There is a truly excellent article by Joe Iles in the Times today about the politicisation of science lessons and what is in effect brain washing of our children.
We should be a lot more angry about this than we are.
Michael Gove take note !
Yet another story of NHS staff refusing vaccination today, this time for Flu.
How is the general public supposed to be won round if the medical profession can't even win the argument with those who work in hospitals ?
Also See also this Measles outbreak due to NHS staff not vaccinating their own children here.
1. Chose you process/factoid - something relating to Ice, or cuddly animals is best - eg Polar bears (only recommend cuddling when very small), seals, penguins, Ice melting rates etc.
2. Make an assumption about its rate/size/numbers - but make sure its a big one that you think any change from will be shocking.
3. Do some measurements / send a TV crew / idiot in a Kayak out to provide a small amount of real data.
4. Issue press release saying [enter your process/population here] shown to be vastly [lower/higher] than expect, meaning [global warming is true/we're all going to die/my research needs further funding/we should all live in tepees in Wales/ Socialism needs to be enforced to be green]
Easy.
If you want to see how its done so journalists swallow it whole see the BBC brain washing children here and Telegraph here.
I have to admit I was surprised the e-petition below managed to get published on the No 10 web site. In essence the petition accuses Brown of being responsible for the mess were in and demands his resignation.
As is the standard parallel universe operating mode of Labour politicians these days the response from No10 just ignores the how we got into the current mess and whom was responsible for it - ie the point of the petition and hits you between the eyes with the Kirkcaldy telephone directory of Gordon's mini me initiatives.
Frankly I for one am fed up with Labour minister refusal to answer questions by address the question.
Make sure you have something soft in front of you before reading as you'll be needing to bang your head a lot to dull the pain.
We received a petition asking:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign due to gross financial incompetence in running the British economy.”
· Read the petition
· Petitions homepage
The success of the Government’s macroeconomic framework, introduced in 1997, means that the UK is facing the international financial crisis and the recession it has caused around the world from a solid foundation. Credible medium term objectives and mechanisms for short-term flexibility mean that the Bank of England and the Government can deliver the necessary support to the economy without compromising their commitments to low inflation and sound public finances.
The Government’s priorities to get Britain through the recession fairly are to prevent the collapse of the banking system, so that people’s savings are secure and the banks can do their job; to get the financial system lending responsibly again so as to support businesses, jobs and growth; to support the economy and jobs through direct government action, including tax cuts and important investment projects; and to help people through these tough times, from homeowners with difficulties paying their mortgages, or people seeking employment or training, to small businesses with cashflow problems and larger businesses needing working capital.
Action has also been taken to boost our economy by putting money in people’s pockets and bringing investment plans forward. This includes:
· income tax cuts of £145 for every basic rate taxpayer;
· £60 extra for every pensioner in January 2009;
· a VAT cut worth on average over £200 to every family this year; and
· an extra £3 billion investment in projects that will protect and create jobs.
Further details of the measures the Government has put in place to provide real help now so that homeowners, families and businesses can get through the downturn fairly are available online at http://www.realhelpnow.gov.uk/
In addition to discretionary fiscal policy to support the economy through these difficult times the 2008 Pre-Budget Report announced a sustained fiscal consolidation from 2010-11 when the economy is expected to be recovering and able to support a reduction in borrowing:
· restricting the income tax personal allowance for those with incomes over £100,000 from April 2010, and introducing a new additional higher rate of income tax of 45 per cent for those with incomes above £150,000 from April 2011;
· increasing the employee, employer and self-employed rates of national insurance contributions by 0.5 per cent from April 2011;
· to offset the effects of the temporary reduction in VAT, increasing alcohol and tobacco duties, maintaining these increases after December 2009 to support fiscal consolidation; and following a fall in pump prices of over 20 pence per litre from their summer peaks, a two pence per litre increase in fuel duty from 1 December 2008; and
· an additional £5 billion value for money target for 2010-11 and setting assumptions for spending growth from 2011-12 onwards.
We will continue to do everything we can in the current difficult times to give real help now to families and businesses, and help our economy to come through this recession as quickly as possible, and we will take the tough decisions in the medium-term to maintain low inflation and sound public finances. This will ensure the UK is well-placed to prosper in the new global economy which will follow the current global recession.
The Telegraph reports: "Gordon Brown helped fuel Britain’s banking crisis by pressuring the City regulator not to intervene and stop reckless lending, Lord Turner, the head of the Financial Services Authority, said. " Full article here by Robert Winnett.
