Friday, 13 May 2011

An open Letter to the PM

Dear Mr. Cameron

Please find below our suggestion for fixing England 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander
the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with
the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids toschool/college/university -
Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ......
and there's your money back in duty/tax etc

6) Instead of stuffing around with the carbon emissions trading
scheme that makes us pay for the major polluters, tell the greedy
bastards to reduce their pollution emissions by 75% within 5 years or we shut
them down.

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay
back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you
know. If not, please disregard.

Grumpies of the World Unite

Also………..

Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing
home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies
and walks.

They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment,

wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.

They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be
helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.

Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be
ironed and returned to them.

A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their

meals and snacks to their cell.

They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.

They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling,
pool and education.

Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be
free, on request.

Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard,
with gardens.

Each senior could have a PC, a TV, radio and daily phone calls.

There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the
guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.

The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised.

Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and
pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention

COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during
the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in
Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county
of Cumbria?

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are
unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country.

Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq ... Why don't we just give them ours?

It was drawn up by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for centuries and we're not using it anymore.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or Parliament, is this -
You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building
full of lawyers, judges and politicians..... It creates a hostile work environment!

It isn't often that I make political comment, but I found the above quite relevant. Thanks to my friend Eileen for sending the stuff to me.

Saturday, 7 May 2011

Cheap Flights

You may have seen this before but it tickled me! Doesn't take much these days

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Busy, Busy

Well it has been a busy couple of weeks, I took on a part time job as a census collector, quite interesting and a little frustrating. The interesting part was the fact that I have discovered parts of the immediate area that I never knew existed. The frustrating part? really we are not allowed to talk about the job, so I won't.

Last week walking on the Hills above Grane, I spotted this little girl. for a couple of days I forgot to take a camera, however she is about 5 days old when these were taken. Three of the other mares in the field are also pregnant so watch this space



Easter Sunday I went with my Friend Jack to the Stafford Motorbike Show. The weather was kind to us and the show is always interesting.

Details of a Scott Flying Squirrel. 1st Prize for the Best in the Show and rightly so!

This is a Sunbeam S7 - Those balloon tyres were unavailable a few years ago. Nice to see an original model, complete with oil leaks.

Very Early Royal Enfield. Not one of the "Made in India" models.


Easter Monday we made the annual pilgrimage to a Freak Hill climb event held every year in a village called Great Whitley in Worcestershire. The event is called the Red Marley Hill Climb. Again the weather was kind and the racing was good. If you have never seen a dirt type hill climb, have a look at THIS