I really shouldnt keep neglecting this blogging business. Again its been a while since i blogged, i need to remind myself that i have a blog and i must update it, so readers (if i have any) may peruse over my musings.
Anyway its another new year, christmas seems an absolute life time ago, although I am still seeing the remains of it around the house, the christmas chocolate pile does not seem to decrease in size at all, and what with all this horrendusly cold and gloomy weather, making myself go to the gym to burn off said christmas chocolate, is alot more difficult than i would like. January is such a grim month, it seems to go on forever, with little sight of an end. Weeks and weeks of being poor after spending so much over the festive season and cold, dark days!
The snow has set in and as usual facebook and twitter accounts have become a weather forcast, who needs to look at the BBC website or watch it on the news, with every other status in your news feed about the snow, or people wishing it would snow. Well you have your wish, although i cannot see the appeal myself. South Wales appears to be the worst hit with the met office issuing a red warning, which is quite rare, airports have delayed flights, there is travel chaos everywhere. So it does make me wonder why anyone would wish for snow. It might appear fun for a day if you do not have to go to work and you have no plans. Im sure we all relish in building a snow man or having a snowball fight with friends, but once that trampled snow freezes overnight and becomes a sheet of ice the next day, then the appeal starts to wear off.
Britain in the last few years has had a lot of snow, so one would think we would be better prepared. Granted it may only be a few days a year that we get snow so there is not a huge need for specialised snow equipment, but the fact that a few inches of 'the white stuff' brings the whole country to a stand still perhaps we should invest a little more in overcoming this.
Gatwick airport, after last years snow, invested thousands into specialised snow equipment to prevent such a huge disruption to its flights. So when snow was expected this week it said it was prepared, however still chaos insued, with lots of cancelled flights in Gatwick, Heathrow and many other airports, with some airports even closing. So clearly we werent so prepared as we thought!
Countries who are used to months of cold weather and snow, such as Sweden or Norway or places in the US have the amenties to prevent its infastructure collapsing at the first sign of snow. Snow ploughs clear the roads, snow chains are attached to car tyres and people are far more prepared. However they expect months of snowfall and thus investing in specialised snow equipment is worth while. For us in this country to invest millions in such equipment would be a waste, for it would be needed perhaps 2 weeks of the year. Therefore we should probably resign ourselves to the fact that unless snow becomes a regular occurence for months on end during the winter, we will never be wholly prepared for it, because we would never be able to invest the money and time into it.
So we should deal with a couple of days of disruptions and hope that it all goes back to our usual grey gloomy rainy winters!
Friday, 18 January 2013
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Big Brother is watching!
So its been a while my blogging friends. In truth i must say i had forgotten my log in details for this blog and yet it turned out i was using the wrong email address, in future i will take it upon myself to write down all my log in details and passwords on a piece of paper. It may not seem like a safe option to remember personal details but then nothing seems safe in this country anymore.
In the past few months this country has been hit by an array of social and economical blunders leaving everyone in disarray. Last month it was the phone hacking business which led to downfall of the 167 year old popular Sunday newspaper The News of the World (NOTW). It begs the question is anyone's private life really private anymore. In the case of the celebrities and other figure heads who were victims of the phone hacking scandals it would appear not. It seems Big Brother is watching us!
Big Brother may be watching you but I dont think many people will be watching it! Eveyone saw its demise over the last few years with the 'final' series being aired on channel 4 last year. Hurray you shouted finally a big brother free summer, its almost as good as the idea of an X factor free winter, but we can't always get what we want and indeed we didnt. Channel 5 decided to take the baton from Channel 4 and create a brand new big brother. The reason this show ended in the first place was due to falling ratings as the concept was no longer interesting enough to the public. After 10 years theres only so much you can take of watching people make a full of them selfs dressed in dodgy costumes to get food for the week r watching people sleep! However this does not seem to have fazed channel 5 who will launch the new series with 'Celebrity' Big brother, a term to be used loosely as im sure most of the people on the show will be ex Big brother contestants.
The concept died years ago and without Davina McCall at the helm I doubt this will be great television viewing and lets face it if channel 4 can't make it work theres little hope for channel 5!
In the past few months this country has been hit by an array of social and economical blunders leaving everyone in disarray. Last month it was the phone hacking business which led to downfall of the 167 year old popular Sunday newspaper The News of the World (NOTW). It begs the question is anyone's private life really private anymore. In the case of the celebrities and other figure heads who were victims of the phone hacking scandals it would appear not. It seems Big Brother is watching us!
