Old Gaffer

I start here by saying that what I write is my speculation, based on my own experience, and a little knowledge. You know what they say, ‘ a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. For a long time I have been frustrated by soap manufacturers, for constantly changing the ingredients in the soap, so I… Continue reading 08.04.08, Taking Liberties Without Permission.

I am writing about a specific case, but it doesn’t mean we don’t all know of those selfish people who, without respect for the outcome, scrabble, possibly cheat, and certainly can ruin not only the economy of individuals, but the economy of a country. I remember there was a man, I forget his name, who… Continue reading 06.04.08, The Scourge of Mammon

I don’t remember members of parliament in the past, showing so blatantly the wish to be loved, as those we have today. It seems that this wish determines some of the priorities in the order of legislation. Currently Gordon Brown is behaving as if he was permanently on the stump, with photo opportunities in hospitals,… Continue reading 04.04.08, Westminster and other matters.

I wonder if all prime ministers today are as pigheaded as the last two we have had, who make parlous decisions without the money to support them, ignore the real professionals, the highly trained people at the workface, and go ahead, willy-nilly, with their own agendas. Blair’s agenda was his ego, he thought he had… Continue reading 02.04.08, Prime Ministers, Plus

I’m referring to the way the Green Machine is changing our lifestyle, and ever more will change our lives. The problem I have with it is that it is not being applied rationally but more as a political football, the means of drawing attention to the person rather than the problem, and is so selective… Continue reading 29.03.08, Is Regretion All Bad?

I stand gently leaning on my walking frame, with my rheumy eyes, and a mirror in my hand, I look first at the world and then I look at myself, and I wonder who’s the daftest. I wonder if we’re worse than the Frogs, the Huns, the Yanks, or those kind and selfless people who… Continue reading 28.03.08, Are We , in the UK,Totally Crackers?

Food Waste. The huge maw that we call the media, has to be fed with new material hourly, if not by the minute, with the result we get badgered by statistic after statistic often with no offered basis for these statements. One of them was that we in the UK waste more food than any… Continue reading 27.03.08, Another Random Thought.

I’m writing about sleeping, not the sort of sleeping the Westminster civil servants do in the middle of a hot afternoon, when they can’t think of anything else to add to the Green Machine. I’m writing about the sort of sleeping that you, your parents, your grand parents, great grandparents and I have done over… Continue reading 25.03.08, The Selectivity of the Green Machine

I’m heartily sick of being badgered day and daily, to save the world. I suppose because I am writing this, I am also badgering, but I hope that I am treading slightly newer ground, and putting a more considered approach to the problem, than an awful lot of the stuff we are asked to swallow,… Continue reading 24.03.08, The Green Machine

The way in which the value of certain shares was lowered dramatically in order to make a killing on the stock exchange shows several things, the instability of the market, the worry of the individual, the level of criminality and sheer, uncaring selfishness. This in turn made me think of what the value of money… Continue reading 21.03.08, The Value Of Money, Happiness.