It’s a god-awful smelly affair ........................

It seems a long time ago that I wrote:

"Well here we are in January 2010, and the start of a new allotment year" 

and The Werewolf of Hampshire was born.

Since January 1st 2010 this site has had over 15,000 hits and has been viewed all over the world:

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Goodness knows why?

So here we are in 2015 following a hectic but most enjoyable 2014.

We have visited Tenerife, Cyprus (3 times), Sri Lanka, Corfu and Sharm el Sheikh amassing in excess of 36000 air miles in the process!

We also managed to spend most of July, August and September in the caravan at Selsey as well as enjoying two long weekends in Ipswich and Hastings.

I laugh when people tell me they would be bored if they were retired!

The start of 2015 sees us back in Tenerife, this time for six weeks of sunshine (and wind!). 

And talking about wind leads me nicely on to the theme of this blog.

With the news from around the world continuing to be all “doom and gloom” it was refreshing to end 2014 with a story that surely stole the mantle of the “News Story of the Year”:

 It’s a god-awful smelly affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling "No"

And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks through her sunken dream

To the seat with the clearest view

And she's hooked to the silver screen

But the film is a saddening bore

For she's lived it ten times or more

She could spit in the eyes of fools

As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man!

Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

 NASA rover finds methane gas on Mars

Martian ‘farts’ exciting NASA scientists 

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Mars, scientists said.

The rover also found spurts of methane gas in the atmosphere, a chemical that on Earth is strongly tied to life. Additional studies, which may be beyond the rover’s capabilities, are needed to determine if the organic compounds and/or the methane gas were produced by past or present life on Mars or if they stem from geochemical processes.

Lionel Blair was not impressed:

Nor was Tiger Woods:

And as for Whoopi Goldberg!:

Sandi Toksvig summed it up nicely on the BBC’s “The News Quiz”

"I thought methane was only found around Uranus".

Personally I think the story stinks!

Sounds to me like  NASA are trying to justify the multi-billion dollars that have been spent on the Mars Exploration Programme  since 2003.

I’ll let Bob Dylan have the last word:

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly

Before they're forever banned?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea?

Yes, how many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free?

Yes, how many times can a man turn his head

Pretending he just doesn't see?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up

Before he can really see the sky?

Yes, how many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry?

Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Hey Ho!