IT MIGHT COST A LITTLE MORE THAN MONEY.....
Our family moved into Sherwood back in 1961 up to No. 74 Harris Crescent. In those days a single plan was used for all the houses, with minor variations. The word sub-economic housing springs to mind... Mostly lower-middle class people struggling to earn a buck.
The transformation now, in 2007, is absolutely mind-boggling. Many of those tiny houses have now added a floor and extended to the point where there is little to no garden at all. Chrome and glass abound with swimming pools everywhere...
No. 78 Harris Crescent has to be the creme-de-la-creme of makeovers. Some months back I drove past to find its verge had become a sort of Zen garden feature. *smiles... to walk past the house one is now forced to step into the road.
I thought back to the days when permission had to be obtained to so much as plant a shrub on the Muni's verges in case of problems caused for pedestrians and wondered.....
Much as I suspected, I was driving past yesterday and noticed the artfully laid gravel had shifted to reveal a black cable snaking along the length of No. 78's verge parallel to the road... *cackles... is this too, a part of the Neighbourhood WiFi initiative?
The other thing that struck me was the litter decorating the length of Locksley Drive up to and beyond the Highway Hospice... It's like...WTF is going on?? As though someone has walked the distance deliberately dropping litter as they go....
A student of political science may be able to put all the pieces of this weird puzzle together but its way beyond me...
The staggering wealth that has poured into Sherwood on the one hand, and on the other, the disappearance of by-laws and the rise of graffiti and litter.... it all goes together somehow, but I honestly don't get it....
The wind was still fairly fierce this morning in the early hours..the white box (bedroom sensor) had lost control and allowed the light to dance first bright and then dim across its surface...
If you seriously choose to believe its reflected light, be my guest...*cackles....
Missus C's Merc. has still not been parked in pride of place since I extolled the beauty of the sensor lights tucked into its headlight. Whether it is parked inside the garage or is off having further 'adjustments', is anyone's guess. Instead we have been graced with Kitt ii, the Beemer - which has it's own special additions heheh....
Alas, The GameWrecker was stung to the quick yesterday morning when he politely greeted Captain Courageous as they were leaving for work and was, (as he put it) snubbed... In fact, it bothered him so much that he passed a derogatory remark on coming home last night.... and *boom* - this morning he was unable to access international sites and told that the "Server Not Found"... *shrieks with laughter.... a first for our so brilliant ISP.
No crickets sang across the way and no lights on round the playing field up by Michan Road this morning at 4.00am. Even the Ablution Block stood dark. The Captain is allowing the air to clear for a social gathering here this afternoon? *beams... just a thought....
Bert did indeed, whether by accident or design, clear a better view for himself... what fun it would be to hire a megaphone and stand silently in the dark just out of his sensors range and then to suddenly wish him an amplified good morning....
that house is used to strokes and heart attacks, though I think good old Bert is made of sterner stuff ...*laughing....
Paranoid as I am, I still found bwana's comment on the Firewall attack thread over at myadsl to be gentle and logical... I cannot however, retract my original assumptions as I still firmly believe that both Bezuidenhout of the Beast and Andre Retief of MWeb were totally in the picture and were in a position to sort it out in the early stages... They didn't....*hawks.....
The old "customer is always right' saying definitely doesn't apply to these two organisations... Rather "the customer is a joke" and in my case, I have to agree.....*smiles...
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Saturday 28th April 2007 at 2.35pm
