Dustmen

Getting woken up to this

OK, I do not have anything against refuse collectors. They work differently from county to county, some are fortnightly some are weekly.

The ‘green bins’ here are fortnightly and not emptied until 1pm sometimes much later! The bottles on the other hand are every 4 weeks! By the time they come each month the bottles are over flowing! But why the fuck do they come so early to empty them?

Why cant they come and empty the other stuff first? It don’t make as much noise!  I shot out of bed at 7:15am to the almighty racket of the bottles being emptied into the truck, realising mine were not out at the road side yet as the month before they come at 8:30am. So, I ran out with the bottles as quick as lightening just to see the truck rounding the corner! Now I have to drive to the bottle bank and use my petrol to empty them myself! So, I have written a little reminder to myself…..“work out on the calender when they are next back…and put the bottles out the night before! and hope that they dont come so unexpectedly” and early next time!

Cant kids be kids anymore

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Conkers replaced by Iphones

I have to write a quick rant about the fact that schools seem to be going way over the top with health and safety fears by banning conkers (FEARS OF NUT ALLERGIES?), leapfrog and even marbles in the school playgrounds!  What about the handstands against the walls? I scraped my hand once doing that and had to see the school nurse! I loved playing marbles and conkers etc…

Who are these so called researchers? They all must sit around discussing how our children should behave and play, they forget that life in the beginning is all a learning curve.

OK, just cover them all in bubble wrap and roll them around the grounds for a while during their breaks…. or maybe not, they could be allergic to bubbles or get motion sickness. So heaven forbid if one eats a conker!

Cant kids be kids anymore?

The couch potato kids

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Again, I find myself having a little ‘mini-rant’.  In the news today, yet again a ‘pick on the parents’ day!

This time, how too many children who are couch potatoes “They found on average, children spent 1.9 hours per day watching TV or playing on their computer and only 36 minutes doing physical activity.“ according to the ‘survey’. Which leads to heart problems and high blood pressure!

Once there was more than three channels on TV for me I was watching TV far more often as a child… now there are hundreds if you have satellite or cable TV. If I remember rightly, I was spending double the 1.9hrs they have quoted!  And for the record, I was not an over weight child!

Sorry, not in service!

I have come to wonder why in this so called computer age is it, that because most things are done on the pc in the comfort of your warm home, the in-store  old fashioned way of buying things really have become a thing of a unhappy time. Its in your face to BUY BUY BUY! Trying to rip us off at every opportunity.

However, the sloppy service for the in-store customer is non-existent , you’ll be lucky if you have a person come up to you and say good morning  etc.. They just stand there waiting  to pounce  like a cat on a dirty mouse to be toyed with. With their smug faces trying to fob you off with insurance that cost half as much as the item. Then you have to wait weeks for the damn thing to be delivered! Furniture 10 weeks! Kitchen appliances 2 weeks if your lucky. Then when you get them they fail to work or live up to the ‘shop window’ standards, forget trying to get a human being on the phone to take care of you problems.

Benefit fraud!

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I know times are hard, but yet again I read the usual story of someone who has easily fooled the government into thinking they deserve a hand out each year to help their family who are supposedly disabled. These people make me sick. They obviously have a major problem mentally, this woman has managed to fool the stupid government into thinking she has 4 kids all with epilepsy and learning disabilities when only one of them in fact had it, also a husband with gout . She managed to get £120,000. I’m sure I can hear the feint sound of “good on her” from some moron who has the same mentality! How come they didn’t realise she was already convicted for benefit fraud in 2000?- *Investigators discovered that she had been convicted for family credit and income support fraud in 2000 when she was given a seven-year suspended sentence for four fraud offences and 127 others.

So, I’ve come to think that when there is a new application from a fraudster, to milk all the hand-outs possible, the DW&P don’t seem to act on scrutinising the evidence of the said disabilities, how about doctors/hospital evidence?  Easy money! I quote from the on-form declaration-  “I understand that the Department for Work and Pensions may use the information which it has now or may get in the future to decide whether I am entitled to: • the benefit I am claiming • any other benefit I have claimed • any other benefit I may claim in the future.” This is my claim for Disability Living Allowance.  -sign here-

MAY use the information? Hmmm USE IT? For what, wipe their ass on? Well these people are milking the government and we are paying it all back in one way or another. Drives me crazy! With all the disability allowance she received, you would think she could have got her teeth done for free on the NHS!  The government really are slow and need to pull thier fingers out of their A-holes and start to wake people up at the DWP!