SOCIAL and POLITICAL Really will try to get this page updated - perhaps late Jan/Feb. |
Some whinges and celebrations about the way we live in the 21st. century
in no order of importance; just as
they arrive, latest at the top.
I don't know what it was about Tues. 4th. April, but the Road Gremlins were out in force. ************************************************************** The following I'm leaving here until after the election.
I had to drop HI in town and on the way back, stopped to give way to a guy coming from the right on a small roundabout. This he negotiated with one hand on the wheel, the other blatantly using a mobile phone. I got his number! (And reported it to NP!)
Closer to home, turning at a T-junction, and here on my left is a small child, possibly 3 - 4yrs old riding a small bike, thinking about crossing the road. I hesitated, she hesitated, I was simply unsure what might happen next, so just stopped the car dead and sat there. Perhaps encouraged by the supervisory parent who was twenty metres further down the road, wandering across with a second small child, she rode across and I was able to proceed. I studiously avoided meeting the parent's eye as, if I had engaged with her, I would have blotted my copy-book as an alleged gentleman.
Further up the same road there was one car parked with two wheels on the pavement and opposite to it another which was parked at least half-a-metre away from the kerb. Neither driver in sight. I was impressed by a local farmer who came along later with a tank-sized tractor pulling a slurry spreader who managed to - just - manoeuvre his way between them.
All I need now is for the little car to fail its MOT! [But it passed! Whoopee!]
What a hoo-hah re. MPs' expenses, eh?
Just adding my two penn'orth here without going into too much lengthy finger-wagging, though I'm getting really tired of the "Sorry"s. They sound extremely hollow now and the only thing most of these inepts are really sorry about is having been caught.
Another thing that gets more irritating with every revelation is the stuck-record phrases about having "done nothing wrong" or that "the whole system needs to be reorganised". Having read the The Green Book, I find that, broadly, there is little wrong with it. Many of the apologists have done something wrong and hope that they can get away with just repaying stolen monies.
The only actual reorganisation of the entire system that is required is, firstly, to elect MPs who rigidly will abide by both the letter and the spirit of the Green Book and, secondly, to remove the Pomeranians, Poodles and Pussy Cats from the Fees Office and install Rotweilers and Pit Bulls.That's my answer!