Happy Christmas

Jan seems to think that I'm a miserable sod at Christmas but judging at the look of utter joy with her present this year I'd beg to differ.

The end of an era

Our second Beauceron 'Minnie' (on the left) died on Saturday bringing to an end fifteen years of joy given to us by our two dogs. She lived to the ripe old age of 14 years and 3 months. Quite unusual for a 40 kilos+ dog. We miss them both enormously and had no idea how they would affect us. We now have a big gap in our lives.

Are you Waspi?

I've got an idea, instead of talking about paying money to all the Waspi women, hows about paying all the men who had to work longer and retire five years later than women? It would get my vote.

Woke or not?

Something that happened on breakfast tv this morning coalesced certain thoughts that I have been having over the last few weeks/months.
Thought one is my view of the danger that 'young people' don't see of a Marxist government. I lived at the time of militant in Liverpool and the ongoing strikes during labour governments of the 70's and the mess that they left behind. A time when we had no electricity for days on end.
Thought two was at a recent visit to friends when I mentioned that a young twenties very educated woman was very woke. She looked at me as if I was talking a foreign language and had never heard the term.
Thought three was this young, six person female group on the television this morning and the presenter said that their video had a 'mad max' feel about it. They all went quiet and obviously didn't know what he was talking about.
These folks can all vote now but they have little or no sense of history or even modern terms. I find that very scary. It explains why the socialists want to reduce the voting age to 16.