Over a rather early spot
of brekkie (shared with my dog) I watched the latest
instalment of the Tomorrow People. Today's episode featured a guest
appearance of Nicholas Young who was the star of the original series.
I do like this program - I have yet to sleep through much of it. But
I do wonder how far it can go before straying into ground already
covered (and done to death) by shows such as "Heroes"
and "The 4400".
And so to work through
the driving rain. After a lovely day yesterday, today was rather
mucky. As always I listened to the radio. I had a wry smile about the
article on child
poverty in the UK. Up until now a child was considered to be in
poverty given that the family income was less than a certain amount.
Apparently this simplistic method of deciding whether or not a given
child is being brought up in poverty is to change. A new calculation
is to be devised which accounts for all sorts of demands on the
family budget including alcohol and drug dependency. The implication
being that druggies are to be given more leeway than decent people
when it comes to assigning social and financial status.
And I grinned like a
Cheshire Cat at the news from the financial
giant Standard Life. Ostensibly a Scottish company, it's made no
secret that it wants no part of an independent Scotland. I've said so
many times that devolution is a bad thing. It seems I'm not alone in
thinking this.
And so to work where I
had a rather busy day. And some news. Whilst I'm pleasaed to have had
a professional advancement, in the new world order I'm not going to
be able to take any holiday over the Teston Kite Festival.
So I probably won't be
going this year; which is a shame. I might pop up for the day, or I
might organise a booze up somewhere else.
I've a few months to sort
something out...
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