On any other day this would have caused a storm that could have sweeped the prime minster from office.
Gordon's finger prints have now been identified at the scene of the crime and a witness has identified him as leaving the scene. How long can it be before the jury of public opinion finds him guilty ?
Enough time has passed for me to realise that something you just don't understand unless you have experienced them yourself. So its hard to know what to say about the passing away of David and Samantha Cameron's son Ivan.
Its deeply sad and we all feel for them, but perhaps only a few fully understand.
I'm sure many people will pray for the Cameron family over the next few weeks.
Much as I hate to say it Jack Straw is right to block the early publication of the minutes from the cabinet meeting on the discussion on going to war with Iraq.
Its tempting to get on the band wagon for freedom of information here, and I suspect Labour have some very dirty linen they don't want washing in public. But there is a key issue about the form of government we want to have.
If cabinet minutes are freely available before the usual period of time then people will be guarded about their contribution. Some will grandstand, other will keep quiet, and - and this is the main point - the real meeting and decision will take place else where. That alternative decision making will probably be ad hock, and probably won't involve all the people who are cabinet ministers, but other who are "press advisers" etc.
So instead of freedom of information we would loose cabinet government. ( Okay I know Labour effectively operated from a Sofa for ten years, but that their sloppy shameless style of government. )
None of this means that Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw etc aren't war criminals - its just that cabinet minutes shouldn't be used to prove ( or disprove ) it.
Just look at this web site ( screen shot below ) and tell me tax payers money isn't being used to provide political campaigning for the Labour party.
Surely Sir Gus O'Donnell should have something to say about this ? This is clearly a misuse of government resources for political campaigning.
PS If you want to read Brown's pathetic attempts at misdirection and dishonest and shameful omission of his own culpability go here.
See also:
Dizzy wasn't impressed earlier this morning.
The "Real Help Now" sound bite is clearly a Labour party campaigning slogan as can be seen by looking at Liam Byrne blog here, Jaqui Smith ( who certainly knows how to help herself) here , and some Labour MPs site here.
The problem with Labour is they think their parasitical existence and expense accounts and the national interest are the same thing.
A commentator at Guido's web site ( who posts off subject) has out it all well here.
Alice isn't impressed with the propoganda element or the content here.
Yep the most expensive man in UK history is at it again. He's banning a type of mortgage ( or rather remember this is New Labour - announcing he's thinking about it - this usually results in nothing other than the same announcement in 6 months and a demand for more deadlines from the BBC etc ) that no one is issuing any more.
Having ordered Northern Rock to run down its mortgage business ( ie get rid of its good risks ) its now going to reverse - to hoover up more bad risks no one else wants ( aka expand its businesses ). Maybe this is a way of creating the "bad bank" on the quiet.
Anyway the concern is that there are to many smart young people who are waiting for the bottom of the housing market before jumping in to tale out massive mortgages which will soon put them in negative equity ( they sub consciously acknowledge this with the 100% mortgage spin announcement ).
That's really cynical.
And of course the bail out of Gordon's career will continue to be funded by all of us as we have to pay the debts of this Labour government for the rest of our lives.
Further: Guido has the details of how the government ( ie Gordon Brown ) was itself issuing 100% mortgages till very recently.
The panic has started about the local council wins for the BNP in Sevenoaks.
There's general shock, and especially the official politically correct type.
My guess is that is mostly a protest vote. The more commentators and especially government ministers go on about how obnoxious and "unacceptable" the BNP are, the more those who would dearly love to kick our political class in the **** see their way of doing so. This will be hard for opinion polls and canvassers to pick up, but there will have been many angry people putting their cross where they think it will annoy the whole political class the most.
Labour are terrified. ( At least when their senior people can drag themselves away from plotting their own personal advancement. )
Labour's vote could collapse.
And they realise this and we are already getting the responses which will consist of the following:
1) Announcements about getting tough on Immigration. ( Not they only do this to save their seats, and probably won't implement much of it anyway. Just wind your mind back to 2005 to see how insincere they really are on this.)
2) A greater search for scape goats, as shown by John Prescott (he who disgraced high office and in true New Labour fashion didn't even have to resign for it !) trying to run a campaign against bank bonuses, and in effect his own governments policies.
3) Lots of Hazel Blears type moments as Labour tries to hug the white working class.
4) A half hated attempt to blame the Tories for the BNP.
