What Made Me Smile today ...........................????

Just finishing the bike today.Clean the brakes of all the salt (thanks medway council)which since the new bus route go's down canal road there is a layer of salt about a inch thick.then give it a wash and polish and thats the service all done.later in the year will be swapping houses with other lady on estate and I gain a garage.so no more standing outside in the fecking cold rushing because its getting dark.Instead it will be dry and under lights and with a heater blowing..

 

My own experience of 25 yrs in the Met, was that things changed drastically over that time. Some for better but more, like 'Health & Safety', the quotas of arrests, stops, searches etc imposed & the piss poor examples of leadership affected moral & created a bad atmosphere generally made things worse for everyone, especially the public. The quotas in particular, often decided whether or not an arrest was made, particularly by newbie cops who were, probably still are, put under immense pressure by the sergeants/inspectors who were too soft to tell those higher still to grow up. Personally I was able to resist any such pressure & was often at bottom of the (yes, official) arrest league which I refused at acknowledge & openly treated as a joke. Along with most of the other 'older guys, felt I did the job at least as well, arresting only when deserved or justified. I've never heard of being told to stop red cars & would certainly have ridiculed anyone saying so, whatever rank they were. I've heard of probbies getting disciplined for under achieving but often there were other reasons like not liking confrontational situations, something I wasn't shy of, when it was necessary. Glad to be out? You bet.

 

I found that bloody amusing!!!! made me smile....

 

Car up and running, done the grocery shopping, Lancashire hotpot simmering in the oven. Lovely chicken (wot I roasted yesterday) sarnie and a cuppa, soon to be followed by a cream egg....BIG SMILE

 

Wondering what that really nice smell is!!!

Then realising the lamb chops im cooking must be done...

 

Pissed myself laughing...thanks Hanna laughing out loud in my apartment by myself!! Love it

 

Finally got my bike in the conservatory......much better as an ornament!

 

The 8 Valentines cards that dropped through my letter box this morning ,


Then I woke up, that made me Smile..

 

Seeing my baby daughter for the first time..

Jorja Janet Elizabeth Smith

 

Congratulations.

 

Excellent, congratulations matey.

 

Congratulations Niki (and family).

 

congrats dude

 

Congratulations Niki

 

My new snowboarding kit arrived today and it's great! Okay, so I look a bit like a plaid dewberry but snowboarding kit is meant to be bright, right?

Now to bugger off to the slopes for a week... plans are in motion...

 

One of those titchy little video camers finally arriving today ....But the lense is a bit wonky , but do I take it apart to try and glue it in place or just leave it? Hmmmm

 

Send it back "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to produce and supply it to them"