Simple Is Efficient
I watched the qualifying for the Grand Prix at lunchtime and it put forward an interesting proposition.
Since the unfortunate accident to Felipe Massa, the second Ferrari driver has struggled. First Luca Badoer, the test driver was very disappointing. Today, Giancarlo Fisichella qualified almost last. Yet last week, he was on pole and came second for Force India at Spa.
Now the performance of Fisichella is strange, given that his replacement at Force India, Vitantonio Liuzzi qualified in seventh.
I just wonder if the Ferrari has all sorts of gizmos and gadgets that it is very difficult to learn. It’s got KERS for a start.
Whereas the team with the smaller budget can’t afford them and has taken a simpler and easier approach.
A simple and efficient design is always better in my opinion.
A Missed Opportunity to be Miserable
I had thought about going to Middlesborough today to watch Ipswich. I’ve not been to the Riverside and I wanted to check out some local history and prove once and for all that my family is not related to Lord Byron.
Luckily I didn’t as Town lost by three goals to one.
Kentish Lamb
This is a tale that probably should have been handled better.
If we are going to eat meat, then we should educate children about where it comes from.
Perhaps not go as far as my youngest who spent several summers in the Hunt Kennels, cutting up animals for the hounds. What everybody does forget though is that the Hunt has traditionally been the receptor of all the dead animals of the countryside. You have a horse that needs to be put down and it’s more humane to do the deed in a field on a sunny day and then give the carcase to the Hunt, rather than submit the animal to all the stress of going to the slaughterhouse.
Life is hard and we all have to die someday. But when that day comes, death should be as painless and without stress as possible.
I’m afraid that the laws on abbatoirs brought in by the EU, don’t make that process any better for animals, as they often have to travel miles before death, because so many have closed. And when it comes to transporting animals, such as sheep, miles to slaughter in Southern Italy or Greece, I’m totally against it. It’s actually cheaper to transport them as carcases, because you get three times as many animals on the truck. So you need to refrigerate, but you only need a third of the drivers.
The best beef I ever tasted was illegal.
Twenty years ago, a local farmer used to kill his own cattle and then butcher them in his kitchen. He just took the bullock into the field, gave him some grass and then shot him. No stress and the meat was superb.
But then he was a real countryman, who has forgotten several times more about life in Suffolk, than I know now.
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
The full quote is.
If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try and try again.
Strangely, I can’t find the origin on the Internet, although there is a version, which adds “Then Quit” to the end.
But obviously, Prudence’s law officers don’t have quitting in mind, when they consider the case of three accused of a bomb plot to blow up airliners. They are dint to try, try, try and try again until they get the right result.
I don’t look at this with any view of justice, but it strikes me that if they’ve failed twice to get a conviction, that there’s every chance that a third attempt will fail. Especially, as it will be impossible to find a jury that has not heard of the case.
I think now is the time to give up!
The Anonymous Widower 