A blog of life and the goings on around Bromsgrove, Worcestershire - esp. the Lickey Hills and our beautiful countryside. Housman, Tolkien, Elgar - all walked these roads - all left their mark - and all loved Bromsgrove and its people.. A bit of news, gossip and history. Oh, and Harry-ca-Nab? Well, I was a legend around these parts for over a thousand years - check out my first blog in 2010 to read about me..
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Its a mad world....
Off to Brittany shortly but not happy with the state of the UK I will be leaving behind.
Found out today that only Spain has national debts rising as fast as the UK - so much for the fantasy cuts in Public Spending. How long will be before the markets wake up, see past the Iron Chancellor hype, and punish us? Badly...
We have an unsustainable Public Sector & welfare system, a population explosion, community breakdown, environmental degradation, unrest. It will not take much for a breakdown in law and order if the wheel comes off.
For a long time I avoided the rush into gold but, rather than a profit making move, it is a definite hedge at present.
And the Arab Spring ? - more like Islamic Winter ! Our politicians have really f*cked up that one. Now we have Iran on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Pakistan a pariah, Afghanistan a lost cause and North Africans pouring across the Med.
As for me I think a nice bit of shooting and fishing over Christmas as well as a trad Christmas with tree, wood-burner and food.
Lots of food.
As an aside - here's a heart-warming, yet heart-breaking, video of some Beagles rescued from a laboratory for testing that absolute necessity - womens make-up... !
Vanity - thy name is woman.
Found out today that only Spain has national debts rising as fast as the UK - so much for the fantasy cuts in Public Spending. How long will be before the markets wake up, see past the Iron Chancellor hype, and punish us? Badly...
We have an unsustainable Public Sector & welfare system, a population explosion, community breakdown, environmental degradation, unrest. It will not take much for a breakdown in law and order if the wheel comes off.
For a long time I avoided the rush into gold but, rather than a profit making move, it is a definite hedge at present.
And the Arab Spring ? - more like Islamic Winter ! Our politicians have really f*cked up that one. Now we have Iran on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Pakistan a pariah, Afghanistan a lost cause and North Africans pouring across the Med.
As for me I think a nice bit of shooting and fishing over Christmas as well as a trad Christmas with tree, wood-burner and food.
Lots of food.
As an aside - here's a heart-warming, yet heart-breaking, video of some Beagles rescued from a laboratory for testing that absolute necessity - womens make-up... !
Vanity - thy name is woman.
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