I went to Chestnut Wildlife Centre" today with Mum mainly because I love Otters and owls and they have both there, I had read about it in a Wildlife guide in the Guardian and I wanted to get some photos of them. I found the whole place rather depressing, the otters were kept in smallish pens in an attractive wooded valley with a pretty stream running through it. However the otters didn't have access to the stream and a lot of them didn't even have water to swim in. Even worse where the owls quarters these were wire mesh pens among the trees about 5ft square and around 12ft high. The owls didn't look at all happy. As you can see from the picture the otters seemed a bit happier some did have pools to swim in.
Friday, 25 July 2008
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Smoking
Something strange has happened to me recently, I smoke, I don't really like the fact that I do, I don't like that I get something from it. I have tried to give up many times, Succeeded once for about a year when I had my son. But I always missed it. Because I was in agonising pain from a trapped nerve in my shoulder my GP prescribed gapapentin this is a recognised and authorised treatment for nerve pain. It seemed to work, my pain is much better. What is interesting is that it seems to have reduced my craving for my next hit of nicotine, but what is even more interesting and strangely annoying is that it has also removed my enjoyment of my occasional smoke. I don't smoke heavily but have always enjoyed it's stress relieving qualities and the comfort of the habit that a non-smoker would be hard pressed to understand. Although I should welcome this opportunity to quit I find my self annoyed and faintly irritated by this.
Tescos
Today I popped into Tescos for a fw things on my way home from work. On all the main tills there was a sign asking shoppers with baskets to go to the express or serve your self checkouts;the automated ones that never work properly anyway!. There were about 4 checkout workers sat looking bored serving no one. I asked an assistant why the signs. She explained that it was part of an initiative to reduce the length of queues. It seemed that they were being audited on this, yet another example of an "outcome measure" being inappropriate. I felt the signs were slightly intimidating it wasn't a polite request to use the other till when possible when shopping for a small amount of stuff. Next time I will take a trolley and put my few items in it.
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