Having not seen Steph for some months we arranged on Saturday to meet up for lunch at Bluewater on Saturday. I often forget exactly how close Bluewater is to my home. I think the clock Ometer read about 18 miles and I got there in under thirty minutes.
We sat outside in the glorious sunshine and enjoyed some bubbles and a lovely long lunch before spending the rest of the afternoon slowly wandering around the mall to catch up. As always it was lovely to see Steph again.
Saturday night, it was about 7PM before I even got home so chilled on the couch for a few hours taking a shower and heading off to XXL for a few hours. Sometimes I have that feeling where I just want to stay on the couch most of the weekend but other weekends I feel I am sick of staying in and have to go out. The club was far less busy than it was last weekend but about 20 minutes after I arrived I ran into Gavin & Martin. Not seen either of them in over a year and spent the rest of the night hanging out with them. Both are really sweet men and had a great night till about 3AM. Knowing that Dusan was working early on Sunday and would be home by then I made my way home before it was too late.
Sunday Dusan kissed me goodbye at 8AM and headed off to work. Without an alarm set I fell straight back to sleep and was quite surprised when I finally woke and the clock radio read that it was already 2PM. Too late to go out and definitely too late to make my way all the way into town to the gym. Instead decided to cook a nice meal and clean the appartment a bit.
Meanwhile, is anyone else getting fed up with watching the news. Does Gordon Brown bug anyone else as much as he seems to bug me. Everytime I see his mutt on television I am reminded of a British Bulldog crossed with an English Bully. He doesn't seem to have a clue as to what the people think and feel. They seem so grossly out of touch with real life and the latest scandle now the U-Turn over UK IRA bombing victims not being allowed to pursue Libya for compensation as it "would not be in Britains best interest". I have to point out to Mr Brown that nothing seems to be in the interest of the people of Britain. How about the toll at Dartford that was supposed to be free once the cost of the QE II bridge was completed. Yet instead of being free increased in price 50% recently. Or the 3 pence per litre increase his incompetent government has added to petrol hiking the cost of living even higher.
Steph and I discussed a lot of things on Saturday but near the top of the agenda was the fact that we both saw no future in Britain long term. When the government seems to be out of touch and care more about being Politically Correct than the cares or rights of the people they are supposed to serve while taxing us to death. I realised long ago that no matter what you earn in this country you will always work to feed your mouth, no matter what you earn. It all goes on taxes and cost of living in what has become ever more rip off Britain.
Meanwhile - Midland London Trains failed yesterday to run a train service. Over 1200 trains were cancelled all over the country as the "new contract" stated that working Sunday is no longer compulsory and is on a voluntary basis. Apparantly not 1 driver wanted to volunteer so no trains ran. They should snatch back their francise and stop them from running the service. Other train providers have hiked their fares 50% over the weekend for off peak services. Tell me exactly how having francises works in the peoples interest. How can one say I wont take London Midland when they are the only services between certain areas. How are we supposed to have decent services for a fair price when each of these francises has to pay the government Billions of Pounds in liscense fees for a service that should be state provided and subsidised in order to encourage people off the roads and onto public transport. Makes me realise more and more this country is a joke.
One bit of good news is that the weather looks like it will at least be nice this week.
Till next time - keep well and Happy Labour Day.
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