Thursday 18 December 2008

A depressing time...

The headlines in the news recently are all rather... depressing. Death, redundancies, closures, credit crunch.. the lot. But one stoey that did catch my eye whilst reading the headlines in the local papers, was of a man who died after being buried in coal.
The Man,David Bewes, 61, of Wadebridge, was working at Falmouth docks, became trapped as he was unloading coal from his vehicle onto a coal pile. Other workers tried to dig him out whilst waiting for the emergency services to arrive. The man was airlifted to Treliske Hospital, but unfortunately was pronouced dead on arrival.
You can read more on this story by following the url:
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/latestnews/Contractor-dies-docks-accident/article-555228-detail/article.html

Reading this story it reminded me of the time when there was a major disater when waste from the Merthyr Vale colliery slid down the mountainside, in Aberfan, Wales swamping a local school and killing around 144 people, of which 116 were children. All of this happened on the 21st October 1966.

Such sad circumstances, but a lesson to be learnt from this, not only is coal bad for the environment, but it can also cruch you. Think twice before working in this industry.

Closures across the country

Yes, as you may have heard on the television, radio or seen in the newspapers, all 807 Woolworths stores are due to be closed by the 4th January 2009. The company went into administration on the 27th November after a long duration of struggles within the company itself. Deloitte issued the company with a closing sale only a week ago, and now have come to the stage where every store will close by the 4th taking almost 30,000 jobs. Deloitte's plans are phased in a programme at different stages. This will start by 207 stores on the 27th December, then a further 200 on the 30th. 200 more on the 2nd January and the last 200 on the 4th. Every store will get 10 days notice before they have to stop trading.
Yesterday the First 207 stores were notified of their closures. Including the one that which i am currently employed with. PENZANCE.
If no last minute buyer is found, then all employees will face redundancy, which is just what you need in the festive season.
“We are shocked that staff will only be given 10 days notice of store closures and deeply disappointed by the news that no buyer has yet been found for Woolworths. Redundancy is devastating at any time of the year, but particularly so at Christmas.." - John Gorle, Usdaw National Officer.
“I am personally devastated for the 30,000 Woolworths staff and our members can rest assured we will do everything we can to assist them at this difficult time. The Woolworths staff are extremely loyal, dedicated and well trained and wherever vacancies exist in the retail sector we will use our contacts to find alternative employment as speedily as possible.” - John Hannett, Usdaw General Secretary.

Thursday 3 July 2008

Can you spot the Pun?

Today, i am going to treat you to lots of pictures of shop signs, But can you spot the pun before i tell you?
Well here goes....

Just For Laughs.

The Dirty Ho.Walk(WOK) This Way.Peter Pan.Piece a heart.Planet of the apes(grapes).So far, so good.Tie me up.Let us eat.
Lord of the flies.
Lunacy(luna sea) motel.
Meet you there.
peaking in.
curl up and die.
Forist Gump.
Here we are.

Knobs and Knockers .... work it out for youself.



This one may not be a shop sign, but i certainly is still a pun!

Get plastered, as in wasted. =D

Haha that brightened the day up a bit didn't it?

Now have a word...

peregrine

Is to have the tendancy to wander.

This word however, used to mean foreign, i don't know how it became wander then. =/

Night all xxxx

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Tetris + Top Gear = Love

Recently, i have found myself playing tetris quite a bit. Which to be honest is quite sad =[ But at least i have managed to get my highest line count, of 152 lines =] That's good for me. I normally get distracted in the middle of the game, and decide to do something else.

Today i didn't go in to college, as i only had one lecture to go to, and i considered it pointless for me to go in to Truro for one lecture, so i stayed home and woke up late. =D It was awesome. Haven't done that in a while. As you may be able to tell i am rather bored.
LMAO, there was a new pavement laid in Falmouth some time ago as a trial thingy. But the council have to pull if up because of complaints that it looks like someone has been sick. Another complaint said it looked like dog shit. Another merely said it looked like cornflakes. Anyway, the pavement is black with yellow granite flecks
See what i mean? It does look rather bad doesn't it. What makes it worse is that the council wasted thousands of pounds by doing this 50 metre stretch of pavement. They claim they wanted to test out the colour, as the granite matches the colour if the buildings around that area. Their plan did not succeed, and they are now looking for some other solution.