5) Every third BBC anouncement to drop the word "far" from right wing before describing the BNP ( after all this way they can smear the Conservatives at the same time as reporting the news - despite the fact that the BNP is a left wing party taking its votes from Labour ).
6) Trevour Phillips on TV talking about the white workling class needing help also.
7) Some guff on council homes to try to get white people further up the housing list. ( Yes that would be racism to you and me. )
But the really dangerous stuff will start if the BNP do well in the June elections. My guess is they will turn on the press, and the Daily Mail in particular. Expect new laws on inciting community division and not respecting "Diversity" as Labour desperately sacrifices anyone and anything to claw onto office for a few more years.
PS I find the rise of the BNP worrying, but understandable right now. They are no where near forming a govt, ever. Even the Lib Dems have better prospects. But their rise may create fissures in our society, equivalent to the impact of Islamicism and its associated terrorism, and for that reason they represent a threat.
The best solution is to try and provide another route to allow people to express their dissatisfaction with our political system. I would suggest the "Non of the Above" option on ballots should hoover up a lot of the kick em' votes, as well as giving our political class something real to worry about.
How about also only paying our MP's in proportion to their turn out at elections ?
Some decades ago I was a young engineering student and my father send me a copy of a letter that Sir Frank Whittle was to send to the Washington Post. A few weeks ago I came across it in a box, along with the letter my late Father sent me. That letter was dated 1988, so the letter on the greenhouse effect must be earlier or the same date. What stuck me was how a man in the later part of his life could see so clearly to the weak points of the argument, then know as "the greenhouse effect" ( now its Climate Change after being rebadged from the Global Warming title, due to the need to explain why its getting colder - but of course its still our fault ). Anyway, whilst perhaps some elements of the letter can be challenged, I was particularly impressed by how he went straight for the obvious uncertainties and weak points in the warmists argument.
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT NONSENSE
Almost every day we read about the "Greenhouse Doomsday Scenario (headline in "The Washington Post" of 31 July), i.e. the alleged trap ping of heat by 'greenhouse gases', chiefly carbon dioxide. We are told, that within a mere 50-60 years or so, all sorts of unpleasant-things will happen as a result of a world-wide rise in temperature: Holland, Bangladesh, and large areas of other lowlying land will be submerged by the rise in sea level, due in turn to the melting of the polar icecaps: droughts of increasing severity will occur, and so on. This sort of thing is being taken so seriously that two bills have been introduced in Congress relating to the subject.
All this is the kind of science fiction we can do without.
The whole business seems to be based on some very sloppy thinking. A N.A.S.A. scientist recently stated on TV that the world's average temperature has risen by six tenths of a degree centigrade in the last one hundred years. It would be interesting to know who measured the temperatures to this degree of accuracy over, say, the whole the Pacific Ocean, at all heights above it,at all hours of the day and night,and at all times of the year. Ditto for the rest of the earth's 197 million square miles. To measure the average temperature to this degree of accuracy over a single state of the U.S.A. would be quite a feat.
The use of the word 'greenhouse' is very misleading. The glass of a greenhouse does not block outgoing radiation as the so-called greenhouse gases are supposed to do: it prevents the loss of heat by convection by enclosure, and, being a very bad conductor, it prevents heat loss by conduction. If glass blocked the longer waves of radiation the sunset would appear a different color when viewed through it.
The doomsayers seem to be blind to some major fallacies in their arguments: for one thing they seem to overlook completely the fact that the oceans contain many times more carbon dioxide than the' atmosphere and therefore tend to act as a 'buffer' to •regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide. They never mention (in anything I have seen) that the carbon dioxide produced in the combustion of petroleum, coal, etc. is merely returning to the atmosphere some of the carbon dioxide taken from it many millions of years ago. They assume that all the carbon dioxide so produced, stays in the atmosphere,which it does not. They do not stress sufficiently that carbon dioxide is the main 'food' of all vegetation and that, without it there would be no plant life. Indeed, since all food chains begin with vegetation, all life (except, perhaps, anaerobic bacterial depends on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and ocean. Much of the carbon dioxide consumed by vegetation is, of course, returned to the atmosphere by the respiration of plants and animals, and by decay, but not all of it, because some is dissolved in ground water and ends up in the ocean.
