If Thursday was hot Friday was even hotter and today is flippin' boiling. The dog had to sit down half way round the Moor cos he was too hot.
Still my potatoes and mini orchard are loving the heat
I've bought some Fit Flops to improve my fitness when not running (now running 5 days per week) and after wearing them when out with the dog this morning I feel like my legs have had a workout. Perhaps they really do work. Time will tell.
My son is up for the weekend - not to see us but to play for Gateshead Senators tomorrow. He will be expecting a cool North East weekend. He is not going to get one.
Saturday 22 May 2010
Thursday 20 May 2010
Hot Hot Hot
It's not often you can say that it is too damned hot in the North East in May. But today it has been.
The sun has shone and it felt really crap to be indoors and at work. The prediction is for a good sunny weekend and I hope that unlike most BBC weather predictions this one holds true.
Off to the GP tomorrow to get Hep A shot for Cuba. Hope it doesn't hurt too much.
The sun has shone and it felt really crap to be indoors and at work. The prediction is for a good sunny weekend and I hope that unlike most BBC weather predictions this one holds true.
Off to the GP tomorrow to get Hep A shot for Cuba. Hope it doesn't hurt too much.
Friday 14 May 2010
Friday Evening
I am still coming to terms with the new Lib/Con coalition Government. I have read their joint policy statement and minus abandoning Trident and pulling the troops out of Afghanistan it's not a bad job. One I could sign up to.
The Left have already started their return to the 80's theme mostly written by people actually too young to remember the 80's.
I remember the 80's. I was a student and then umemployed and living in Hulme in Manchester between 1981 and 1983. It was grim. Most people in the area were unemployed.Drugs (heroin, glue) were rife, crime was endemic. We tried to stay but we gave up after a year of part time unemployment after graduation in 82 and moved down to London for a job my wife had got with the GLC.
I walked into Tooting Job centre the day we moved down and next day I was working. The guy who booked me at the Job centre nearly spat out his tea when I told hin how long I had been unemployed (1 year). I still remember his incredulous
" 1 year!!!?? Nobody's unemployed that long!" I replied "They are up there", but I don't think he believed me.
I could say we got on our bikes and looked for work (ouch that hurts)but actually at the time we were incredibly sad to be leaving Manchester behind.
The rest of the 80's was pubs and clubs and cocktails and holidays. It was pretty good living and working in London in the 80's. But I remember coming up regularly to Newcastle where it clearly wasn't. It was like a time warp both in fashion and attitude and career opportunities that really didn't knock.
What did it all mean, I don't know. Life just washes over most of us really and we don't get to control a lot of what happens to us- like my wife's redundancy last year. We float on the tide and hope we will make the shore.Most of the time we try and not think about it all.
So I am optimistic about this new coalition. The cuts will come but life will go on for most of us. Labour would have had to make cuts as well and they have taken defeat at the Polls very well. Probably because they think they will avoid being blamed for it all.
I, for one, won't forget their reckless endangerment of the country's finances by failing to regulate the Bankers. I won't forget their failure to renationalise the Railways and the Gas and Electricty companies. I won't forget ID cards, Iraq, Afghanistan, crazy NHS computerisation bio metric passports, the phoney war on terror, the ending of an absolute right to trial by jury. I could go on but I prefer to hope that things can only get better.
The Left have already started their return to the 80's theme mostly written by people actually too young to remember the 80's.
I remember the 80's. I was a student and then umemployed and living in Hulme in Manchester between 1981 and 1983. It was grim. Most people in the area were unemployed.Drugs (heroin, glue) were rife, crime was endemic. We tried to stay but we gave up after a year of part time unemployment after graduation in 82 and moved down to London for a job my wife had got with the GLC.
I walked into Tooting Job centre the day we moved down and next day I was working. The guy who booked me at the Job centre nearly spat out his tea when I told hin how long I had been unemployed (1 year). I still remember his incredulous
" 1 year!!!?? Nobody's unemployed that long!" I replied "They are up there", but I don't think he believed me.
I could say we got on our bikes and looked for work (ouch that hurts)but actually at the time we were incredibly sad to be leaving Manchester behind.
The rest of the 80's was pubs and clubs and cocktails and holidays. It was pretty good living and working in London in the 80's. But I remember coming up regularly to Newcastle where it clearly wasn't. It was like a time warp both in fashion and attitude and career opportunities that really didn't knock.
What did it all mean, I don't know. Life just washes over most of us really and we don't get to control a lot of what happens to us- like my wife's redundancy last year. We float on the tide and hope we will make the shore.Most of the time we try and not think about it all.
So I am optimistic about this new coalition. The cuts will come but life will go on for most of us. Labour would have had to make cuts as well and they have taken defeat at the Polls very well. Probably because they think they will avoid being blamed for it all.
I, for one, won't forget their reckless endangerment of the country's finances by failing to regulate the Bankers. I won't forget their failure to renationalise the Railways and the Gas and Electricty companies. I won't forget ID cards, Iraq, Afghanistan, crazy NHS computerisation bio metric passports, the phoney war on terror, the ending of an absolute right to trial by jury. I could go on but I prefer to hope that things can only get better.
Wednesday 12 May 2010
A New Dawn?
It's a good job I'm not a betting man. My prediction of a Lib/Lab coalition shone briefly for about 3 hours yesterday and then vanished in the breeze blowing around the House of Commons.
So the Tories are back BUT the Liberals are there with them to ameliorate their more bonkers right wing ideas.
As someone living in the North of England and who works for the Public Sector I can feel the ground shifting slighly under my feet.
So the Tories are back BUT the Liberals are there with them to ameliorate their more bonkers right wing ideas.
As someone living in the North of England and who works for the Public Sector I can feel the ground shifting slighly under my feet.
Friday 7 May 2010
Post Election Blues?
Well, who'd have thought the Labour party would still be here and (almost) in power? Gordon is still in No.10 and Dave and Nick are having a chat about a partnership.
I think that Nick will get together with Gordon after a brief flirtation with the Blues.
I hope so anyway.
I think that Nick will get together with Gordon after a brief flirtation with the Blues.
I hope so anyway.
Thursday 6 May 2010
Election Day
At long last it's time to vote. Make sure you do. I will be voting at the usual venue. I am voting Lib Dem as I have done since the Iraq war.
I can't ever see myself voting Labour again
I can't ever see myself voting Labour again
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