More of the same at the Castle this morn-wet/dry,
calm/windy, cold/cold and sunny/cloudy, no progress on fettling the garden but
I did manage to remove several weeks of grime from the Honda with some “no
water” cleaner/polish stuff and....an hour later it rained.....
We will have the pleasure of living with ‘austerity’ until
2020, the Prime Monster reckons that the programme of spending cuts, initially
planned to take five years, is now likely to last for the entire decade.
But, in a typical Tory tosspot way he said “that he still
wants to cut tax but that any reductions would have to be funded by even
greater public spending reductions.”
And added; “Now, that doesn’t mean that you can’t cut
people’s taxes...You can do exciting and radical and Conservative things at the
same time as having difficult overall spending choices.”
As well as “He does not believe that Britain should leave
the EU and says he will never campaign for an “out” vote in any referendum.”
And finally; “I think the sense I get from people is, look,
'I know you’ve got to cut public spending, I know you’ve got to get the deficit
down, I know you’ve got to make sure our businesses are competitive, I know
you’ve got to do all these things, but I want to know that as we get out of
this mess, it won’t be the same group of people that benefited in the past.
There won’t be a splurge of public spending, mass immigration, wasted money on
welfare, bankers paying themselves enormous salaries when they’re not
delivering safe and effective banks. I want to know that in future a hard day’s
work means a hard day’s pay.’”
Har bleedin har.....
In a speech in March U-Turn Cam said: “We need to look at
innovative approaches to the funding of our national roads – to increase
investment to reduce congestion. Road tolling is one option – but we are only
considering this for new, not existing. For example, we’re looking at how
improvements to the A14 could be part-funded through tolling”
And one of today’s headlines-Motorists face paying tolls on
an existing stretch of road in Britain for the first time under new plans.
Ministers have proposed to impose tolls for using an
“enhanced” 20-mile section of the A14 in Cambridgeshire, the increasingly
congested key road linking the East Anglian ports to the Midlands by freight
traffic. Along with the new privately run road, two new sections will be built
on either side for local traffic.
Make your own minds up.
A Brentwood,
Tennessee woman says she wants out of her apartment lease because her home is
infested with brown recluse spiders.
In the past couple of weeks alone spider traps around her
apartment have collected about ten of the poisonous pests. The spiders have
been showing up since April.
"I was leaning over my sink, and I grabbed my towel. And there was just this ginormous spider in my towel that I was about to put on my face," Artrip said.
"I was leaning over my sink, and I grabbed my towel. And there was just this ginormous spider in my towel that I was about to put on my face," Artrip said.
When more kept coming, Artrip notified the management at her
apartment complex, Mission Brentwood.
"I asked as soon as I found out they were poisonous spiders if I could switch apartments, and they told me, 'no, let us try to take care of it,'" Artrip says.
A pest control company told Artrip she would have to leave so they could dust the area, but that still didn't do the trick.
"I asked as soon as I found out they were poisonous spiders if I could switch apartments, and they told me, 'no, let us try to take care of it,'" Artrip says.
A pest control company told Artrip she would have to leave so they could dust the area, but that still didn't do the trick.
Nasty....
The man, 53, tried
to hold open the roll-up door with a piece of metal during his midnight raid on
a store in Brockton, Massachusetts.
But the metal
slipped and the heavy door rolled down, trapping the would-be thief's head
against the concrete floor, reports the local Enterprise newspaper.
He was discovered
the next morning by store manager John Rodriguez who says the man told him he
was trying to fix the door.
"I happened to
walk in and he was there," he said. "I saw that little head sticking
out."
Mr Rodriguez called
the police who charged the man, after taking him to hospital to be checked for
a large bruise on the back of his head.
The sleepy hamlet of Mittenwalde in eastern Germany could
become one of the richest towns in the world if Berlin were to repay it an
outstanding debt that dates back to 1562.
A certificate of debt, found
in a regional archive, attests that Mittenwalde lent Berlin 400 guilders on May
28 1562, to be repaid with six percent interest per year.
According to Radio Berlin
Brandenburg (RBB), the debt would amount to 11,200 guilders today, which is
roughly equivalent to 112 million Euros ($136.79 million).
Adjusting for compound
interest and inflation, the total debt now lies in the trillions, by RBB's
estimates.
Schmidt and Mittenwalde's Mayor Uwe Pfeiffer have
tried to ask Berlin for their money back. Such requests have been made every 50
years or so since 1820 but always to no avail.
I do hate a welcher
And finally:
Judge Erich Kundergraber ordered a farmer in the state of
Styria to remove the bells after locals complained that they couldn't get any
sleep because of endless clanging.
Initially the owner refused to remove the bells from his
herd, arguing instead that they were an Austrian tradition and helped to calm
the animals.
However, Judge Kundergraber visited the field near
Stallhofen, in the foothills of the Alps and ruled in favour of the farmer's
neighbours.
The cows were left free to roam the field at night but could
be heard clearly throughout the village, especially as the cowbells banged and
scraped against their metal feeding trough.
Despite the farmer appealing against the ruling it was
decided that there was no need for the bovines to have cowbells if they were
kept within an easily visible, fenced field, with the judge adding that these
collars were not a traditional feature of rural Austrian residential areas and
did not need protecting.
HA! I laugh at cow bells; try living next to Farnborough
since it became an “airport”.
That’s it: I’m orf to bake
some Graphene
And today’s thought:
UK toll road
Angus
3 comments:
I was reading that they charge £5.50 to use the 27 mile stretch of the M6 toll road!
That works out at an annual 'Road Tax' of £2750 on say, an annual mileage of 13,500.
(if my maths is correct?)
No wonder it is branded the 'most expensive bit of road in europe'.
It does make you wonder where all the 'road tax' money goes Bernard the Mathsman:)
Think that town should have a try at recovering that debt.
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