As crusades go . . . . . . let's go!

According to a usually-reliable source (which gets me off the hook should anyone prove me wrong), over 40% of the thinking masses in the UK do not trust ANY political party.

Only 11% more to go before we are in a majority! Thank you, fellow-citizens, please continue to broadcast fear, anxiety and doubt about these almost-bankrupt parties. No wonder they all want the taxpayers to provide funding for their nefarious activities.

Panic Over?????

So the Great Airline Disaster Attempts were doomed to total failure? Just who is kidding whom???

Click here to see if all is revealed.

Surely our Great Protectors would NEVER try to pull the wool over our trusting eyes?

How to cure the body politic.

Is anyone else out there fed up with being told what to do instead of being asked what needs doing?

How about beginning by replacing the current system, which is nothing like democratic, with the makings of a democracy?

We might begin by curing at least three fundamental flaws in the British system, these being present similarly in most others:
1. the existence of permanent political parties and,
2. the existence of the whipping system in Parliament and,
3. those we elect acting as if they were our masters instead of our representatives.

Abolish the first two and the persons we elect to represent us would hopefully have to start earning our support by actually doing what we elected them for instead of toeing their party line.

What makes things worse at present is the system of unelected Ministers, a self-serving clique if ever there was one. Whenever one of them gets found out, all that happens is they play musical chairs.

It may be necessary to return to this subject before the era of freedom and light dawns.

Aircraft Hand Baggage

Can anyone please point me to the highly-intelligent individual who decreed that in order to prevent terrorists from boarding an aircraft it would be essential to halve the amount of hand baggage everyone in the world was permitted to carry on with her?

First things first

The steering conrod on the ancient John Deere ride-on was pushed out of joint when in a senior moment I backed it and the trailer into some garden furniture. Of course chaos ensued, when do I do things by halves? A trusty hammer manipulated with skill and determination recovered the situation, but for how long, I ask myself?

I fixed a shear in the plastic pipe of our central vacuum cleaner system. Being an asthmatic, it pays to keep the place as dust-free as possible.

Rain got into the electrics and the earth-reference-circuit-breaker did an earth reference and broke the circuit. This was not a great help to the pumps used by my home-built hydroponics system which is supposed to be busy growing cucumbers, tomatoes and courgettes, plus a trial potato plant. When in doubt, panic, and all will be well. I did, it wasn't. Much drying and fussing later, and it was. The 15 cucumbers remaining on the first plant gave the system a vote of confidence.

All this, plus the current daily chore of runner-bean gathering diverted my attention from the task I had half-decided to begin, namely SETTING THE WORLD TO RIGHTS, deciding what else to do with the Czar plums now ripening, and making sure the lunch-time medicinal dose of Tio Pepe on the rocks was consumed in peace and harmony. Guess which third of those chores was managed!

I now propose to ponder the problems of the universe and what must be done about them, on the morrow.