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In today's sense Leviticus is all kinds of stupid - but if you think of it's purpose back in the day of subsistence living and thorough general ignorance I can see it had value in applying laws to barbarism.
Mostly isn't (wasn't) that the point of organised religion anyway? Get people to behave the way you want them to, with the power of eternal damnation and agony to stop them transgressing the rules you've given them? For the guys in the pointy hats it's every kind of win.
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D'oh! It looks so nice though.
Sadly I haven't quite elevated my skills or position to the point I can delegate to my co-pilot. Generally it's me doing the flying...
:-D I was being facetious and meaning that my flying skills end at stowing my bag, doing up my seatbelt and ordering a drink. Kudos for you actually piloting the things!
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And slightly off-topic, does anyone know have councils stopped the public taking dumped bikes from local tips? I was categorically told I couldn't take/buy what looked to be a perfectly servicable old Raleigh from my local tip due to 'Health and Safety'.
Website for my local council states that you can buy bikes from the tip, so off I toddled last year, found the bikes stacked up hidden in a remote corner, behind a PortaKabin, razor wire and a sign saying 'Beware of the Tiger'.
Hi viz git 'Oi. what are you doing?'
Me 'Looking to see if there are any bikes here that I'd be interested in buying'
HVG 'We don't sell the bikes to the public, and you're not allowed here'
Me 'That's odd, the council website says you do, don't worry I'll give them a call and tell them that it must be a mistake'
HVG (after a lot of hemming, hawing and conversing with colleagues) grudgingly decides that they do, in fact, sell bikes and I wheel off with a fairly tidy Giant MTB for a tenner shortly afterward.However I notice that whenever I've subsequently been there and there has been anything halfway decent (including a Hetchins the other month) it's 'already been bought and paid for' by some mysterious person or other.
Simple answer? It's a nice little cash earner for the HVGs.
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Tens of thousands of blackbirds swooping and wheeling at almost touchable height over my garden before settling in the trees. Then a car door slammed and they rose again like smoke.
Too awed to take a photo so you'll have to take me at my word.
Just every now and then you feel hope for the planet.
Awesome sunset too.
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I do appreciate all of the schadenfreud going on over dirty little celebreties and politicians, but this stuff was happening all over the social spectrum in those days, just sayin.