Man in a Shed: Moments of England

Monday, October 26, 2009

Moments of England

Just back from a weekend's camping in Rutland. Here's two pictures that summed up a rather good weekend. ( Only camera phone snaps, but they can be expanded by clicking on them ).

5 comments:

Wyrdtimes said...: Getting a bit chilly for camping isn't it?; 3:57 pm
Man in a Shed said...: That was my view point also, but my brother's just bought a camping van and wanted to try it out.

My son and I were in a old tent. It was fine - indeed the old fashioned tent did well in the high winds - unlike many of the modern flexible tents.

About 9-8'C at night - it was OK on balance. But perhaps it'd be pushing my luck top try this so late in the year again.; 4:11 pm
Demetrius said...: The former London and North Western Railway had a line from Rugby to Peterborough, with a branch to Uppingham, long closed. Disused Stations dot org, unluckily does not have any pictures of what is left of any of them. When the EU collapses into tribalism, I intend to become President of Rutland. It must be sixty years since I had my first pint there.; 6:17 pm
Weekend Yachtsman said...: Hope you got some Ruddles!; 9:18 am
Man in a Shed said...: I took some with me - though I note on the bottle it said brewed in Suffolk, was that always the case ?

My favourite pint in my youth was a pint of Watney Combe Reid Special - which alas I haven't seen for at least a decade.; 12:42 pm

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