My Life

Saturday

14th February

Still bitterly cold in Scotland and so I am staying bed! my new terrabyte Hard Drive arrived yesterday and I have passed morning moving about 20 movie on to it. Now with 1,000 gig of free storage I can download concert footage as well as more movies to watch on my 42 inch TV !!

Ain't technology wonderful!

In the new a 13 year old boy has fathered a kid with a 15 year old girl!  The newpapers are killing each other to get an exclusive and the Sun has won the race. Why? Let them stew in it. They will make a mint out of it!  

It is illegal to have intercourse under age so why are they not locked up or charged with that offence? People are not allowed to benefit from the procedes of a crime No doubt,any "income" will be put in a trust. 

The same racket "pays" amateur atheletes. They are amateurs, some claiming benefit, but their appearance money goes into an off shore trust to be collected when they "retire." Well I suppose that you can't eat a medal unless it is chocolate!!

The Banks ar in more trouble Let them go bust!  If Fred & Doris open a shop and a supermarket opens up down the road they go bust. Why should a bank be any different??

The conspiracy theorists have found out that a woman who, sadly, died in the Buffalo plane crash was a 9/11 widow who continually attacked the Government view that Al Khaki did it.

The only khaki involved in 9/11 was the khaki worn by the military spooks involved. How can anyone believe that a guy sitting in a cave, with no electricity, could have planned 9/11 ???

Did he run his Cray mega computer by a team of muppets peddling a bike generator? It would need a mega Cray to run the airline programmes, alone.

Oh well back to the movies!

byeeeeee     

  

My Life

Tuesday/Wed/Thur./Fri  

10th to 13th

Had a bad few days. A real fever and a lot of joint pain so my thought are a bit jumbled up.

That Dutch guy Wilder got asked to leave Britain. Another wonderful case of not being able to afford the advertising costs. The film showed in the House of Lord anyway and without all the publicity it would have been a non event. Like many others having watched the news of him landing and leaving I found and watched the film on the Internet. I had never heard of it prior to the media scrum.  The power of free advertising !!!!   The media fall for it every time.

The guy ha a point. Why not get everything out in the open and discuss and decide policy after fair and balanced debate. What is wrong with that hypothesis??

A like some bits of Muslim law and some I think are despicable. But I am not a Muslim. If you join the club then you obey the rules!  Simple.

However, I will not have anyone telling me if ,who or how I worship.  If  I wish to enquire about how a person or group worship then I will either ask, politely, or research on my own. Currently, I am reading the Koran, which is a long book.  Having watched Wilder's film I am not going to just agree or disagree without looking at both sides.  Sheep follow the Shepherd,

An arsonist has been arrested in Australia and a plane has hit a house in New York. In Wales two small planes had a midair collision in loads of empty sky! The student pilots were cousins. Were the Instructors "out to lunch?"    

I run a ship plotter programme on my computer. Last week I mentioned that tankers and vehicle carriers were "parked" at Flotta and Isle Of Wright. Well there are more at Humberside and Teeside in U.K.

At Finnart in Scotland, there is a tanker unloading every other day for pumping to Grangemouth Refinery. It is the biggest joke in the petrol garage industry that almot all of the petrol in Scotland comes from B.P. at Grangemouth.  Esso have storage tanks at Dumbarton and a little is delivered into South Ayrshire and Dumfrieshire by road tanker from England but all the rest comes from Grangemouth.

Another good one. Irn Bru, the soft drink.  Most of it is made in the North of England and brought to Glasgow in unmarked road tankers to be bottled. Well the Grant money in the North East of England was so tempting!! A little is still manufactured in Scotland, at the original plant, but it amounts to a small percentage of the total output. 

Oh well the fever broke last night and I am coming together a bit this morning. Back to my big 42 inch TV.

Byeeeeee

My Life

Monday 9th. February.

Well another Monday! Bob Geldorf got it right when he wrote the numer 1 hit "I don't like Monday."

It really cn be a boring day and mine are nine time out of ten. The Oz fire problem now look like deliberate fire raizing. Oh really !!!

My local paper reporting about people who made a loa of money claiming benefit to which they were not entitled.  14 people were involved and each, alledgedly,got a five figure amount over a period  of three year. There are 70 people required to appear in court not counting the time involved building the case. Lawyers fees will no doubt, come from legal aid funding.

The total amount  put out raizing the trial will be many time greater than the amount that they alledgedly collected!!! Then, if there are encarserated, it will cost approximately £750 per head per week to keep them there.

