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John_Pierpoint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYcOh4bLHyE

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ossie

margaretclare wrote: »

Where we were exactly when the taxi-man undertook, was in the second lane from the left, at a part of the road where there are 4 lanes. We didn't want to take off on the next junction. We were driving at exactly the legal speed limit, that's why I said we were the 'slowest thing on the road', that meant that everyone else was exceeding the legal speed.

If there was 4 lanes past the junction you should still have been in the first lane on the left if there was no traffic!

margaretclare

ossie wrote: »

If there was 4 lanes past the junction you should still have been in the first lane on the left if there was no traffic!

We weren't *past* the junction, we were just coming up to it. The taxi-driver went into the first lane as if he was going to the junction then cut in again right in front of us.

pollypenny

Glad it went well, Errata. Haven't seen anything from you for ages.

Although I didn't post much while on grandparent duty in sunny Florida.

Missing our gorgeous boy so much!!!!!!

Errata

Thanks Poll, I hope you got a nice tan and I bet your webcam and Skype are working overtime.

pollypenny

Well, no actually! We manged 20 minutes last Sunday and we asked could we just have 10 minutes a couple of times a week!

They are 'too busy'. i know they are really busy - but for god's sake!

DS usually texts to skype on saturday afternoon, morning for them, but hasn't done so yet. I don't want to ask them again - i want them to want to!

Does that sound daft? I miss the little one sooooo much!


EDIT: missed call from DS on my mobile. Too damn quiet, it was in my bag.

John_Pierpoint

I thought I would share these thoughts with the "spend it now" brigade:

In his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke wrote that the real social contract is not Rousseau’s contract between the sovereign and the people or ‘general will’, but the ‘partnership’ between the generations. In his words:

“… One of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated is, lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters, that they should not think it among their rights to cut off the entail or commit waste on the inheritance by destroying at their pleasure the whole original fabric of their society, hazarding to leave to those who come after them a ruin instead of an habitation — and teaching these successors as little to respect their contrivances as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers.

“Society,” says Burke, “is indeed a contract. The state … is … a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
In the enormous inter-generational transfers implied by current fiscal policies we see a shocking and perhaps unparalleled breach of precisely that partnership.
I want to suggest that the biggest challenge facing mature democracies is how to restore the social contract between the generations. But I recognize that the obstacles to doing so are daunting. Not the least of these is that the young find it quite hard to compute their own long-term economic interests. It is surprisingly easy to win the support of young voters for policies that would ultimately make matters even worse for them, like maintaining defined benefit pensions for public employees. If young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party.


It makes hard listening for some, but it is here and there is more to come:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p

pollypenny

I heard that, too, and thought it was spot on.. not sure about the Tea Party, though.

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Ahh pollypenny, they just don`t see it, do they?

Ds is moving north, new job and a lifestyle change. He struggled to get on the housing ladder but did so and has just sold his little house at below what he paid for it. Naturally I want to give him and his long term OH some cash but I haven`t told him. Maybe 3 or 4k to help towards moving. I don`t want to tell him too early as I want them to work towards what they need, however I did tell him not to go looking for a loan but to ask us if they needed help. He is ok and is getting into reality re moving costs etc

When would you say would be the best time to give him the money? They are going into rented for 6 months while they save and look for a house

It would have been more like 6K but the sipp pension provider have taken twice the expected tax off our once a year pension and I have to chase around to get the refund.

pollypenny

I assume you mean your DS is moving, Kittie, or should we start commiserating with you?


I'd wait a couple of months to see how they fare.