Moving through life's seasons
I am going to try and get into the habit of doing a weekly update of things. This will be as a minimum in terms of blogging and I will undoubtedly / hopefully / optimistically be blogging about other things in between. And so in kicking off my very first weekly update – all change for our daughters. Continue reading “Weekly update – all change for our daughters”
I know I’ve been quiet on the blogging front lately but I can’t hold back on this. The background to all of this, for the benefit of US readers, Boris Johnson is leading in the process of the Conservative Party selecting a new leader and Prime Minister. In my view it would be a huge mistake, and this is why….. Continue reading “Why Boris is not fit to be PM”
I remember when the 2016 referendum took place and the result had been declared. Nowadays we are constantly reminded of the embarrassment Brexit has become.
I also remember an acquaintance chortling about the result, saying how pleased she was with the result meaning we were to leave Europe. I also remember commenting how we, in local Government, received European money and how Brexit would cause us some difficulty in the future. Continue reading “Brexit and unintended consequences”
Yesterday I bumped into a friend on my way back from town. We got talking and he asked me what a typical week looks like. I am not too sure I have a “typical” week these days but for now, this is how my week is shaping up. Continue reading “My week”
We are feeling rather weary after being count assistants in the local elections today. Quite a serious matter but actually quite a bit of fun leading to these confessions of an election count assistant. Continue reading “Confessions of an election count assistant”
My MP is Andrew Selous. This is about why my MP is so disappointing. Firstly, he is a member of the Tory Party. He was briefly a Minister while the disastrous privatisation of the Probation Service took place in 2015. It was all Chris Grayling’s idea while he was Secretary of State for Justice and Selous supported him. Grayling and Selous were told many times how the misguided reforms wouldn’t work and yet they pressed ahead with their ill fated ideology of privatising the Probation Service.
I was amongst those voices warning against privatisation on such a huge scale; I was in the management team in a Probation Trust, although I corresponded with him in my private capacity.
Explained below is, in my opinion, why my MP is so disappointing and, you could argue, is such a disgrace. Continue reading “Why my MP is so disappointing”
Time to post my position on Brexit. From the outset, let me make it clear I did NOT vote for Brexit and I certainly didn’t agree a referendum was such a great idea.
I recently clocked a Brexit related post on A Retirement Blog and I made a comment from which a nice little conversation flowed. Happily I broadly agreed with Carre Risover and Tracy Altieri who is from the US. Continue reading “My position on Brexit”