Turnips and Truffles

savingwannabe

Well done Bobster. You stay positive ok. Ps one day you can stay with me - when the builders go and Steve and Andy will help you stalk Johnny Depp ok? Promise.

I was up most of the night stressing about rioters as mum and dad live close to some of the troublespots. Plus it brought back memories of my childhood and the riots of the 1980s.

I spent last night making lots of new friends in the Moneysaver's Arms (downstairs) talking about the riots - a good way to verbalise my worries and this afternoon i took a sick friend out to lunch and she is much better. So a money spending day but a happy and productive one whilst all the carnage is going on around us.

Lots of mathematicians and economists down there i think, and people who are nice to chat too when you are worried.

savingwannabe

Mr Z how do you reckon the rioting can be stopped?

If you come up with a good enough solution i will vote for you to be the Mayor of London. Bet they've never had an undertaker before.

ZTD

savingwannabe wrote: »

Mr Z how do you reckon the rioting can be stopped?

It'll just peter out. The violent protests have stopped. OK, they will happen again, but this country has spent a lot of time an effort into making that inevitable, so inevitable it shall be.

At the moment it's just looting. People just want something for nothing, what you do is attach a sufficient price to the "nothing" so that people make a rational choice and stop.

Lumping both together under "rioting" just makes finding solutions more difficult. It's a bit like lumping a common cold and the Black Death under "Acute Sneezing Disease" and wondering why your cures only affect half of the cases.

savingwannabe wrote: »

If you come up with a good enough solution i will vote for you to be the Mayor of London. Bet they've never had an undertaker before.

I wouldn't want to mayor - it requires living in London.. :eek:

savingwannabe

Well you have my vote.:)

boredofbeingathome

ZTD wrote: »

What *exactly* do you mean by that? Obviously everyone falls asleep virtually all nights, so it's probably not that.

He will come in around 7pm and is usually asleep by 9pm- in between he will have tea and then a shower..he often falls asleep on the couch- don't know how else to put it except that is what he does.

ZTD

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

He will come in around 7pm and is usually asleep by 9pm- in between he will have tea and then a shower..he often falls asleep on the couch- don't know how else to put it except that is what he does.

Does he sleep all the way through?

savingwannabe

bob are you ok? do something happy petal. Dont get down. Am having a lamb hotpot. Shall i ring you?

boredofbeingathome

He will usually wake up briefly around 11pm and go to bed and yes he will sleep all the way through. The only time he will stay awake is if we go somewhere in the evening to the pub quiz- in which case he has an especially late night and is playing pool. He says if he is kept occupied or is doing something then he will stay awake. He does work long hours and lately it has been 6 days a week 7-7pm. That isn't always the case i have to say..but it has been the past two months. So as you can see very little time to get anything resolved and i need to pick my times carefully. He is also keen to avoid any conflicting conversations and it is not one to confront or argue.

savingwannabe

Mr Z can you give some wisdom please. Bob you are doing so much. Dont you get down ok.

boredofbeingathome

savingwannabe wrote: »

bob are you ok? do something happy petal. Dont get down. Am having a lamb hotpot. Shall i ring you?

I am fine SW honest:D I just thought i would explain, but i think i am upsetting you. Don't worry, i will just read blogs and cheer myself up.