Man in a Shed: Happy Christmas

Friday, December 21, 2007

Happy Christmas

Let me wish a very happy, merry and blessed Christmas to all who drop by regularly or on occasion. Whilst I'm not sure if the ~~Archdruid~~ Archbishop of Canterbury actually exists ( can we really just on an interview with Ricky Gervais on Radio 5 as evidence ), I am firm in the belief that we have all been blessed by the birth of the son of God in Bethlehem about 2000 years ago. ( Even the guardianistas - though they no doubt resent it.)

Anyway spent part of the day on the Watercress line's Santa special with the kids - here's a few photos to put you in the mood ....(click on photos for full versions )

Happy Christmas,

Man in a Shed.

1 comment:

Grendel said...: Thank you, and wishing you and yours the same.

G.; 1:41 am

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"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

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"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

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