One writer stated that there is now nearly twice as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as there was during the last ice age. This just cannot be true: the very opposite is much more likely because carbon dioxide is continuously going out of circulation for ever by ending up in carbonate rocks (limestone, dolomite, chalk, etc.) coral etc. (it is. said that, on the Great Barrier Reef alone, coral is forming at the rate of twelve tons per acre per year; which means that more than five tons of carbon dioxide per acre per year is permanently removed from the atmosphere and ocean). The weathering of rocks is another mechanism by which carbon dioxide is permanently removed because it is caused mainly by the acidic effect of carbon dioxide dissolved in rain. The carbonates formed in the process being eventually carried off th-the<-»eceafc Us tVic Carboniferous period,atmospheric carbon dioxide must have been hundreds of times more than it is today, because vast quantities now 'locked up' in carbonate rocks were then in the atmosphere and ocean, and yet, then, there were great ice sheets over India, Africa, etc. I wonder how the doomsayers would explain that. Some greenhouse effect!!
Our use of fossil fuels (petroleum, etc.) may have temporarily suspended or even reversed, the long term depletion of the carbon dioxide, but when these run out ( and this will take a lot longer than other doomsayers predict) the net depletion will resume, It may well happen that in, say, rather less than a million years, mankind, if still around, may be driven to growing all his food in greenhouses artificially supplied with carbon dioxide produced by heating limestone- for which he would have to use nuclear or solar heat.
While one group is stressing the greenhouse effect, another is predicting another ice age. How confusing for the man in the street!! (to anyone who has experienced the last three summers in England, this latter prediction seems more believable).
Some people seem to think that recent record high temperatures in the U.S.A. confirm the greenhouse effect, overlooking the fact that there have been some record lows at night, which is opposite from what one would expect because the night-time loss of heat by radiation ought to be blocked by the greenhouse effect.
There are other questions the doomsayers might find it difficult to answer: has the color of the sky or sunset changed during the last few decades? Has there been a world-wide rise in sea level in the recent past?
Since there is no evidence that the dire events now predicted ever happened in the distant past when there was quite certainly far more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there is today, it seems certain that they will not happen in the future.
As it half term we've had family around to visit, and yesterday I thought we'd take my nephews to see Stonehenge ( click on picture for full view ).
Parts of the site date back between 4000 and 2000 years ago, and you can't help but marvel at the fact that any of it stands at all, let alone what it was for and the mysteries that surround it.
I tried to give my son a sense of the time by comparing to how old he was, but I don't think he quite 'got it'. But then perhaps I didn't when my father and mother took me ( I seem to remember being able to touch the stone and walk inside ). That's my personal perspective of time going past.
The problems we have today will melt away, even the economic ones, and perhaps something of what we are now will be left for future generations to wonder about from their point in time and perspective.
Yesterday was a great day for walking around, the position of the stones has fantastic atmosphere, especially such a bright day.
At the same time I could compare notes with my brother from the north west, where it seems to me the full force of the economic heart attack occurring in our country has yet to make itself felt. Shopping centres still open, business seems to carry on. Down here things are very serious, soon they will be everywhere else also.
I can't help but wonder what sort of shock is coming, is it the type that would have been a poor harvest 2000 years ago, or an unforeseen an irreversible shock like the Roman's invading.
We may have to stand back a bit in time to get the full picture.
There have been a whole series of announcements as the most partisan and political of prime ministers tries to remove the lines from the next Conservative manifesto.
Examples recently include:
There is a pattern emerging. All those who have an assets are systematically being mugged, taxed or have their assets stolen by inflation to support the unelected regime and career of Gordon Brown.
Today we discover the HBOS has losses of over £10 billion from last year. Can you remember Gordon Brown's little chat with the chairman of Llyods TSB who then rail roaded the merger through, whilst Gordon Brown made the exceptional changes to competition rules.
In short the Lloyds share holders were mugged.
PS Just heard Brown trying to communicate with ordinary people in R4 talking on the radio and with ex Woolies employees in the marginal constituency of Corby. He just lacks the common touch and could only either quote his usual tractor stats answers or say he doesn't understand and someone will get back to you. ( In the latter case a woman was asking why she had paid NI contributions for 25 years, when they won't pay her job seekers allowance because her husband works under Labour anti-marriage/broken families only welfare state. )
Today let me recommend the article by Archbishop John Sentamu in The Daily Mail, which is primarily written in relation to recent events of anti-Christian oppression by the Labour lead state.
Key quotes include:
In the 8th century, the Venerable Bede, the father of English history, wrote not only of how the English were converted to Christianity, but how the Gospel played a major social and civilising role in this country by uniting a group of warring tribes and conferring English nationhood upon them.
