Author: jp

May I wish you, my readers, a happy Christmas, all you would wish for yourselves in 2008 and thank you for your interest. I find it interesting that I have ultimately arrived at a point where I have had no birthday present this year and will get nothing of great moment today, because I can’t… Continue reading 25.12.07, Christmas Greetings

We are constantly being reprimanded for the amount of food we waste – well, some of us. I wonder exactly how they know, has someone been rummaging in my bin when I put it out for collection? You couldn’t pay someone to do that, so it must be guesswork, or perhaps a new course at… Continue reading 24.12.07, Food Waste

It is only 2 am, but I woke tearing my hair shirt, because Gordon Brown made a statement I failed to understand, which then led to a deluge of queries. I had intended writing some lovely thoughts about the beauty of Ireland, because it’s the season of good cheer; but either Brown or I was… Continue reading 23.12.07,Screaming Habdabs

Medicine and money are linked whether we like it or not, or whether we have a Health Service or not. In the 30s I don’t remember people running to see the doctor, the way they do today, but then one visit cost a twelfth of the basic weekly wage, today that would equate to £25,… Continue reading 20.12.07, Medicine and Money

Lost Pensions replaced. I lost nearly 8 years of pensions through Government rules, Four and a half for my time in the Navy, the rest through short service of a few years in Government departments, having non-contributory pensions, with no carry over system. I am therefore sympathetic, indeed enraged, when people lose pensions through no… Continue reading 18.12.07, Government Irrational Thinking

We all knew in the 30s, that we were British. There was only us here, alone, we weren’t priggish. We enjoyed what it was, and knew our place because It was the system we had, and wasn’t so bad As people might say today. Hitler came with his war, wrecked what we had before We… Continue reading An Old Man’s Ruminations

Generalities, Have you noticed that for the last 5 or 6 years there has been a new proposal of Government policy almost every day? Just think of the amount we have had since Brown took office, and how many have been rescinded or modified since. It takes civil servants to implement these statements, an increasing… Continue reading 13.12.07, I Could Be Wrong, but if i’m not?

I have no axe to grind, and being very old there is little I have to worry about for myself and mine, I do worry about EU legislation and our own government’s policies and their effect on the generations coming behind me. In the 50s I was poor, under paid, with a family to look… Continue reading 10.12.07, Is Deterioation Endemic Today?

Used Clothes Collection has recently been cited as a scam in some instances. I myself have been suspicious that the envelopes with the plastic sacks were not always from the charity stated, especially when I saw some collected in a scruffy red van, assumed to be from a large charity. Charity shops are the sufferers,… Continue reading 09.12,07. Some Thoughts, Some Alarming

EU interference and Imperial measure. Small traders were put out of business because the health and safety regulations were, and are still, based upon factory procedures not Cottage Industries. The over paid and over cosseted mandarins in the EU have a mountain of bad legislation they have produced, because it was policy in their country,… Continue reading 09.12.07. Is The EU For Real?