Simple Truth and Dog collars

Finished David Baldaccis “The simple truth”. An okay book but I was guessing the whodunit about halfway. Very crime and law orientated, I’m trying to work through his work in chronological order and I can already see the difference in style between this and what I thinks is his latest “hour game”.

We in the Klite household have decided that the cats need a collar so that when they do go out they will be identified as having an owner and not nicked or shooed off with a broom or even worse dumped by the dumpster as seems to be the habit of the moment by whoever ! The job of choosing the collar fell to Mrs. Klite since I was carrying the litter and food bags, so I got to look at it later. Now cats generally don’t like collars unless they are put on at an early age so heck knows what the mother is going to be like. We only bought one collar to try it out and see if there is any adverse reaction. So we chose tigger to be the guinea pig. We had to wrap it around twice because he has a scrawny neck. This collar came with a bell which was not intentional. Ten minutes later I hear this snarling and wailing mixed with the sounds of a bell, and when I looked at him the bell was driving him nuts when he was trying to reach it to rip it off. The other cats would examine him with a strange curiosity thinking it was all part of some game. I managed to calm him down and had a closer look at this collar. It was a day glow orange colour with the word written on it – “DOG”. So now we have a cat who will be billing us for his identity crisis therapy. Well as least know when he is around at night because he bounces around with that bell when the rest of us are trying to sleep !- I think that bell is going come off.

Music of the moment Joi – Fingers

Yasmin Alibhai Brown

Last week I had the pleasure and good luck to meet the British journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown. She is probably famous for speaking out on issues of women and race. We were in a party of no more than twenty people at an NGO and the room was quite packed. She talked for about an Hour and a half and then answered a few questions. It was good to hear some serious debates about the issues affecting both the UK and Malaysia. Having heard in the past in the UK about the issues of forced marriages and honour killings upon which the government had finally decided to take action on, I was not happy to hear about the new phenomenon of bounty hunters. Yes it sounds very wild west, but basically a group of men will hunt down a woman who has run away from her family or marriage, beat her up to subdue her and then returned her to whoever has requested this for the 3000 pounds that is the bounty fee. The men have been asked why they do this, and some are under the mistaken belief that it is their duty. This plus the number of women sold into slavery for prostitution in the UK is showing that a woman’s life has become cheap.

Music of the moment Bacuzzi – Why