Post Election

This is just my view of the country in the last few weeks. I seem to be harping on abput the EU.

The general election is past and forgotton and we are now in the heat of argument about the Europeon Union referendum to be in or out of the Union. I thought we might have some respite as the promised referendum  in 2017 is still a long way away. But no, Prime Minister Cameron has immediatly jet setted through the main Eupopeon citys seeing the top people on what seems to me to be either a fruitless journey or it is him saying -  look at me and my negotiating skills. He got a lot of set backs for his trouble.

Then he made a bigger blunder by appearing to say that if those in govenment were not with him they were againt him and staying in the Union and they would be pushed out. Later he said the journalists had 'misunderstood' him. They would stay in cabinet and govenment. Now the strange bit to me is that before the election Cameron had said he would try to re- negotiate our standing with the EU and then offer a referendum on the outcome to the public. He didn't say, to my mind, I want us to stay in whatever changes are offered. But now that is what he seems to say. 

Will our being in or out of the EU make any difference to little pensioners like me? I doubt it. I remember voting to go into the Common Market which seemed a good idea, at the time. In 1975 I believe. Only five or six counties in it then but now it is a mega sized union with  countries in different economic states from dirt poor to quite rich. All I can say is I am thankful we didn't go into the single currency of the Euro.

I think everyone is going to be sick to death of hearing about this referendum and wish we could just get on with it. We have had a bit of a rest from it for a few days. 

The EU and me

There is so much history going on I really don't know where to start. History in the sense that it will be available for you to read, such things as our Prime Minester Cameron, is today talking to the leaders of Europe. He is going to try to negotiate new terms for Britain before we are to have a referendum of the 'In or Out' type for being in the Europeopn Union.

From my veiw point it does not make much difference as long as the govenment still pays our pension. Its all we have to live on. Can't say such a disaster could never happen because it has in Greece. But Greece is a mess economically and at this time we are not in such a bad state. And I count us lucky because there are many in this country on hard times. It seems to be single mothers that suffer the most but some families, even though they are working, find life very difficult. And I am personally very glad we never joined the Euro. If they moot that I will vote OUT.

Would we be any better outside of the Europeon Union? I have a very stong feeling that we would be out in the cold trading wise, and much better to be inside. Yet countries seem to be wanting independence and breaking down into smaller and smaller units. Take our own Scotland. It only just voted to remain British. Now towns and areas in England want autonomy. Cornwall, Manchester, Newcastle etc. when all we really need is an English government that sits say, in Birmingham. Then having the same powers as N Ireland, Wales and Scotland we could all be happy to leave such things as Defence, dealing with the EU and international affairs and trade to The Westminster Government.

Well that my view anyway, all done with a better voting system than First Past the Post.

Nothing much in my immediate neighbourhood. Went shopping in the local Sainsbury's Supermarket. With special coupons we managed to knock £10.00 off our bill because of a shopping card called Nectar. £10.00 can buy almost two meals for us. Then this afternoon a watched a video for the second time about water colour painting in an experimental style. Had a go but it didn't look anything like what she did in the video. I must keep trying.

Got to re-find out how to put pictures up here. It won't let me go to my camera roll. Got to use Pisca and haven't done that for years.

History Buffs of the Future

History Buffs of the Future, and readers in the present, greetings again. I realised this blog, and my other Blog, was a good idea if only to give me something to write about. I remind you, people of 2525, this is the view of the world of a very ordinary person, living a retired life in a small town in South West England, UK. Dont expect grand vistas.
I now work on an Apple iPad which is much better than my Android pads. I wonder how you write, probably not at all but just speak. We can do that but in company I prefer to type it in. Many other things have changed for me. My husband has now retired and is home all day with me, I start my 9th decade next Wednesday, and I do everything I can to keep my brain working hard. We are constantly told to use it or lose it, so I use my iPad and the internet to stay up with the world and its happenings.
I also use it to study. If technonogy had been around in my youth I might have had a very different life.  The only trouble is that it changes again and again so quickly that it is difficult for older people to keep up. Today in the supermarket, my husband said, you could have swiped your card there. Oh for goodness sake, I've only just got used to it as it is now with a pin number.
Many older people have completely ignored the digital age, as its being called. Now they are being left behind as increasingly everything is worked by computer power. I have a friend who at 75 has just bought a laptop and a tablet but to be honest does not know one end from the other. I worry that if she starts doing her banking online she could be open to dire things happening. Its bad enough that crooks phone up the elderly and con them into giving them their bank details. Thousand stolen from them because they do not understand the digital age. Bastards! The govenment is trying to get these people to get with computers but how successful they will be I don't know. I was lucky to get a job on a hospital computer in the 1970s and been computer literate ever since, writing two published books on them and doing digital Art.

Nice to be back, thanks for reading this.

Back Again

I see I have not written anything since 2013! That is terrible and a shame. So much has happened since them. I am going to be 80 in three days time. We have just seen the 70th anniversary of VE day, the end of WWII. I now work on an Apple iPad and an iMac. Gone are Micrsoft Windows. And I am doing actual painting rather than virtual and this weekendI won a first prize for drawing. I am going to put this up on my other blog and then try to resume them - because they are worth it.