We meet 6 times a year and it was nice to go out for lunch and just enjoy the company of some friendly people. Fascinating to be with people who are around 20 years older than us and listen to their trials and tribulations and realise that, I suppose, I'll be there soon! They are around my mother's age I'd guess, late 80s.
It was nice to get out and have a meal and a few zero alcohol Guinness which is possible one of the best low alcohol beers. I though this would be nice to do it a bit more regularly and I've already set up a meeting with an old colleague of mine in April that I am looking forward to immensely.
Here, in stupid land, we watch the government of the day continue to lie and weasel their way around things and all the time, we watch the utter levels of denial expressed by these people and the complete lack of disaster or risk planning available. The Chancellor was faced with GDP growth figures of 0.1% for January and with all the turmoil in the Middle East said something along the lines of "Our economic strategy is beginning to bear fruit" or some such other bollocks. Our heating oil has more than doubled in 2 weeks. That's doubled to way over £1.25 or more per litre, plus VAT at 5% and I paid close to 50p just a month or so ago! Petrol and Diesel too have risen and so there's going to be an impact to the economy, even I can tell you that LOL. We closed down most of our capabilities to be self sufficient in energy and as usual, the need to be seen to be cutting carbon (FFS) outweighs the safety and security of the very people who you are meant to keep safe and secure.
I suppose they don't see it coming and just keep bring in ideas that piss off the electorate, make it difficult for us to live or earn a living, our bills have doubled and if I fill up my heating tank today that will be half, YES half of my pension this month just for 500 litres of fuel. Actually it will be 2/3 rds of my pension just for heating in my house!
In other news, the gale force winds and the rain were horrendous yesertday and the phone went off at about 00:30 this morning. When I answered they were giving us advance notice that a power cut was imminent. It did come eventually some 30 minutes later. Luckily I have UPS sets for the computers and servers but the PC draws so much it switched off before I could, wake up, find a torch and struggle downstairs. The Servers though were fine so at least I didn't have the surge problems we had a year and a bit ago!
Coming to terms with being a pensioner and being retired is funny - come on it's only day 4 LOL. I have at least done something useful today with some finance spreadsheets and there's some Grand Prix action on TV later. No doubt I'll be gawking at our useless PM and wondering whether he is lying every odd or every even word?
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