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Monday Morning
Oct. 13th, 2008 09:13 amSo, after a few delays, I've got my flexible sigmoidoscopy this afternoon.
Been a trifle stressed at home as some of the new shelves have been slightly misaligned: so there are still hundreds of books in boxes. The carpenter will come to fix the shelves today. (Fingers crossed.) SWMBO is naturally exceptionally tidy, and I must admit I've noticed the levels of discontent rising, but she reassures me that it's not a sacking offence. Three weeks of untidiness and semi-squalor is slightly more than a girl like her can put up with. Added to which the present financial crisis has had a massive and detrimental effect on her savings and pension.
Some time ago I mentioned that Gordon Brown only seemed to be any good when he's up against it*....well, it's still in the balance, but he does rather seem to have provided a plan (along with the Chancellor and treasury, and various other clever economist types) to extricate ourselves from the bankers mess. 'This is the first financial crisis of the global age', said Brown. And it needs a global response.
But it still doesn't change the facts that these bankers have beggared our children to pay for their bonuses. As have, to a certain extent, the rest of us who have lived on credit, and spent far more than we can afford.
The inherent Tory desire to limit regulation looks shot to bits too. Off balance debt looks to be a slight of hand similar to 'Find the Lady'. Awarding bonuses for such slight of hand does seem ever-so-slightly criminal.
Oh well, it'll get fixed; we'll all be poorer; and global capitalism will get resuscitated until next time.
*http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/133103.html
Been a trifle stressed at home as some of the new shelves have been slightly misaligned: so there are still hundreds of books in boxes. The carpenter will come to fix the shelves today. (Fingers crossed.) SWMBO is naturally exceptionally tidy, and I must admit I've noticed the levels of discontent rising, but she reassures me that it's not a sacking offence. Three weeks of untidiness and semi-squalor is slightly more than a girl like her can put up with. Added to which the present financial crisis has had a massive and detrimental effect on her savings and pension.
Some time ago I mentioned that Gordon Brown only seemed to be any good when he's up against it*....well, it's still in the balance, but he does rather seem to have provided a plan (along with the Chancellor and treasury, and various other clever economist types) to extricate ourselves from the bankers mess. 'This is the first financial crisis of the global age', said Brown. And it needs a global response.
But it still doesn't change the facts that these bankers have beggared our children to pay for their bonuses. As have, to a certain extent, the rest of us who have lived on credit, and spent far more than we can afford.
The inherent Tory desire to limit regulation looks shot to bits too. Off balance debt looks to be a slight of hand similar to 'Find the Lady'. Awarding bonuses for such slight of hand does seem ever-so-slightly criminal.
Oh well, it'll get fixed; we'll all be poorer; and global capitalism will get resuscitated until next time.
*http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/133103.html
