FIGHTING FOR A FAIR DEAL FOR NORTH KENT COMMUTERS
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That is what the Liberal Democrats are doing for our community and for once I support their cause. At least someone is standing up to Southeastern Railways (our crappy train company) who are putting up the rail fares by 10.7% in 2009, which is totally ridiculous considering their service is SHIT!

Our station, which was replaced with a brand new building is incomplete. It doesn’t have any facilities such as toilets, chairs along the platform. It has been poorly designed with little or no protection from the wind, cold or rain. There are meant to be lifts, but they are blocked up. They keep making promises that things will be sorted out, but they are way past their deadline. The station has been a disaster area for over six months and there is no sign of a completion date.  The trains are always late or cancelled for no apparent reasons. Most times there is little or no communication. The service is just dire and South Eastern Railways have a massive cheek to put up the fares, especially when everything is rocketing in price around us.

KentNews.co.uk - Train passengers to face massive price increases.

Our English Twenty20 team are almost as bad if not worse that our useless football players. They are paid a fortune to embarress us and this latest match that lasted less than 3 hours must be the cherry on the top.

They had the chance of winning twenty million pounds if they won against the Standford Superstars, but they failed miserably and were all out for less than a 100 runs. I don’t quite see the point of this whole massive prize money for one game.

The entire English Twenty20 team should be sacked. None of them deserve to stay on.

The Stanford Superstars celebrate their victory with their Twenty Million Cheque.

Have you bought your Euro Million Lottery ticket? If you haven’t then head over to the National Lottery website and buy it now!There is an estimated £95 million pounds up for grabs.

92 million pound jackpot tonight on Euro Millions Lottery.

It must be a sign of maturity when you drive across the countryside to photograph a few pretty looking flowers….. or a sign of complete madness. You decide!

Anyway who cares. As mentioned in the previous post, the lovely Mrs Bowen and I went to Cornwall for a couple of days. Of course you can’t go to Cornwall without going to "The Eden Project". This great big weird semi dome like golf ball dug into a old dis-used clay mine. The use of the space is very clever, much like the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. The whole project is an educational charity where their aim is remind people what nature gives to us and to help people to learn how to look after it in return.

They have some stunning gardens, rain forests, crops and landscapes and plant species from around the world, with each emulating a natural biome. Some parts in the dome were so humid, that it was impossible to take a photograph without the camera lense fogging up. The different species of flowers were amazing. As you can see above and below it takes a lot of care and dedication to get plants and flowers to look this good.
 
Now all of this would be equally impressive if I could tell you the Latin names of theses flowers, but I can’t. There would have been no time to take photos if I was remembering the names. So just savour the beautiful colours.

The night before the 12th of July sees enormous bonfires lit in Protestant districts. These are alternately seen as friendly community get-togethers.  Ha Ha! - Yeah! right, lets burn your house down with my small pile of wood.

It must be fun being a fireman in Northern Ireland. Here is the full report on BBC.

On the train home one couldn’t help but notice that yobs had used a black and red marker pen and had gone to town defacing the train with slogans, logos, and telephone numbers.

To make matters worse, they didn’t just write on the back of chairs, they also chose to write on every window in the carriage, on the ceiling, below the information board, above the door… basically where ever there was a bit of space.

It just beggars belief that someone could stoop so low and destroy property that is there to service normal, hardworking people to and from work. It’s very sad that someone has a child out there that cares so little for the property of others.

If only our laws were alot stricter and punishment was a lot more severe for these hooligans.

Why is it that the government is blinded by all the problems and have no answers or solutions?

Bring back corporal punishment, public lashing, or compulsory army for youngsters who break the law. We need to make these hooligans stop and think before they damage and wreck property. I would even go one step further and say, if kids are caught graffitting trains, walls and buildings that the authorities do what they do in other countries (Chop off their hands). That will soon stop all these problems. We need more severe punishment or these problems will never go away. 

So we awoke this morning to a garden full of white ash, and a street full of cars covered in ash. No explanation for this sudden transformation, just a very big mess!

And here is why: The remains of the lorry caught in the blaze. Picture by : Keyan Milanian

As reported on Kent Online: (http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=43248)

More than 50 firefighters tackled a blaze at a business park. Firefighters from across north Kent fought the huge blaze at a Swanscombe business park.  Crews were called to the unit at the Manor Way Business Park Swanscombe on Monday morning at around 12.45am.

Two crews from Thames-side, two from Dartford and appliances from Swanscombe, Cliffe, Horton Kirby and Swanley discovered a large quantity of baled paper, a car and a lorry on fire.

At 4am the fire was scaled down to three fire appliances but crews were still at the scene this morning as they continued to dampen down the area.

An investigation is expected to be launched.

No doubt our local hooligans are responsible for this, as burning things is just another night of fun. Here is a list of their recent achievements:

• Cars burnt in the middle of a football field.
• Portable Toilets
• Telephone Booths
• Trees
• Wheelie Bin
• Glass Recyclable bin
• Paper Mill / Truck (new).

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100%. Well here is to achieving 103%. A little math that might prove helpful in the future!

What makes life 100%?

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

equals:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

then:
H A R D W O R K
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98 % Only

K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96 % Only

But:
A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100 %

However:
B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%

That is one dodgy salute Boris!

So we have a new mayor. Anyone is better than that idiot Ken. Let’s hope Boris makes some good changes to our city. We definitely need some.

I read somewhere he plans to remove those horrible bendy buses and will bring back an eco-friendly route master. That would be a definite step in the right direction, and would create a job for a ticket officer. They should never have gotten rid of them in the first place. Silly Ken

"You lucky bastard" is what the guy at the back is thinking as Mr Hunchinson fancies a feel on one of the richest breasts in the land. JK Rowling looks quite happy and relaxed at the obvious attention her assets were bringing. 10/10 for position. Great Camera work as well!