Gordon Brown has said he made a mistake over the 10p tax rate being removed. Apologies do not help. Not when it appears to have cost me an extra £15 every month. Bah!!
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Going to the hairdresser this afternoon. A time to be pampered awhile and a time to read ancient copies of Hello magazine, trying to work out who all the celebrities are. All this amidst Radio 2 very much in the foreground and being shunted around from basin to workstation to workstation. It is all like some choreographed musical – but I expect that has already been done. In fact I remember seeing it in a Dolly Parton film (I think) Any suggestions welcome.
The header should be “Claws Grrrr!” I spend time, effort and money buying a nice new jumper and come home to a paranoid cat who desperately needs assurance that he is Top Cat. Result – one clawed jumper and one cross adult, and a cat who won’t take a telling.
Grrrrr!
Sad to say but true, I have been burying my head in the sand about current affairs over the last few days. As a method to avoid the nasties etc it is very effective. However, that means missing some gems. Someone told me yesterday about the woman who came into her kitchen to find a twelve-foot alligator on the rampage. I hasten to add that the animals are better behaved in Dalamory. At least deer don’t bite and they tend to stay outside.
The Hushing and Shushing did not work for Misty going outside tonight.
But then there were three deer just the other side of the fence. And they did not retreat all that far either.
So a man has been convicted of overfilling a wheelie bin by four inches. The world is truly going mad. I do not know how near his recycling facilities are, but think about people like myself who live in the countryside and would have to drive over fifty miles round-trip to recycle things like aluminium cans. Fortunately, Argyll and Bute Council are still providing weekly uplift of ordinary rubbish and fortnightly uplift for paper. Most villages have bottle banks within easy access, so we are doing our bit. But it seems stupid to criminalise someone for such a small misdemeanor.
As for the comments of the recycling gurus in the story – do they think of the carbon footprint and stress levels involved in all this trauma?
Sat in church yesterday and listened to a long and complex edict or two. What it means is that our congregation is well on the way to getting a new minister. Hopefully it will all work out. The local church people have done very well at turning up and making others feel welcome, but it is true to say that a focus for leadership makes a considerable difference. If I could explain why I would be writing a book on church structures and the future of rural churches in Scotland.