Under an old system they would have been interviewed by a Civil Servant and more than likely visited in their home. In order,to save money, (what a joke) a person may now claim via the internet!!  

The Bankers from The Royal Bank of Scotland received a grilling from a House of Commons elect committee live on TV. £20 million of taxpayers money had to be put in to the Bank to bail it out or it would have gone burst!

It appears that they have set aside a billion pounds for annual bonuses for the staff who wrcked the Bank!!!

Ain't finance wonderful???

My ankle is still badly swollen and walking is very difficult and painful. So I am proped up watching my big TV, playing Chess and Mahjong.  "Charlie Wilson's War" is on later and that will pass the evening.

byeeeeeeee

My life

Sunday

I had to get rid of the packing which came with the TV as I was expecting a grocery delivery. I was sore from hobbling to and from the car and hobbling out and in with the packing did not help to much.

My groceries arrived right on time and had to be packed away in the freezer and cupboards. It really is a fabulous system. You pick your items on the computer and book a delivery slot which suits you. You can pay by either Debit or Credit Card as you please.

I am sore and flop onto the bed and crank up the computer to "read" the Sunday papers. All National and International papers are on the web and time passes until tea time. There is a bad fire in Australia with loss of life. This is similar to Los Angeles. Both have fires every year. It is strange that water dropping planes and firemen are available after the fires beigin.  Why don't they drop water on forrests which are dry and suseptible to fire risk before the fires start??  Surely that would make sense!

I bet that the some of the owners of the forrestry sell the land for more housing. A fire is a good way around a lack or refusal of planning permission.

Fire raisers are rarely caught and almost all of these fires are started deliberately. So if they drenched the woodland when it became dry it would reduce the fire probability. The cost of drenching the woodlands prior to a fire starting is surly the same as after a fire begins.

Oh well more pills. 

byeeeeee  

My Life

7th February. (A letter broke)

Awoke about 8.30 and after pill time I check TV list.  "Hunt for Red October" and "Flazh Dance" get the nod. "Arlington Road" and "Zhoot 'em up"  for later on. Checked the freezer and it becoming low on food. Got on the computer and ordered up what I need and arranged delivery for tomorrow afternoon.  What a system!!  No travel. No hassle. No checkout. No carrying burst bags! Heaven.

Noticed Electric and Gaz price coming down and petrol well down. Getting back to normal I don't think!  Feel good factor yet again.  profiteering continues!

Decided the car needed a run.  A lovely crisp sunny morning beckoned and off I went. Road very quiet and I opened the car up. Cruising 80 mph  touching 90 mph. I think! The Sun in my eyes!!

Might have been 60/70.  People going much faster. Petrol drop in price could be why but I doubt it. The German Green Party got a law through their Reichstag limiting speed to 155. If a car goes fast then people want to try it! I would limit all to 100mph and raise the motorway limit to 80mph.

Back for lunch deciding on a Chinese take away and ready for Red October.    

Jade Goody big in the papers and TV.  Making money for her kids by telling all about her illness.

Why not, I would too. Clarkzone still getting mileage and now the apology getting more miles.

Another million into the off zhore bank account no doubt.  It won't go to donkey welfare that he keeps banging on about!!

I check my zhip plotter programme on the computer which I watch many times a day.  There are four oil tankers, anchored, at Flotta in Orkney. Finnart haz been receiving many crude oil tankers which unload in Loch Long. The crude then goes to Grangemouth Refinery.

At the other end of Britain, in and around the Zolent there are 5/6 tankers at anchor. In addition, there are two vehicle carriers which Cross the channel bring cars to and from Britain.

Why did Ford and Vauxhall put up there price of a car, I wonder? If the car moving boats are not moving them how do they expect a higher unit price?

My Ford came from Belgium on a boat and then it was transported to Alba. It had 23 mile on the clock when I got it.  How do they make money with all the additional moving costs I wonder?

Economies of scale only work if they are selling.

Oh well  Byeee for now

My Life

February 6th.

Got an extra hour of sleep and awoke 08.30.  Have you noticed that when you are asleep the body feels no pain?  Why not give sleeping pills instead of pain killers??  My pain killers are very strong and I am now clinically addicted to them.

If I am little or no pain while lying in a comfortable position and feeling nice and cozy and warm there comes a point where I MUST taken the damn things! I go into withdrawal which really ain't a very nice experience.

It begins with a warm sweat and tremors. It builds up to twitches and tremors and becoming very warm. Then comes the nausea. If I let it go any further vomiting and diarrhoea begin.In addition to the sweating which ,at that stage, can be hot and cold.the whole experience being very unpleasant. The Doctors give you these pills to help ??

