Watched a debate on television about ID cards. Personally I think they are just another scam by the government to extract more money from an already cash strapped population! They say they will “ONLY” cost £100, but I am sure this is an amount which, by the time the cards are issued, will rise to a more realistic cost of £200 or £300.
How are pensioners living on a state pension going to find the extra amount of money for something they don’t want, and it seems the majority of people don’t want? If they are to be compulsory then they should be free. Why do we need them anyway? What can they achieve? I certainly don’t want my personal details recorded on a plastic card. All these details will fall into the wrong hands as so many files and disks have gone missing.
I could smell the rain coming this way, so cut the grass, which takes just over an hour as it’s a big garden. I wanted to get the cuttings into the green bin due to be emptied. I have to say all the bins are terribly heavy and it is a struggle to move them down the path. I have asked for a smaller bin (two years ago!) but so far none have materialised.
As I don’t have much rubbish I tend not to put the bins out every fortnight, but once a month, to save the struggle of wheeling them. Now I hear we may be charged for how much rubbish is in our bin. Does this mean I will be fined because my bin has a month’s rubbish in it?
Went out early this morning to drive a few miles to feed the foal and discovered I had a puncture. Am so glad I bought myself a trolley jack as it makes changing a wheel much easier. They say a bad workman blames his tools, but honestly things are much easier with the right ones. It wasn’t too bad changing the wheel as the sun was shining, not like a couple of weeks ago when I found some mindless vicious idiot has slashed one of my tyres. It was absolutely pouring with rain. I was just tightening up the wheel nuts when my neighbour appeared and said “I hope you weren’t going anywhere nice because your hair’s a mess.”
Living alone you have only yourself to rely on and so you just learn to do as much as you can. When you are young you think you will always be the same. You don’t or can’t know what it is like when you reach the free bus pass stage. Your mind feels the same, you still feel and want to do all the things you used to do, it just takes a bit more out of you.
It is so annoying when younger people think you must be incapable and don’t include you in conversations they think are over your head. With age comes a lot of wisdom. Would be nice if we could start all over again but with the accumulated knowledge already in us. Sometimes I think it would be a good idea if we were born old and got younger!
I would welcome comments from other pensioners telling me how they manage and what things cause them difficulties.
“Your hair’s a mess.”
October 1, 2008Watched a debate on television about ID cards. Personally I think they are just another scam by the government to extract more money from an already cash strapped population! They say they will “ONLY” cost £100, but I am sure this is an amount which, by the time the cards are issued, will rise to a more realistic cost of £200 or £300.
How are pensioners living on a state pension going to find the extra amount of money for something they don’t want, and it seems the majority of people don’t want? If they are to be compulsory then they should be free. Why do we need them anyway? What can they achieve? I certainly don’t want my personal details recorded on a plastic card. All these details will fall into the wrong hands as so many files and disks have gone missing.
I could smell the rain coming this way, so cut the grass, which takes just over an hour as it’s a big garden. I wanted to get the cuttings into the green bin due to be emptied. I have to say all the bins are terribly heavy and it is a struggle to move them down the path. I have asked for a smaller bin (two years ago!) but so far none have materialised.
As I don’t have much rubbish I tend not to put the bins out every fortnight, but once a month, to save the struggle of wheeling them. Now I hear we may be charged for how much rubbish is in our bin. Does this mean I will be fined because my bin has a month’s rubbish in it?
Went out early this morning to drive a few miles to feed the foal and discovered I had a puncture. Am so glad I bought myself a trolley jack as it makes changing a wheel much easier. They say a bad workman blames his tools, but honestly things are much easier with the right ones. It wasn’t too bad changing the wheel as the sun was shining, not like a couple of weeks ago when I found some mindless vicious idiot has slashed one of my tyres. It was absolutely pouring with rain. I was just tightening up the wheel nuts when my neighbour appeared and said “I hope you weren’t going anywhere nice because your hair’s a mess.”
Living alone you have only yourself to rely on and so you just learn to do as much as you can. When you are young you think you will always be the same. You don’t or can’t know what it is like when you reach the free bus pass stage. Your mind feels the same, you still feel and want to do all the things you used to do, it just takes a bit more out of you.
It is so annoying when younger people think you must be incapable and don’t include you in conversations they think are over your head. With age comes a lot of wisdom. Would be nice if we could start all over again but with the accumulated knowledge already in us. Sometimes I think it would be a good idea if we were born old and got younger!
I would welcome comments from other pensioners telling me how they manage and what things cause them difficulties.
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