tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36187970.post116611453186569365..comments2023-11-03T10:10:13.051+00:00Comments on kinglear: Rotarykinglearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10252474133821652670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36187970.post-1166134885878259592006-12-14T22:21:00.000+00:002006-12-14T22:21:00.000+00:00I somewhat agree Actual - but this one is run by a...I somewhat agree Actual - but this one is run by an American who is an ex-employee of Boeing. Usual story, here for more than 6 months, fell in love, then fell in love with a "girl" and married her.<BR/>As you say, properly costed it's quite a lot, but things do get done in the way they used to in Victorian times.<BR/>And this lot read the Ayr Chroniclekinglearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10252474133821652670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36187970.post-1166133400602446632006-12-14T21:56:00.000+00:002006-12-14T21:56:00.000+00:00I'm quite mean about Rotary club members, mostly b...I'm quite mean about Rotary club members, mostly because I think of them as Daily Mail/Telegraph reading old farts. Or "my father and his friends" as he'd prefer me to say. <BR/>Yes, there is a certain chumminess to it all that outsiders might find distasteful (see, for example: "<I>completed the purchase with a bank loan on the say-so of another member</I>") but I certainly respect what they achieve. We have a village hall and so on here, but for the past 15-odd years they've taken two 40 ton(ne) trucks of donations (per year) to a Belarus village near the Chernobyl area and paid for children of that area to come here for a break / to experience a different life / steal things from Woolworths.<BR/> <BR/>And it's all achieved with will. It's a 'bloke with a haulage firm', 'some other 'blokes' with HGV licenses', 'wives with a bit of spare time to collect donated objects' - it doesn't, with co-operation for an accepted cause, cost that much - it just "gets done."<BR/><BR/>Of course, if it had to be properly costed, as opposed to small businessmen et al just offering services when available, it would be unaffordable. As it is, it 'gets done' <BR/><BR/>- I'm still not happy that they read the Daily Mail, though....Neil @ DNALogichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02031309813612167803noreply@blogger.com