Rejoice, rejoice a British lead consortium is to build the new trains !! Or so the patriotic announcer of the BBC's World at One announced.
But wait - all the high value work is being done in Japan. The Engineering design and manufacture, just some assembly to be done - at a yet undisclosed marginal constituency location, probably to be announced just before a general election.
So this is the rebalancing of the economy Brown, Balls and co bullshit about.
The British based Engineering firm ( but again foreign owned ) lost out.
Still let me add my congratulations to the Japanese on another manufacturing contract. Selling trains back to the UK, the country that invented them.
The BBC must investigate why it allows such abject political bias to be broadcast. Surely its time some editors were sacked for political bias.
Further This has bothered Iain Dale also, who has posted twice on this here and here and points to the post of LobbyDog who shows that the headline job numbers are highly suspect and the usual Labour spin, the new jobs really being measured in hundreds.
Again we all have to kick ourselves if we believe a single word uttered by the Labour spin and disinformation machine. Don't believe me -see the row about Dolly's CV here ( if you've missed it then you really should have a look ).
Update Looks like the BBC has finally woken up, but of course Labour have had the headlines they wanted.
Also Bob Laxton, Labour MP for Derby North "This is a crass decision which gives the Japanese an opportunity of getting into the UK market. I don't believe for one moment the figure of 12,500 jobs because work will be brought into the United Kingdom from overseas."
We are getting used to some apologies, a series of Bankers ( most of whom we're very pally with Labour, and many ennobled during the Labour Govt ) suddenly becoming hate figures who Gordon Brown is "very angry" with.
But I can hear a rustle in the undergrowth. Its a question. It might be the question. The question that will kill Gordon Brown's premiership as surely as the stake and hammer waiting for it at the next general election will. And it goes like this:
"When was Gordon Brown warned that British banks where running unexceptable risks ?"
There are good reasons to suspect the answer is a few years ago, and if so then Brown must resign also.
PS Yes I know Labour will think of some Spin to get around this, but the public are wise to and tired of their tricks and lies.
There is another disturbing example of the Labour inspired persecution of Christians, this time of a little girl and her mother at a Devon primary school.
In short a little five year old girl was overheard by a teacher discussing heaven and God with a friend and had been pulled to one side and told off by her "supporting equality and diversity" teacher. This lead to her being in tears when picked up by her mother after school.
Her mother also happens to work at the school, and sent a private email in her own time and from home to some fellow church members that the school has got hold of and is now under the threat of dismissal ( see the Daily Telegraph here for full details ).
Remember the Stasi Labour government has just set up the General Teaching Council that is busy trying to prevent teachers discussing their beliefs and to promote the state religion of "equality and diversity".
At the time that Labour is falling over itself to give in to threats of violence by militant Islam, it is setting the state on Christians.
Perhaps the Church of England's synod should have been discussing if any of its clergy should be allowed to be members of the Labour party ?
Whilst everyone was looking the other way the government has vastly expanded its powers to monitor its citizens electronic communications.
The usual Labour half truths about the powers only being used for serious crime and when its proportionate to do so are used. We all know these reassurances don't add up to a hill of beans.
The capability to do this would be very useful for cracking down on descent in a state of emergency situation. Given that Labour has just over a year left are they planning one ?
Will those who surf, say the B_NP or a anti Western Islamic web site find there fired from their jobs ? This information could provide a very powerful profiling tool.
The problem is that we are building the walls and bars of our own incarceration, if a future government ( or the present one ) decides to act as gaoler.
Hope - its just a general election away.Since the SNP seems to still be gearing up for an independence vote I've been doing a little thinking.
With the devolved assemblies its been a fairly logical choice about who votes in their elections, those people who live in the geographical locations to be administered, easy.
But what of a referendum on Scottish Independence ?
An independent Scotland would have direct affect on the nationality of more than the people who live there.
My wife is Scottish, but she lives in Surrey. Should she get a vote ? I would argue yes, she's as Scottish as Alex Salmond is, and has probably spent less time in England than he has.
I've heard various estimates of the number of Scots in England, but somewhere between 2 and 5 million must be about right. They would all be eligible for Scottish nationality and could lose British nationality - so logically they must be allowed a vote.
Even worse - there will be many UK citizens married to Scots, who could also take up Scots nationality and should perhaps also vote. Though Alex I could be persuaded to reduce my tax bill by granting you your "Freedom(TM Mel Gibson)".
