Wednesday 23 June 2010

The View from the Hill on Wednesday 23rd June

Happy Anniversary to Mrs B and myself - 26 years of married life and she still can't get me to do the ironing.

Her expectations have lessened and she doesn't even ask me to iron the handkerchiefs anymore - and I was pretty good at ironing square things like hankies and tea towels.

The budget went off quite well I thought, Mrs B gets a pay freeze and we will pay more in VAT in the new year but the increase in the personal allowance will off-set that a little. I'm quite happy to join George Osbourne in this crusade to reduce the deficit and to crush the disabled and the poor, it can only mean one thing, less of them will be able to shop in Tesco freeing up valuable space for the middle class shoppers slumming it there, as they can't afford Waitrose anymore.

But seriously, people will have to think about budgeting and perhaps cut down on the drugs and alcohol and cigarettes and buy their children a vegetable instead.

But seriously, seriously, we will all have to tighten our belts and make do and mend - it's that blitz spirit that the English are so well known for - when we are down, the Churchillian aspect of our nature surfaces and as the Frog Chorus put it so well, we all stand together! Oh Yes!

This is how we will respond, this is what we will do, England expects...to be on the plane home at about 6pm tonight.

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England expects that every man will do his duty

Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Tuesday 22 June 2010

The View from the Hill on Tuesday 22nd June

Budget, budget, budget....

Football, football, football...

Budget, budget, budget....

Football, football, football...

Budget, BP, budget...

Football, Football, Christine Bleakley...

BP, budget, budget

Football, foxes, football...

Budget, budget, and now the news where you are....

Hello I'm Anne Davies and this is Dominic Heale and here is the news for the East Midlands...first a report about how the owner of a BP garage in Leicester asked Christine Bleakley about how footballers will cope with the cuts made during the budget.

(SCREAM).

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

DH Lawrence

Sunday 20 June 2010

The View from the Hill on Sunday 20th June

I really don't feel like blogging today - the house is quiet, too quiet and I have nothing of value to say.

I know it never stopped me before - but today it...


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...feels like a house with all the children gone.

Star Trek III