my family over the last 9 months, particularly as it has nought to do with them.

A tower of a man retires today and he will be genuinely difficult to replace.

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