Author: jp

I am all for artistic licence in a fairy tale sense, where imaginations can run free, but when it comes to what is really real life situations, I believe everything depicted must be part of the possible, the likely, or the everyday, not mayhem, razzmatazz or hyperbole for their own sake. I know that I… Continue reading Hosing people with bullets

Before launching into the main topic, I would like to give a hypothetical case to make valid points. Take a large cartel, with business in practically every level of life, whose managing director is dictatorial, secretive and treats the Board of Directors shamefully. He has a close friend on the board to whom he has… Continue reading Poor Gordon

My generation, which is well on the way to extinction, spent a large portion of its life in penury, which induced a high level of respect of the value of money. It was 1935 before we really began to come out of the recession caused by the First World War, and the change in our… Continue reading Minority Rule

A personal message I have not written anything for the blog since the 17th of October due to the fact that I had lost my connection to broadband. What I have been most interested in is the fact that so many people find what I have already written of interest. I rarely get comments, but… Continue reading A personal message

If our governing bodies throughout the UK were commercial, they wouldn’t last a year. If one considers that we the taxpayers are buying a service from what amounts to be a conglomerate, we should not be subjected to all these changes in policy because decisions have been spur of the moment reaction, rather than intelligent… Continue reading Psychological and economical ineptitude

I have not been writing for some time because I now only write when I have something useful to say. I write to my MP when my concerns are serious, and she passes them on to the various appropriate government departments. In due course I receive ministerial replies, couched in broad terms that unsurprisingly never… Continue reading Valid criticsm is pointless

Sir, On the fourth of June this year I posted a piece on Mix and Match, on this website depicting how I used your product, produced at that time, to make the drink, which to my taste is better than any of the single malts that I own and were presents from family at Christmas.… Continue reading An open letter to the Glen Moray Distillery

These days I just can’t believe what I see and read. Yesterday the Prime Minister was telling us that he was going to give a shakeup to government spending so that the reduction in the recession when it came would be easier. The implication was that this move was a forerunner of a relaxation of… Continue reading A quick comment

The trouble about being extremely old is that you have seen so many changes in social behaviour, criminal behaviour and politics, that you become a boring critic. From childhood education is probably more by imitation than it is by instruction, and this does not stop entirely after childhood. One only has to see the way… Continue reading Education and progress

The other day I was hunting about for a shopping bag in which to put rubbish. It suddenly dawned on me how government policy is once again so totally crazy. We are admonished for wasting valuable resources by using plastic shopping bags, and urged to use more substantial shopping bags repeatedly. Now that I can’t… Continue reading Another typical government dichotomy