My guess is that this approach kills Scots Independence stone dead.
What's odd is that the Unionists parties don't pursue it, or perhaps some of them are not as opposed to breaking up the Union as they claim ?
The good news is (as my son is apt to say when try to put top spin on some less than good news) Stephanie Flanders is back from maternity leave.
Now whilst she seems to me to subscribe to the standard issue left wing BBC world view, indeed her question to David Cameron on that infamous Newsnight interview gives evidence for that as does her CV (which she doesn't try to hide ), this doesn't get in the way of thoughtful and knoweldgeable commentary and trying to introduce to the rest of us some of the deeper issues of what's going on.
I've always got time to listen to her - and now read her blog - as I expect to learn somethign by doing so.
Thats not always the case elsewhere on the BBC. ( And certainly not in the newly dumbed down Panaorama programs).
Now that multi-culturalism is a busted flush for the left and race relations industry, they have a new ploy. Diversity.
You can have a lack of respect for Diversity and fail to support Diversity and lose your job. Say the wrong thing in a supposed private conversation and you can be fired. ( It has become the new blasphemy to say anything that the religion of diversity deems correct - this week ).
Diversity means that moral practices you may not be happy about will be promoted to your children as young as 5, soon without your consent. Indeed fail to support Diversity and you may never see your children ( or Grand children ) again. You certainly won't be allowed to adopt or foster children if you refuse the new state religion ( unless you're a Muslim because Diversity works for Muslims, but not Christians - for reasons that are all about marginal constituencies and voting intentions ).
Secretive organisations (you know who I mean) try to promote diversity, as a mechanism to hide the distortions they create and create clientism to their particular political view point.
Diversity allows those who control power to over ride things like democratic choice ( see the 'A' list in the Conservative party and others ). Diversity means you can't chose who you want as your candidate for an election, those priests and priestesses of Diversity must choose for you.
Diversity, as a campaign issue, has become the enemy of democracy.
Diversity demands the sacrifice of culture, fairness, opportunity for all, religious belief, and freedom.
The last movement to demand those things was Communism. Oddly the same sorts of people support both.
If you live in Woking then you need to be aware that the council has cancelled this weeks refuse collection and has made arrangements for next week detailed at their web site here.
Can't say I'm that impressed. Even if they couldn't cover everywhere they could still have tried to get round some areas.
The public sector is not having a good week.
Did Labour repeal all the trade union laws and I didn't notice ?
It certainly looks like the strike is organised. It certainly looks like secondary strikes are in action. And didn't I just hear on the radio about a mass meeting with a show of hands rejecting and offer from the company - so no secret ballots there then ( that also looks illegal ).
Just what is going on ?
Okay I ready to get egg on my face if I have missed Labour paying of their Union masters by quietly ditching the reforms of the 80s, I'd just like to know where we stand.
Yesterday I took some time of work to walk into town to pick up a package from the central sorting Royal Mail Office. ( Interestingly they managed to deliver two other packages that day, by using the common sense "safe place", but this package was obviously in a different delivery ).
The pavements here in Woking are ice, as are many of the roads. However I made it in, passing a post man with his bicycle on the way.
What greeted me at the sorting office ? Closed because of weather. So I took a few photos to show how the people who don't get paid unless they work managed to function.
The Woking central sorting office is next to the Railway Station and in the middle of town. Most other businesses functioned. ( The photo's below are taken just across the road from the closed Royal Mail office).
Normally I have the highest respect for Royal Mail, especially Woking's excellent postmen/women. They do a good job with a high degree of accuracy almost all the time.
But yesterday Royal Mail let the side down.
Click on pictures to enlarge
Now I wonder what Warmist scare story the BBC can cook up to take our mind off this ?
Good question. Why aren't we hearing any more of this from our politicians ?
Now my apologies to those in parts of the world where this is normal - but in England we like to get all worked up about the sort of snow fall you have every day.
For everyone else - wow ... this is by far the most snow I've seen since living in Surrey.
The kids have just heard the news that School is closed and now their joy is complete !
I'm just wondering if the Ocado delivery is going to make it ? Frankly I wouldn't blame them if they gave up on the day.
After a coffee or two it will be snow man time !
PS If your reading this in Woking - a number of schools have been closed. Might be worth phoning through before frog marching offspring to the school gate.
Updates: 25cm of snow on a garden table and of course the Shed !
Enjoy your snow day if you can !
The kids have loved it - but not quite the right sort of snow for Snowmen yet ....
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