Hmmm

It has not rained yet today...


31 July 2007 05:27

Today

Any fog will clear this morning to give another dry day with good spells of sunshine, although the sunshine will be a little bit hazier in northern counties. Highest temperatures 18 to 22C with light winds.

Tonight

Dry in most places tonight, but outbreaks of rain will develop across the northwest. Lowest temperatures 11 to 14C.

As always there is a blight warning in effect so please mind your spuds.

Getting used to living in Bogbriggan is something I hope I am never going to have to do full time,don't get me wrong the town is fine,the people I am not so sure of and slowly but surely we are getting some facilites there,the fact thet they build a load of affordable housing houses at the end of my road and are selling them for 1/2 the market value of ours doesn't even bother me so much.

It is the being able to do nothing about the whole fiasco that bothers me,but commuting as I do and not really being a morning person kinds of limits the ways in which I can channel my frustration and anger,though everyone seems to commute thus maybe why there is a complete lack of community spirit or nice neighbourly cups of tea and chats.

Those who appear to be around the place all day don't appear to be the sort of people that I would like to be sharing my Sat afternoon cup of tea with,they seem to not have a care in the world about anyone or anything.

On Saturday while being lazy and driving ot the shops (they are less then a 5 minute walk)I saw kids lighting a fire in an open area near the educate together school (prefab) in the housing estate,there were some small kids and some what initially appeared ot be teenagers,I slowed down and drove by them and noticed that some of them looked my age,the fire wasn't huge but was inside what appeared to be a camp that kids had built so was at that stage flames enclosed in wood.

I drove on to the shops as I decided it might be a bit easier then phoning the gardai rather then calling to the Garda station,there are often long queues there.

I saw these young people heading in to abrakebabra and heard bits of their chat,one of them saying "aww me head lighting that fire gave me a headache" others were hanging around outside the pub laughing and giggling about the fire.

I rang the gardaí and told them about the fire due to the high number of young kids in the housing estates,they didn't sound too suprised tbh.

I then began to wonder were the kids there with them theire kids?I would suspect so...are we the tax payers paying for them to live in the same places as us and destroy it for everyone else?

Driving home I stopped for a chat with the firemen,it didn't suprise them at all that it wasn't kids that did it and said it wasn't unusual,they was probably drink and drugs involved.

In other news,The simpsons movie is great:)a bit short but well worth seeing and I wanna pet spider pig!!and this time there were no kids bothering us in the cinema,I did not nearly freeze there and it was quite an enjoyable experinece.