... which is nice - I still have a few bits of work to do - but nothing major - the problem with being self employed is that you have no control over work - I specifically told everyone I would be away until next Tuesday - but nobody listend and I'm waiting on a few things that will need adressing straight away. otherwise... I am on my own recognisance.
Last night I kicked it all off by getting the tools out and chopping up the Art Deco chair that the dogs ruined. I shall bin bag up all the stuffing and burn the frame - quite a lot of timber up in the attic that needs burning - I'll get a new garden burner this weekend. I've seen some square ones in Argos. I quite fancy a day in Brighton this week too - probably tomorrow.
Listening to the radio - the rioting in London seems to have burned itself out - there was, of course.. nothing here last night... as if. Boris Johnson babbling mindlessly on the radio. Several 'young people' have been looking for justification and not doing very well - and there are lots of 'but the poor dears have nothing to do' type comments. Made me think about being a kid - I had nothing, we were totally broke - the only cash in the house that came my way was the token 10p we were all given to onto the church collection plate on Sunday morning. I'm not making that up - my parents had absolutly nothing and my dad was on strike from the British Steel Corporation for about 6 months before being made redundant - there was no money in our house - but you would never have known - my parents went to a lot of trouble to put up a good front. There was nothing to do, either. Apart from school... nothing. You had to walk about a mile and a half along the coast road to get to the nearest town - Shotton, which was a dump. No facilities, no clubs, no 'schemes' - nothing. You either went to see your friends and did nothing... or sat in your bedroom reading books and making Airfix Kits ( you can guess what I did ). When I moved to London I would spend hours just wandering around, going into libraries and museums - I was never bored, and as a student - I never had any money, either - and in Brighton ( and here in Hastings ) I've always marveled at how much kids have to do now.
I only had 3 TV channels and a daily paper - they have millions, and access to the whole world on their computer ( or more likely - their smart phone ), we have more chances, opportunities, choices and possibilities than ever before - I'm never bored - I never feel like I'm missing anything and I never feel aggrieved that other people have things I don't - even if I am not exactly 'flush'. I see students who are so lucky but so surly, morose, resentful and unenthusiastic - it depresses me - the more you give people, the more they want.
People are no better or worse than they have ever been - the only real difference is electronic social communication as opposed to word of mouth, and frankly - the media are reveling in it all. John Humphries in particular has been a bit of a twat, in my opinion - and needs to be taken out and given a glass of water and told to calm down. It will all blow over and then there will be six months of hand wringing and blame. Most of which will be aimed at the police, who get blamed for everything...
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Personally, I blame Jeremy Troglodyte Clarkson, just...because.
Howevs, you make some very valid points here.
In the current circumstances, it is my opinion that if one is forced to live under Tory misrule, them it should be strong Tory misrule of the sort Mrs. Thatcher handed out. Then when everything's sorted, back to some good old-fashioned Socialism, of the sort Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle dabbled in.
yes - it's all so bland and pointless - I qu9te like extremes, and then we can ping-pong back and forth. I honestly don't know what anyone stands for any more, if you say anything even slightly 'off colour' - or wear blue and green at the same time... yo are a dangerous radical.
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