Ah yes, Christmas is nearly here. In fact my eldest son Reece would be able to tell you exactly how many sleeps, days - hell probably even hours and minutes until the big day. It's been a wonderous build up with him, from meeting the real Santa at his Christmas fayre to end of school, advent calendar and our trips out in the car just before bed to go Christmas light watching (don't knock it until you've tried it, it's fun!).
The downside has been the inevitable winter colds - all of us have had them but none more so than poor Lincoln. He's only six and a half months and hasn't been well for most of his short life. It's been nothing serious but it's just been relentless and my poor wife has been up 5 times a night for 6 months looking after him. Needless to say she's knackered so I'm hoping that not only will Lincoln be well for Christmas but also that Gem hands over some of the reigns of responsibility to me during my time off work.
So amongst everything happening Christmas has managed to creep up on us, pretty much unnoticed. Normally we have 2 x 7ft trees and 1 x 2ft tree all done by the first week of December but we've struggled and if a minor miracle doesn't happen then we'll be one tree short this year (that's totally unheard of). On top of that most of the presents haven't been wrapped, cards haven't been written let alone delivered and we're not planning the food shop until 6am on Christmas eve...
Oh and everyone is coming to us this year, so it's not like we don't have to bother. Think I best get home and phone Santa - looks like I'm gonna need some help!
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Money - it's not funny...
Now I'm not professing to be wholly knowledgeable about everything that is going on in this country. I do, however follow the news every day, both on breakfast TV and on my iPhone and to be honest, half the time I wish I didn't. It's not exactly the most positive way to start each day.
In my humble, tax-paying opinion I think that the coalition are actually doing a good job but it's a thankless task. They have walked into the party just as the fun has ended and are faced with the mother of all hangovers. It's going to be a long clean-up operation.
Like most people, I have gotten myself into debt and at some time realised that I had to change my lifestyle and sort my personal economics out. It's taken a few years of pay-back but I'm just about there now and it feels good. As a country we have to takle it the same way and I honestly think that the austerity measures that the coalition have put in place will work - they must. But true to form, sods law comes a knocking and Europe threatens to undo all the good that has been done.
The simple facts are that a Labour government spend and a Conservative government are, well conservative and save. It's always been that way. Labour's plans to spending to get yourself out of trouble is a dangerous game. Yes it worked for Richard Branson and Virgin but that's just one success story amongst a sea of failures and now is definitely not the time for games.
In my humble, tax-paying opinion I think that the coalition are actually doing a good job but it's a thankless task. They have walked into the party just as the fun has ended and are faced with the mother of all hangovers. It's going to be a long clean-up operation.
Like most people, I have gotten myself into debt and at some time realised that I had to change my lifestyle and sort my personal economics out. It's taken a few years of pay-back but I'm just about there now and it feels good. As a country we have to takle it the same way and I honestly think that the austerity measures that the coalition have put in place will work - they must. But true to form, sods law comes a knocking and Europe threatens to undo all the good that has been done.
The simple facts are that a Labour government spend and a Conservative government are, well conservative and save. It's always been that way. Labour's plans to spending to get yourself out of trouble is a dangerous game. Yes it worked for Richard Branson and Virgin but that's just one success story amongst a sea of failures and now is definitely not the time for games.
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