To be quite honest, this story is highly amusing, i then found one which is most shocking to a top gear and Richard Hammond Fan! 'Top Gear rapped for Alcohol use'.
Last year there was an episode last year of top gear that featured Jeremy Clarkson and James May driving to the Magnetic North Pole. Viewers complained because they had been drinking whilst they were driving, and claimed that this scene could be seen to glamorise the misuse of alcohol and was highly irresponsible.
The executive producer of the show said that they were beyond the jurisdiction of drink driving laws in international waters. The trust was told that neither Jeremy or James were shown drunk or out of control of the vehicle, but was not editorially justified in the context of a family show pre-watershed. The trust also added that it is still legal to drink a small amount of alcohol and still be able to drive at present.
Complaints about the same show were made about certain scenes that were shown showing frostbitten genitals. The trust insist that the clear purpose of these scenes was to show a frostbitten penis for medical reasons and not sexual ones.
LMAO top gear never fails to suprise me. I still love it. I actually do remember that episode. =]
Anyway i'm sure you have had enough reading about silly matters that i find interesting. It's now time for you word of the day.
Reify
is to regard something abstract as a material or concrete thing.
It is a word that attempts to bridge together the abstract and the material.
Time to do something much more useful . =]
Jessieeee xxx

Monday 30 June 2008

Rapist on the loose

A man suspected of rape on more than one occasion has been seen in Cornwall over the weekend. A man that goes by the name David Newton aged53, is suspected to have raped a 16 year old girl and a 52 year old woman. David usually comes down to the cornwall area on holiday, around the helston and surronding areas. His landrover has been found, Police now feel that he has fled from them.
A description to look out for is as follows;
white, 5ft 6in tall, with a ruddy complexion, no top teeth and a beer belly.
And was last seen in a dark blue t-shirt and blue shorts.
Here is the News story on the BBC website with a picture;
Watch out Girlies.
And guys, he may be bisexual.
Last night's Euro 2008 final between Germany and Spain! Thank heavens Spain Won! So glad with the outcome, now to make it even better, Murray must win this match that i am watching now against Gasquet. Oh look, the match has finished, and he has won! Wahey!!!!
Today, i started and practically finished my 50hr volunteer award, with Vinspired.com =]
Urmmmm not alot else i can tell you to be quite honest. urmmm, apart from the fact i wish my sister would just shut the fuck up! she is really pissing me off. And Certain people should learn how to use the correct lexis, And not make up new neogolisms. Talk, using the appropiate standard english. It's not that hard.
It's that time of the day again.
Word time;
to take or destroy the tenth part of something
or to cause great destruction or harm to something.
Yeah, well that'a all kids!!!
Night all
Jessieeeee xxxx

Sunday 29 June 2008

Mazey Day!

Before i start going on about Mazey day, i would like to let you know those photos have finally been uploaded from the Coheed gig.





Well anyway, Mazey day is a 3 day festival that takes place in Penzance which takes place each year. A number of parades take place down the main street of Penzance, containing, mainly students from the local schools and surrounding area. This year they had a theme of Celtic connections to base their crafts on. Each school make something like this....




This is a picture taken by BBc cornwall of each creation made by the schools.
Anyway, other events that happen, are small preformances by small groups, containg bands, dance, Taikko drums, choirs, well all sorts really. Fireworks can normally bee seen on the friday.


Well anyway, Even though i was working all day, i still managed to see all three processions as they went down and up the street. We all just stood by the doors and watched them. Teehee, we got paid to watch the processions, how awsome!!!

Later on in the evening i went down to the fair! Blarg.......



Words of the past few days?
yeah?okay then...

The word of the day for Saturday was....
zenacious
is when you are committed to a relaxing pursuit or interest.


And todays!
interpolate
is to alter or corrupt by inserting new matter, such as inserting material into a text
or in mathematics to estimate a value of a function between two known values.


Love and Shizz


Jesssicka xxxx

Thursday 19 June 2008

Powerpuff Girls

Today the three outfits for the powerpuff girls was completed. My mother finished them all off today, Well excited for the party now =D For those who are unfamiliar with the powerpuff girls, then shame on you....
Heres a picture:
Yeahh..... Blue one is bubbles, pink one is blossom and the Green one is Buttercup.
Charlotte = Bubbles, Emma = Blossom, Me = Buttercup
YAY! Excitement for party tomorrow....
Wear them to the next one on Saturday too?
Yeah? okay =p.
I've got overly excited about this, that i forgot that i had my MRI scan today... whilst listening to Radio one. They play some shite music on there... D= Shocking!
Well yeah. Word of the day time? okay.
litotes
is an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.
Litotes evolved from the greek word meaning 'simple'
Night all Jessie xxx