Steve Heaven on the lawn

This was taken some time ago during the preparations for our celebrations for not having had a serious accident for 20 million man hours on this project.
This is the lawn behind our Esso offices.

The featured model is Steve Heaven, a Senior Safety Advisor, who is a Brummy living a clean & honest life in Thailand. He arrived here on the same day as me: 12th Dec 2001.
He is a good mate in spite of his diplomatic skills.

The skies are just like this now in February...30-35°C and with a very pleasant breeze.

And here is a good joke sent to me by Revel Barker, a friend who can be glimpsed on a photo in an early party-blog:

Bob the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets" and eight or ten roosters,whose job was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced.
That took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so Bob could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning Bob noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! Bob went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer Bob's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Bob was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The judges not only awarded Butch the No Bell Piece Prize, but they also awarded him the Pullet Surprise as well.

Clearly Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?