I am told that junkies on Smack and Heroin have the exact same problem if they cannot get a fix.

 Oh well, back to the routine. I check my e.mail and pick my viewing plan for the day. I note that there are good films on the Sky system which I have already watched but I want to see them again on the big screen.

I pick X-Files  for the morning and Rob Roy for after lunch. The scenery filming in Rob Roy really great and I enjoy them both. This new 42 inch TV haz been a great buy.

After a light lunch and pepperoni pizza for tea I settle down to watch TV.  Of course, during the time watching TV I am downloading movies onto the computer! I find a programme that I missed and download it via BBC I-Player to watch at a later date.

Being indoors a big part of my life now I really do not bother that I am not out and about.  The international,national and local newspapers are all on the Web. Every country in the world haz newspapers and TV Channels.  The web haz blogger and journalists giving the alternative and offbeat news and time pazzez quickly.

I play Mahjong and Chess against the computer and a computer scan every day  break it all up.

I find it funny that England having had a little snow becomes a national disaster but Alba haz had more Winter snow each year and rated only an odd mention.

Jeremy Clarkzone, the motor mouth of the BBC car programme Top Gear insulted the Brits Prime Minister while in Australia. Why do the media continually fall for this self advertising style?I can remember a record which was banned by the BBC entitled "Je taime." It went to Number 1 in the chart. A mediocre record which made them all a packet of money !  "Relax" followed the genre and went to number 1 too.

Bob Geldof ,many, many times used the method of outrageous comment to gain publicity. You would pay millions of pounds to get a front page advert in one newspaper never mind world wide front page exposure. 

Jonathan Rozzer, Carol Thather, Mandonna, Pariz Hilton, Ozzy Ozborne, who got a TV zhow for hiz whole family out of alleged wild living, plus many others, have beat their gums, got free advertising, grovellingly apologized and increased their income!!

Clarkzone being the latest, apologized and the Top Gear empire will now go very well thank you in Australia!! Why pay for advertising, just beat yer gums.!!  You can see the fellow presenters on Top Gear wince when he beats his gums on that programme. Frankly he ruined it. It was a programme about great car and now iz the Clarkzone zhow with a few cars in it az props !! 

Ignore them all!!!   

You may have noticed that a number of words have a "Z" in them that zhould not be there.

Actually, the letter between "A" and "D" on my keyboard iz stuck and the spell checker don't pick it up!  Hard luck!    

My Life

Thur Feb 5th

Thanks to the wonderful Social Security system in the UK I am "paid" for the rest of my life for being ill and unfit to work. I have arthritis in all major joints. When I worked,normally, I was an Accountant and learned how to "work " money.

I plan my weekly income on a monthly basis.  1 week  pays credit card/catalogues  1 week pays Credit Union and Private Health plan (yes, I go private and the Govt pays it) 1 week pays for Sky and TV licence and home insurance 1 week spare. (petrol for Summer trips)

By having 3/4 catalogues going I get all that I need for the home. (Duvet,deep fat fryer,micro,etc)

If you pay them they gradually increase your buying limit. I now have £4,000 buying capacity!

These are totally unsecured and they rely on me paying them.  I recently got a 42inch mega LCD TV from one of them.

In the past, I have got a recordable DVD, C.D. Player,Walkman,Record player  which connect to walkman. I have a big deep freeze (catalogue)and get my grocery order delivered. 

I order the food that I need via the computer(catalogue) and they pick it and deliver it!! I pay by either Credit Card or Debit Card.  By buying in bulk I gain cheaper unit price.

Example: I like Twix bar. Buy 1 and you get 2 fingers.  I buy pack of 27 fingers and the finger price greatly reduced.

For fun I am going to blog my daily/weekly life until I get bored. I will educate you how to make money "work" for you and it ain't even your money if you are on benefit!!

Oh, did I mention that I get a brand new car every three year too. Currently I have a Ford Focus 1.8  which doze 150 mph.p It iz repaired/serviced/insured/no road tax.  all paid from benefit.  

I have Internet banking and can pay the catalogues via it.  Health and Credit Union are via Direct Debit. I don't have to go queue in a bank in all weather. Did you know a Post Office can give you money from your Debit Card or you can stand in the rain at an ATM ?

I have the Sky system too which give you a load of channels to watch on my big TV. Again, Direct Debit.  I had the movie channels but never got round to watching them. The other channels have enough. By canceling movies recently, I will have £20 spare which will pay one third of the cost of my new TV. The other £40 a month will come from the spare week and from reduced catalogue payments when I pay them off. 

