Here we go again after months of inactivity. I have had a rough time for a bit but I'm well on the mend now.

Baxter is in fine fettle, running around showing the world his new Scottie cut. And a right 'poof' he looks as well. I will post pics as and when I remember how to do it.

Things don't alter around here much, especially in the winter, to fill my time in I have been doing a bit of wheeling and dealing on ebay (funkym8 ) if you want to take a squint. I buy in cheap cars and boats, do them up then flog them on in the local freebies. It's doing quite well at the mo. Should make a bit of a suppliment to my pension when I retire in August. If anyone can make an offer for a 'Well worn, passed his sell buy date, geriatric gigalo' the go ahead. Bids please in brown envelope with cash enclosed. Well you can't say I ain't trying!

It's interesting the things one finds in the paper if you read between the lines you learn nothing, cos there ain't nothing there but as an ex chicken rearer I found this article interesting.

In a surprise move, KFC has declared a switch from all things chicken to squirrel. Announcing the move last night, KFC CEO, R Sole, said: ‘This bird flu lark has really pissed us off. We have never shirked from selling diseased fried bird carcasses, but this has finally got on our tits for the last time.’ ‘Our special secret recipe batter will enhance the yummy flavour of rodent meat as effectively as it has always masked……….erm, improved the taste of our poultry.’

Insiders say that Sole tried this once before on grounds of cost. ‘Not content with raising chickens in old Heinz Salad Cream bottles and plastic bags, the meany wanted to farm various large rodents in declassified underground bunkers, bought cheap from the US government.’ A source close to Sole told PAP that the largely unreported outbreak of Mad Rat Disease put the kybosh on the plan. ‘We may push foul fowls onto our customers, but we do have certain standards’ he said.

No date has apparently yet been set for the changeover but KFC are known to have been in recent discussions with Sheik Yamoney, Grand Vizier of Dubai. Rumours circulating in business circles have it that having been repulsed in his failed attempt at the purchase of several port operations, the Sheik is seeking to move into the US food market. Dubai is famous for its Bowels of the Martyr Catacombs and speculation is rife that the squirrels and as yet undetermined other rodents could be farmed in these ancient caves. Red O’Hair, inventor of the ‘Squir’l Spit Roast’ told PAP that these underground conditions would give a ‘fine white, sweet meat’.

It is not widely known that Colonel Algernon Sanders, founder of the KFC empire had a fondness for rodent flesh himself. The Colonel suffered a nasty wound to his pocket whilst fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Ordered by a grateful General Ashley Butler to 'return to your home boy, and take care of the women folk', he travelled to his Kentucky mansion where he spent the remainder of the conflict bravely raising poultry. Unfortunately, starving rats took a heavy toll on his flocks and the Colonel shot so many of them that he decided to consume the beasts. In later life he could often be seen walking round his estate supported by his gold plated walking frame, seeking rats and mice for the pot, chanting 'Come on you Yankee devils, come to papa.'

http://www.dotcomscotland.co.uk/weirdsites/spottheduck1.htm

Tata for now

HAPPY HAPPY DAY, HAPPY HAPPY DAY!!!! Happy Happy, Happy, Happy, DDDDAAAAYYYY!!! Funkys Back!!!! I Missed Ya, I Missed Ya, I Missed YA Good to hear your doing fine...Now I expect my weekly Funky Fix...No excuses

Hi Funky !
Great to see you back and hope you continue to have good health. Looking forward to seeing photos of Baxter. Have missed you.
Connie