Man in a Shed: The days pass faster than you think

Friday, October 09, 2009

The days pass faster than you think

Scene: 5 minutes after we should have left the house.

Mias:- Where is your fleece ? Come on we're always looking for this at the last minute.

No1 Daughter (aged 8):- I Don't know !

Mias:- Well try looking

No1 Daughter:- ( heads upstairs in special huff mode - extra stomping employed )

MiaS:- I can't see it here are you looking ?

No1 Daughter:- YES

MiaS:- So where is it ? !

No1 Daughter:- I don't know - ....... - hold on perhaps its at school.

Mias:- Sigh

No1 Daughter:- Daaad - where you up late last night ?

Mias:- Well .. yes as a matter of fact I was #.

No1 Daughter:- *That's why your grumpy*.

When did the tables get turned like this ?

# (( Watching David Cameron's speech on iPlayer of course, not that I tell her that. ))

2 comments:

James Higham said...: These things are sent to try us.; 9:02 pm
Mark Wadsworth said...: Mine are getting like that as well.

I say to them "Don't change the topic".; 10:19 am

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The pound in your pocket

"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

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"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.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman