When I was away sailing in Leros Greece I had an email from employment agency about welding work on naval vessels for Royal Navy. They required welders for various U.K. naval shipyards; Portsmouth on the new aircraft carrier. Rosyth on…
For quite awhile now I’ve used mental visualisation of what I would like my future to be. Originally it started when I was only teenager. I was serving an engineering apprenticeship and saw an advertisement for the Royal Marine Reserves…
History is important for us today why? Because what happened in the past can happen again in the future. As a young boy we celebrated BonFire Night with fire works and a Bonfire ( a large open air fire )…
I nearly used a four letter swear word for this blog post title. That’s how I feel about the fiasco of Conference of the Parties. I read that the young Swedish girl Greta Thunberg isn’t going to attend as she said…
Experiment: a course of action taken or adopted without being sure of the outcome? I was born in 1951 in the Wirral on the banks of the River Mersey. I first lived in a council house or state housing on…
I arrived back in the U.K. on the 22nd September in the early hours after flight from Kos which left at 04.30. The ferry from Lakki Leros left the previous morning at 00.30 on the morning of the 21st. Arriving…
Maybe like me you don’t fully understand how governments through central banks raise money to pay for government expenditure. What is government expenditure? What do they need money for? 1.Social Protection ( Welfare ) 2.health (NHS) 3.Education 4.industry, agriculture &…
Armageddon meaning; conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil. As young soldier with the Royal Engineers during are basic training we spent a week involved and learning about biological and nuclear warfare. On exercise we had to dig a…