Last night we went charity pig racing, organised by Batley Ladies Circle, the Paramilitary wing of Batley Round Table. The first race the pigs went in all directions, so for the other races the pig “owners” could guide them.
The event included a pie & pea supper Yorkshire food- Pie, mushy peas, mint sauce, brown sauce. The last race- a close thing. One of the owners gave David number six to take home; a generous gesture after he had just forked out £20 for it. (They are £5 in Leeds market).
The event raised £550+ for cancer charities and one particularly persuasive Round Tabler who had lost a friend to cancer that week at 49 persuaded us to fork out another £104.
Just in case you’ve not seen this type of pig before, this vid snippet shows you how they move. You can’t really hear them oinking, but they do.
I have an uncle who lives in Canada, now the only surviving Grey on my Father’s side. He is perpetually known as uncle Allen, even though he is 78.
I’ve been to Canada a few times on business, two of them for extended periods. I was based in a small town in Ontario called Belleville, whilst he lives in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. Being 125 miles, it is regarded as a short distance in North America.
Last time I visited his apartment, I took a(n anti-) shine to a really hideous piece of furniture, something to rival the Coronation Street duckworth’s Bar in its kitsch naffness. It features an electric fire on a hearth and the surrounding mantlepiece is actually a Radiogram. I think the Canucks call this the “Colonial” style.
Anyway, I came across the photo recently and felt a bizarre urge to share it with the Interweb.
The clock, however, I like, for sentimental reasons. That was my Granddad’s and I used to have one myself that I bought in an antique shop in Maidenhead. It chimes the hour and possibly the quarters as well.
The Morley Town Council mailing list has disappeared. No announcements or apologies, just deletion.
Karen (The Wife one) says it might have been deleted by mistake, but this is very unlikely as when you choose the delete list option it goes through an are you sure? consequences routine.
It would seem that someone perhaps doesn’t like the potential risk of what could be posted up there, e.g. opinions that don’t align with the party line and are therefore “inappropriate” in PC speak.
It wasn’t a particularly good mailing list, being inactive for long periods and populated by the usual suspects with entrenched opinions.
However, it was a communication channel for many Morleians and even had admirers from visitors abroad. To delete it unannounced in such a fashion is immature, childish, petty and vindictive. It is the sort of thing the Labour Party would do, not the new occupants of the “Morley Numptorium”…
