Category: Blogging
The one on inequality, basic income and anger.
Source: Oxfam. Seriously. 5 families are wealthier than 12.6 MILLION people put together. Does this strike you as a good idea? And it appears that the welfare state created after the second world war, to even out the chances of all of society, to provide health care, actual affordable housing instead of Affordable Housing™1 and…
Saturday snippets 12 April 2014
{Watching} walking with dinosaurs the movie. Mixed reactions, but full review, with bonus features 😉 to come on Tuesday. {Feeling} sore both physically and emotionally. Post pilates week two, I’m feeling that it was a core and neck workout. I also feel that my posture is improving and I’m moving better (didn’t feel like a…
Saturday snippets 5 April 2014
{writing} a few sentences. Every book has to start somewhere, right? {photographing} books in the garden. And wishing I had a better camera. But the next blog earnings are already tagged for bookshelves. Ah well. One day. {winning} train tickets. Two. Return to anywhere on First Great Western I think it is. Not sure what…
I'm making a list
It’s for Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted. And Michael Gove. And all the other idiots politicians who appear to feel they know what children need regardless of what people who actually know children say. Did you see this? In the telegraph apparently he’s talking about a checklist. Parents should be issued with a…
Time to quit…. smoking that is.
I used to run. I started when I was doing karate, to top up my fitness and, if I had a break from training, to get myself back in a condition to cope with long tough karate sessions. Life got in the way, I haven’t done karate for many years and I miss it. Maybe…
Saturday snippets 30 March 2014
{Shopping} for clothes for tomorrow. I’m wearing grey. Big is going in red and yellow. {Making} a list and actually sticking to it. What helped was planning out roughly what I needed to be doing when. The evening still got away from me but I got much more done than normal. {Shopping} for food. I’ve…
