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Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Politics back to normal

So it is getting closer to the date for opening the gardens for the church funds. Everything is starting to look in order but we still have heaps of bedding plants to put in. The boss has been rearing/buying them by the hundred so we are going to be busy.
How the challenges of the countryside are [...]

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Sunny days

Well we got home from Spain alright - ash cloud seemed to have disappeared. Henry the cat, who had been holding the fort, was very pleased to see us and now keeps following us around to check that we are not going away again.
Temperatures here at the moment make it seem we are still in [...]

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The Dave & Nick show

So we got to Spain in the end - the issue is now whether we will get back! Lot of interesting stuff emerging about the Icelandic volcanoes and the prospects of them going into an active period which could screw up air travel for years. If that happens they will have achieved what the greens [...]

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Shot of old Gordie at last!

Yippee! So that’s it then - at last we have a Tory Government even if it is a coalition with the Lib Dems. After all the shifting around and secret negotiations I think we have the right solution. Concerns abound about how long it will last but Call me Dave was right to make it [...]

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All change then

I think the sweetest moment of election night was seeing the face of Jacqui Smith, the former Home Secretary disgraced in the expenses scandal, as she lost her seat. Sometimes democracy does work!
But now we have a hung parliament. The good news is that it does seem - despite all his arrogant pomposity about his [...]

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The rule of ‘jobs worths’

Sure it will come as no secret that I so much hope we can get rid of this bankrupt Government on Thursday and vote in some real change, reward those trying to create wealth and roll back the relentless tide of the public sector together with all its petty rules and regulations.
It goes without saying [...]

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Nearly over

Well nearly over - the campaign that is and the tedious media circus that goes with it. Giving air time to all the loonies - and that is just in the main parties. Turns out that Nick somebody’s attraction is nothing to do with politics and just about women fancying the pants of him. Just goes [...]

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