Domestic Bliss :O))

My day:

 

Wake late, realise I have toothache following Friday's visit to dental hygienist - aka Bloody Mary

 

Listen to Husband's complaints that his plectrums have disappeared, how he knows they're inexpensive but he likes them 'worn in' and now he's got to use a new one. Boo hoo.

 

Face demand that I finish his crossword which already has alterations and which he did in ink.  Discover that he got 2 clues wrong in ink.  Correct them, finish the crossword, am told that once corrections had been made the rest of the answers were obvious.

 

Barrow approx ¼ ton of topsoil to new herbacious bed and rake.  Rake the soil shifted by husband.  Pick up and dump all pieces of rubbish and glass discovered when digging the subsoil. Cut hand in process.  Discover plasters all gone.

 

Make lunch, discover less pie in fridge than last time I looked.  Give husband pie and salad. Make myself a banana sandwich.

 

Put chicken in casserole in oven for dinner.

 

Dismantle compost bin, turn compost.  Catch edge of toe with garden fork.  Still no plasters.  Husband manages to drape rotting plant material on my head.

 

Remove chicken from oven.  Don rubber gloves and dismantle chicken.  Put little bits of decent meat into bowl for later chicken and mushroom pie.  Put nasty boneless scraps into bowl for dog.  Husband gives good meat to dog and nasty scraps in fridge.

 

Seriously consider composting husband  :O))

Die and IT'll get you :O)

Stephen Byers, a man who is ever the bandwagon jumper, has 'called for' the scrapping of Inheritance Tax which apparently is now netting twice the number of estates since 1997 when New Labour gained power in the UK.  The main reason why this tax is so hated is that the bar is set so low at £285K that almost anyone with property is in fear of their descendants gaining nothing from their lifetime of investment and savings.

 

I agree that it's iniquitous that people who have paid taxes - on their lifetime of income and purchases - including not only the earnings used to pay their mortgage but also the equally iniquitous 'stamp duty' on the purchase of their home - should then face having their estate - ie anything left after they die - taxed at 40%.  This tax is without doubt a disincentive to low and average income families to buy property or to save for their old age. 

 

However I don't think that Inheritance Tax should be completely scrapped.  I have the occasional socialist bone left in my body and altho taking IT from the estates of billionaires may not be 'fair' from the individual billionaire's point of view imo it's socially fair that those who are very very substantially richer than most should, once they have left this world, contribute towards the wellbeing not only of their own legatees but of the country which gave them the chance of becoming so rich.  I think that because I believe that no-one becomes rich except at the expense of someone else - and the descendants of all those someone-elses should get a little communal payback.

 

If I were Chancellor I would raise the bar for IT to estates valued at £750K.  That would remove the burden from the majority of average income families but would still continue to bring into the public purse substantially more than was gained through IT when this government came into power.

Say aaaaah bless

9 weeks and 12lbs 4oz, sleeps 5 hours at night and tries to pull himself into a sitting position.

Next week:  Felix's SATs scores revealed :O)

Okay so I'm immature

Okay, I know this is serious:   VOA News - Researchers Study Role of Male Circumcision in Preventing HIV Spread  but really, what wisecrack (!) at the WHO decided to appoint Kevin De Cock as their HIV Director? 

Stream of consciousness ramble

It seems to me that terrorist attacks, once they get to the stage of putting their plans into operation are virtually unstoppable because the range of potential suspects is limitless and indistinguishable from the general population. 

Once terrorists get to the stage where they're physically present and in position to attack, who is in a better position to observe them than the people on the same bus, or tube, or in the same Check In queue? 

Who stopped one of those WTC planes - US security and Intelligence experts or other ordinary everyday travellers?  We already know who the real heroes of 9/11 were, don't we?

 

Why does the Blair govt not treat the British people as adults rather than as a somewhat dim and totally vulnerable target for attacks which they as 'ordinary Brits' can themselves do nothing whatsoever about?

 

This latest lot of suspects, I honestly believe we'll eventually hear, were plotting and conspiring to bomb aeroplanes rather than actually there lurking around Heathrow trying to get on a plane. 

I've certainly heard nothing to indicate that any airport arrests were made, as far as I know they were all snatched up by the police in their own homes and towns. What sense then, once the suspects were collared, in frisking little French exchange  schoolgirls and making a reported 10,000 British families lose their annual holiday? 

I must admit this particularly galls me in light of Blair's flight taken a few hours before shutdown when he knew in advance exactly what was going to happen to less privileged families in British airports.

 

One terrorist a couple or so years ago was actually discovered trying to board an aeroplane, but do we now have to remove ourshoes for checking at Check In?  Nope.  So I wonder, given that he actually was a terrorist rather than merely a suspected terrorist, why has New Labour not insisted on shoe X rays?  Do they have special insight and know that no other terrorist will try the same tactic?  No they don't. 

Are tube travellers subjected to limits on what they can carry onto the Tube?  Are Bus passengers?  Nope.

 

As Bush so memorably tried to say, terrorists are innovative.  They don't repeat flawed tactics. So why are the Govt acting as if this latest type of attempted attack is going to be repeated when shoe bombing, tube bombing, bus bombing are apparently thought to be a one-offs?

 

And if the Govt is convinced that liquids and/or gel are going to be a recurrent threat, then isn't it time that they stopped thinking only in terms of bottles and tubes?  Heels, belt buckles, substantial earrings, bulky 'stone'finger rings, capsules up noses, inside ears.... other places.....   Where is the intelligence???

And why are they spending so much time buggering our lives up to demonstrate that they're on top of something that didn't happen instead of busying themselves in the communities far away from Heathrow and securing those would-be terrorists who are doubtless even now as you read this hatching new and novel plots?

Heave some more <g>

While I'm writing of gross things.... these 'moon cups'... I mean really, isn't that THE single most disgusting notion?

I've always wanted to heave at the idea of Dutch Caps, and how anyone could feel rampant putting one in and thinking of taking it out later........... <wave of nausea moment>.............  anyway, I've always found that idea repellent. 

But excuse meeeee, inverted Dutch Caps instead of tampax or Dr Whites???  Are they quite quite mad?

Pulleeeze, that's so gross :O))

Excuse me for mentioning this, but scented tampax??? 

Now, you simply have to ask yourself why this innovation was either needed or wanted - unless, of course, and the notion appalls, but ............. well, do normal people - even within the widest realms of 'normal' -  do they really go around sniffing the damn things???