Big Brother may be watching you but I dont think many people will be watching it! Eveyone saw its demise over the last few years with the 'final' series being aired on channel 4 last year. Hurray you shouted finally a big brother free summer, its almost as good as the idea of an X factor free winter, but we can't always get what we want and indeed we didnt. Channel 5 decided to take the baton from Channel 4 and create a brand new big brother. The reason this show ended in the first place was due to falling ratings as the concept was no longer interesting enough to the public. After 10 years theres only so much you can take of watching people make a full of them selfs dressed in dodgy costumes to get food for the week r watching people sleep! However this does not seem to have fazed channel 5 who will launch the new series with 'Celebrity' Big brother, a term to be used loosely as im sure most of the people on the show will be ex Big brother contestants.
The concept died years ago and without Davina McCall at the helm I doubt this will be great television viewing and lets face it if channel 4 can't make it work theres little hope for channel 5!
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
4th January a dark day!
In more ways than one today is a dark day, both in reality and metaphorically. When i left the house this morning for my first day back at college after 3 weeks of eating, drinking and generally being merry over Christmas, it was a real shock to the system. Waking up at 6.30am is not the easiest of tasks when I've had days of lie ins in fact I'm sure I became a nocturnal creature over the holidays. The day was made slightly more depressing by the fact it was still dark when i left the house at 8am, (I have not seen this time of day in so long I forgot what it looked like)
A return to college and back to the metaphorical grind stone of using my brain for slightly more taxing decisions than, what Christmas TV special shall I watch today, was not the only thing to make this a dark day, for today was the day the VAT rose by 2.5% to 20% just to make the new year slightly more special for all of us. In the next few months we'll watch in horror as the price of so many things we enjoy consuming increase.
The government has tried to soften the blow somewhat by not applying the VAT charge to a number of 'essential items' and VAT charge will be at reduced rates on other items. Whoop-de-do I'm sure we're all jumping for joy at this prospect, its not as if we'll be able to travel anywhere to even spend our money as the rail fares have increased and petrol prices have sky rocketed. £50 used to fill up my tank and now its around £60 only a few months later.
So now we can all wallow in post Christmas blues and we have many more reasons to be SAD this year! I've never liked January.
A return to college and back to the metaphorical grind stone of using my brain for slightly more taxing decisions than, what Christmas TV special shall I watch today, was not the only thing to make this a dark day, for today was the day the VAT rose by 2.5% to 20% just to make the new year slightly more special for all of us. In the next few months we'll watch in horror as the price of so many things we enjoy consuming increase.
The government has tried to soften the blow somewhat by not applying the VAT charge to a number of 'essential items' and VAT charge will be at reduced rates on other items. Whoop-de-do I'm sure we're all jumping for joy at this prospect, its not as if we'll be able to travel anywhere to even spend our money as the rail fares have increased and petrol prices have sky rocketed. £50 used to fill up my tank and now its around £60 only a few months later.
So now we can all wallow in post Christmas blues and we have many more reasons to be SAD this year! I've never liked January.
Monday, 3 January 2011
Entering the blogging world
So I finally succumbed and set up a blog, somewhere to express my thoughts and hopefully entertain some people enough to actually read what I have to say.
I have been told by many that blogging is a great place to start out as a writer and journalist and that is exactly what I am aspiring to be.
Apologies for the cliched phrase but I hope that 2011 is my year, I want to be able to finish the year writing for a living in a great job, so only 361 days left to achieve that.
I started 2010 with little hope it would be possible for me to become a journalist, after graduating in June 2009 i had struggled to find a job and was working in a cafe, not exactly a life time ambition, but in 2010 i decided it was time to pull my finger out and start driving to achieve my dream.
So after some work experience at a local paper i decided to return to college to study journalism, 2010 ended as a pretty good year, i had started to sort my life out.
So in 2011 i will finish my course and hope i can find a decent job. I hope my hard work will pay off but i will be sad to leave college as i have made some great friends there, but in a few weeks it is time to once again go out into the big wide world and try and find someone who is willing to employ me!
I have been told by many that blogging is a great place to start out as a writer and journalist and that is exactly what I am aspiring to be.
Apologies for the cliched phrase but I hope that 2011 is my year, I want to be able to finish the year writing for a living in a great job, so only 361 days left to achieve that.
I started 2010 with little hope it would be possible for me to become a journalist, after graduating in June 2009 i had struggled to find a job and was working in a cafe, not exactly a life time ambition, but in 2010 i decided it was time to pull my finger out and start driving to achieve my dream.
So after some work experience at a local paper i decided to return to college to study journalism, 2010 ended as a pretty good year, i had started to sort my life out.
So in 2011 i will finish my course and hope i can find a decent job. I hope my hard work will pay off but i will be sad to leave college as i have made some great friends there, but in a few weeks it is time to once again go out into the big wide world and try and find someone who is willing to employ me!
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