Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Solidarity

Firstly - I’d like to give my wholehearted support to all the good people of Northern Ireland standing shoulder to shoulder in their silent , peace vigils - today , and really do hope the isolated incidents in the province , do not spiral out of control.

The ongoing and highly successful peace process simply cannot be derailed , when ten years after , the historical divides in the community are actually healing , thus people are enjoying the prosperity and a free lifestyle- after many , many years of uncertainty.

Personally I cannot imagine what Northern Ireland was like under” the troubles” as they were understatedly - called , but the mainland U.K was in this shadow to a lesser extent , and I don’t want a return to this threat , so I can truly associate with my Northern Irish brothers and sisters in saying an unequivocal ……………….


……………………………..NO TO THE VIOLENCE …... ………………


Stranger than Fiction
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Talk about the twilight zone…………………

One of my work colleagues - Fat AL , who is normally as miserable as sin has just flounced in to the office , like a love struck teenage girl - hopping , skipping and actually …………….smiling ……………..

Now has he – got the joys of spring , won the lottery , found the love of his life , or maybe that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ………………

………………errrrrr ………no …….. this is Fat AL - remember :)

It turns out he has just taken a phone message that one of our members of staff is off
ill - believe it or not !!!

Needless to say there is a history involved - there - but some people !!!