PM's big plans...New coastal footpath ?!?

Hurrah...now we will all be able to take a nice long stroll around the island we can no longer afford to live on...

China's earthquake tragedy...

As the death toll keeps rising as more towns and villages are found to have been devasted, I hope the chinese authorities will start to accept more outside help, especially from teams ofering search and rescue support with sniffer dogs. At this stage the priority is not in recriminations but must be in locating and rescuing any survivors and, as with the Burmese cyclone, no country should have to cope alone in the face of such disaster beacause these tragedies are beyond political control and reach out to the wider humanity in all of us.

Myanmar/Burma Cyclone appeals - immediate humanitarian relief needed.

I hope the Burmese government immediately allows non-political humanitarian disaster relief agencies over it's borders to help with securing clean water, emergency food rations and medical aid to the flooded delta area. This immediate action would help to save lives, prevent outbreaks of devasting disease such as dysentry and typhoid and allow the government to continue to coordinate the huge amount of work that will be needed to start rebuilding the country's infrastructure.


http://www.worldvision.org.uk/

http://www.samaritanspurse.uk.com/donations/donate-step-1.asp

Voting and Beltane...

Tomorrow is May day, not the public holiday but Beltane. Out and about today and I couldn't help noticing all the new green leaves on the trees, the bank of cowslips bursting into flower and the swirling petals of pink blossom, dislodged by the rain, a change in the air with the promise of summer soon.
Let's hope voting tomorrow brings a change too.

(Someone pointed out that I write my posts in the small hours of the morning - in fact, they are written during the day - it's the clock that's wrong, I'll try and change it!)

Grand Designs live week..

Building an ecological, energy saving house in a week? - what a great idea, starts on Sunday on Channel four for a week.

'Help for poor later' ????

How much later? When 5.3 million of the lowest paid have been pushed closer to declaring bancruptcy or voluntary insolvency because, as we head into credit crunch around the world because banks etc have been selling credit(most of it unregulated from the amount of wildly ridiculous offers of instant credit I get in the junk mail!)without looking at the consequences, 'New Labour' is going to maybe help out at some unspecified time... maybe, if we they can be bothered... meanwhile nothing is done to end the disparate charging of power companies to this sector of the population as well or the fact that house values have risen to the point of pure greed...if I am having a bit of a rant here and it's getting incoherent well, tough, I'm angry! These are my angry eyes!
If this is Labour's plan to head off a recession then quite frankly, God help us. This sector of society can not support the middle-aged, middle-class sector and if this budge was seen as some kind of vote-winning exercise, because that five point three million votes won't count, then I hope it backfires because it makes me sick to the stomach.
In fact, I'm so angry I'm going to stop. There is something deeply wrong with this govenment's moral compass if it honestly believes the 10p rate is justifiable, this isn't a plan for a thriving society..

Hoop Hoop Hooray...

Hula hoops have taken out all the additives, preservatives and MSG from their potato hoops..yummy!

Link to the 'Terminal Five' song on You Tube...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqeGS9kPCWo