The Shining
I went to the local farm supply store today, to pick up a wood-splitting axe (maul) that I'd ordered a while back. The maul basically replaces a sledge-hammer and pin as a means of splitting logs. It's fundamentally a sledgehammer on one side of the head and axe blade on the other. Weight around 7-10 Lbs.
Part of the motivation was that a guy I know recently got taken to hospital with a shrapnel wound, after a blow with a sledgehammer caused a sliver of metal to fly off the pin and hit him in the chest at serious speed.
Anyway we, the family, have been completely snowed in for days now in Hampshire and we are all suffering a bit from 'cabin fever' - so what pops up on television last night, of course, the film - The Shining! Basically it's about a family who get snowed in in a remote hotel and dad slowly succumbs to murderous insanity - with an axe as his weapon of choice - it's a Stanley Kubick classic, most of you will have seen it.
So I had to laugh today when we finally dug ourselves out and went into the farm store - with three days of isolation on our faces, tensions high, snow everywhere...."er...I ordered an axe..."
The delivery hadn't arrived yet - due to snow....probably just as well.
posted by Betting Exchange Trader
nice one, lets hope the snow relents soon, dont wanna be hearing about a massacre in Hampshire on the BBC.
By 
Eddy Dixon, at
15 January 2010 01:09
....there might still be a massacre after my 4th Test analysis!
