No trade?
Mmmm…Recent Trade Figures (according to beeb site) are, well, abysmal. They expect a Trade Gap but one of….
£7,990,000,000 (that’s £7.9 BILLION folks!) …is just…well…I knew it was bad down the Market, I mean, they want £13 a day stall-rent! …but this is just…
…and a quid now buys 1.10 euros.
Erm, back to Page One of ‘Pulling [...]
Country music?
Some pics taken by a distant mate.
Awesome eh?
The pictures in the above ‘video’ were taken by ‘Bwana’ On Safari. The music is (roughly – very roughly! ) American Trilogy – it seems to go well with the waters of Victoria Falls and those elephants.
Comments? Yes, we’ve had a few at another [...]
Open or Shut case?
They’ve been whingeing about the local Civic Halls for yonks – should they shut ‘em or keep ‘em open?
Honestly, meself, I’m not overly bothered either way. If they shut them will the rates go down? Not on your life! Saved cash will just go down another drain.
And, now and then, they DO actually put a [...]
Benefit luxury?
I’m intrigued by the recent story of mp Mark Oaten accepting nearly £4,000 to appear on tv as if living on about £35 benefits per week. It’s not the £4,000 that interests me – it’s the £35.
The sad fact is that many folk got to do just that for real in these skint times. So [...]
My Fair Lady!
Mmmm….went to see Heywood Amateur Operatic & Dramatic doing one of the ‘biggest’ musical shows there is, last night.
Jo Weetman’s production did not disapoint! But ooooh! the seats are hard!
Excellent performances, both musical and dramatic, from the leads Jessica Moss and John Weetman ( a superb ‘Professor’) and a well sung ‘On the [...]
A good deal?
According to beeb site Nick Clegg has thrown a little teaser/appeaser to the head-teachers…in the form of £2,500,000,000. In return the heads have to really sort things on the education front. (Yawn!)
Now in years and years of asking, and I’ve asked teachers, head-teachers, business – course lecturers, local councilors, school-governors, business owners and managers and, [...]
My Fair Lady…
It’s on this week at Heywood Civic by Heywood AmDram and Op. This is a good show and so far it’s selling out nightly. (Yep!)
So if you want to see there are only two nights left – but check with Heywood Civic in case all tickets are now sold.
I think they should lose the ‘am’ [...]
bbc probs…
Ooooh! Quite a few ‘how-to-sort-bbc’ articles about today. Various patch-up remedies are spouted.
Why not just make the ‘licence-fee’ voluntary?
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Like the ‘Red Knights’ I too have reservations about debt levels at Newton Heath. It’s like building on sand…………
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‘non – dom’…………..way [...]
Egypt….latest…
They’ve recently dug this up in Egypt. It’s a superbly crafted pink-granite (really hard stone!) head of Amenhotep III who was Akenaten’s daddy and possibly Tutenkamun’s granddaddy – although those lineage details are still a bit iffy.
The face on the head isn’t damaged – something unusual on big carvings. They’ve already got most of the [...]
A real saving?
A survey (bbc, Mail & others) suggests that councils may shed around 25,000 jobs as part of various cash-saving schemes.
These people will, of course, be able to ’sign-on’ and claim………
…and, don’t forget, to sort this they’ll (probably) have to start 30,000 ‘Redundancy Co-ordinators’.
Amateur stuff eh folks!