Cliff Richard is 70!
And it would appear he’s still performing and getting a reasonable review in the Daily Telegraph. They gave him four stars.
He was one of the few pop idols of the 1950s and 1960s, that I never saw live. But I did see Adam Faith, Joe Brown, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and many others.
Liverpool on the Brink
Of what I’m not sure! But it looks like now that the Texas Legal System has got involved, that things will get more uncertain for the club.
I can’t see what a Texas Court has got to do with a deal done in the UK involving a British Bank, two individuals and an English football club. On the other hand I can understand why RBS don’t want to go against the US Courts, as there have been some rather one-sided results in the past, like the NatWest Three.
Should We Have A Graduate Tax?
There have been various discussions about bringing in a Graduate Tax, but it would appear according to this report, that Vince Cable would not be in favour of such a tax.
It is a difficult problem, as if you make taxes on high-flying graduates or their loan interest onerous, then they will leave the country and not pay. As we live in an increasingly mobile society, I suspect that thirty years on we’ll start to have problems collecting the smaller student loans that have already been taken out. Remember that a lot of middle-class parents have funded their kids through University in the last few years, so the pressure on the system is not as great as it might be!
The Poor Chilean Miners
It would appear that it could be over soon for the poor miners trapped in Chile.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t bare to read or watch anything about their plight. It’s not that I wish them any harm, but being trapped like that would make me go completely mad!
Pamela Puts on a Show
I watched Strictly Come Dancing and I was very impressed with the performance of Pamela Stephenson, who got the highest total score from the judges.
So my bet of £4 on Pamela to win is still running.
Adnams Doesn’t Put the Gas in the Beer
When virtually everybody thinks of real ale, they think of Adnams, brewed on the Suffolk coast at Southwold.
When I was starting to drink, they had just thirteen pubs, but they did supply a good part of the club trade in Suffolk. Now their beer is found all over London and the South East, and I’ve even seen it as far north as Newcastle and Edinburgh.
Not bad for a small family company, albeit one that makes a quality product beloved of beer connoisseurs everywhere. But their proven route to success now seems to be being followed by Aspall, the cider maker.
Adnams now have a new venture, called Adnams Bio Energy, which on the face of it is as far from brewing as you can get. They are diversifying into the production of biogas from brewery and food waste. The latter comes mainly from Waitrose.
The scale is only small at present, but it would seem that properly developed it could be a valuable addition to our energy resources. National Grid have said that by 2020 about 15% of domestic gas could be produced in similar ways to that at Adnams Bio Energy.
The Boners Conkers Notice
I just had to go and see the notice in the Abbey Gardens in Bury St. Edmunds.
The Infamous Conkers Notice
Everybody was eitherlaughing at the notice or photographing it!
Be Difficult and Stupid and You Get a Peerage!
The Times today is thinking that the leader of the awkward squad and Ed Milliband’s biggest financial backer is in line for a peerage.
So do your best to make life miserable for millions of people and get a reward! The fact that it is being discussed shows that Ed Millimind must have really thought the thing through!
It just shows that the remains of Nulabor don’t have the qualifications to run a whelk stall on Hastings Pier, which last time I saw pictures of it, was in a better state than the Labour Party.
Milliband’s Poisoned Chalice
The elections for the Shadow Cabinet have meant that both Yvett Cooper and her husband, Ed Balls, are both up for plum jobs.
If I were Ed Milliband, I’d have hoped that one wouldn’t have got elected, as there is nothing worse, than to have husband and wife in the same meeting arguing from different sides. Say you decide what should be done and agree it with the husband, as it’s his brief. But if the wife disagrees, she’ll use all her feminine charms to change her husband’s mind and you have to go through it all again. It would also work the other way round, if you’d agreed it with the wife and the husband reasserted his male instincts.
There are endless scenarios and you can understand why some companies don’t like employees to have relationships stronger than friendships! I also speak from personal experience, which probably meant that one of my projects wasn’t as good as it should have been!
A Load of Old Conkers
I thought that we’d seen the death of Health and Safety warnings over conkers. But we haven’t according to this story.
Surely, St. Edmundsbury Council have been things to do, with my Council Tax.
The Anonymous Widower 