By paying regularly, my buying power increases and remember it all unsecured.

A word on Credit Union.  If you save you get high Gross interest4.5% and a loan at 8% 

If you have money in the bank you get interest minus tax. Unless you remember to fill in a claim form every year to reclaim the tax if you do not work you do not get it. The form not advertised and people don't claim.

If you are working and save via Credit Union you are legally bound to declare the Gross interestand pay ta on it.  Workers get out of the bank and into Credit Union.

If you have money lying in a bank get it into Premium Bonds.  At present, with low interest rates a better way, put £1,000/£500 into a Term Bond and use that for collateral to borrow £1,000/£500  to buy Premium Bonds. The higher interest on the Term Bond offset against loan interest making the "cost" of the loan very low. You then have £1,000/£500 in high interest and a £1,000/£500 in Premium Bonds.

If you win £250 that equal to 25%/50% interest!!  If you don't win you have the £1,000/£500 anyway. Buy £100 blocks then you can get £200 if you need it and keep the £800/£300 in.  If you buy a £1000/£500 block you have to cazh it all.

Anyway, back to today.

I awake 0730hr and put on the big TV.  Watch folk falling about going to work!  Check my E.mail. Check news sites and then alternative news sites to get a balance. Take the pills and prop up the pillows. Check Tv listings to plan viewing for today. Set up the auto timer/changer for the programmes I want to see.

Set the computer to download a few movies from Pirate bay.org. Apparently, this   is  illegal. But it comes under Civil Law not Criminal Law and the movies are good!! You cannot go to jail for it!!I have ordered a cable in order to play these  through my big TV .. It can be a computer monitor too.  Great for your photos,video,etc. I have Sky movie for a further 10 days until it cancels and I Set "Hitman" for 1000hr.  Well that plans the morning.

Light lunch. Tonight will be Haddock French Fries, croquettes, peas and baby carrots followed by chocolate ice cream. By buying freezer  I get fizh (2 bits) about £1.30   3.63kg fries for £1.60  croquettes 1kg bag (have 2 per meal,loads) £1 Ice cream £2 a litre. Meal about £2

I buy electricity via a pay card and therefore get NO BILL.  I buy propane Gaz for heating and get NO GAZ BILL.  It goes on and off when I want it!  mainly I lie in bed in which I have 2 duvets. This like a sleeping bag. The Duvet retain heat from electric blanket. 

I will give my living tips throughout the following days blog when they come to me.  By the way I do not smoke and like a beer now and again which I buy at 20 bottle for £6.  Why pay £2.5 for a pint!!!

Clothes,household items,bedding and electrical goods all come via catalogue buying and my limits go up all the time with a good payment history.  I have £4,000  buying power which I don't need for anything !!!  No saving up for a wanted item !

If you have a credit card then pay the catalogue via the credit card and NOT by cazh!!  A £20 payment via Credit card become £2/£3  on a credit card bill.  Pay more if you can but if you cannot get the £20 for the payment then you REDUCE that payment to a couple of quid but keep your payment history up to date.  I cannot stress this enough.

KEEP up the payments and they give you more buying power.  Buy monthly food via credit card and pay Credit Card a few quid now and again via Internet banking when you have it NOT when they want it!! Break down your credit card bill by paying something every week via Internet banking. By buying food in bulk with a credit card you will have more money available each week which you have not spent on weekly food buying.  Some, pay to credit card and some to catalogue all via Internet banking.  Pay them when you GOT money NOT when they want it!!!

Oh well, "Hitman" a good movie and am following it with "National Treasure." I am propped up between 2 duvets wearing a thermal vest. The temperature 32f  outside but I have no heating on. I am heating my immediate area only with the electric blanket.  A quick light lunch beckons.  I will dive into the freezer and put a meat pie in the micro to de frost it. When it ping I put it under the grill to heat it. Open tin of beans and put them in micro.

When I hear grill and micro ping  serve on a plate and come back to bedroom.  Put gaz heater on.  Eat lunch. Gaz heater off  and return to bed which haz warmed nicely.  More pills and watch TV and/or surf the web. until tea time.

 Why do people heat a whole home which they never go into a lot.  Heat the area that you live in.

Teatime routine az lunch.  Pop in and out of the kitchen wearing comfortable fleece sweatsuit.  Eat and return to bed. Watch TV  take more pills and have a good night sleep.  

Well that waz my morning and plan for later in my day. How waz your day??  More tomorrow.  byeeeee.