4
February
Our car
has just been collected for its annual service, it will be back by 4pm. I’m not
sure how long we will keep it though. An item on the news last showed a young
woman who uses an adapted Motability lease car and has now it’s been taken off
her. Whoever is doing the reassessments have said that her disability is as bad
as before when she given the mobility component of DLA. That seems odd to me
seeing as she still can’t walk more than 20 metres, hasn’t grown in height, and
still has the disabling condition she had before when first awarded the
benefit.
The lass
works and needs her car to continue to work and will left more or less
housebound. This decision is going to be appealed where 50% of appeals are upheld.
That seems to indicate that there is a serious problem with the new assessments.
The muppet minister who is responsible for the disabled tried to paint a positive,
just as Daft Dave did the other day too. But basically, they just don’t give a
damn for the claimants. I would have hoped that Daft Dave would know better
seeing as he had a disabled son himself, but no, he too doesn’t care.
So where
does that leave the rest of us? Sitting at home wondering when we be next and
lose our car, that’s where! I’ve written about this before and I don’t really
wish to do so again. It’s like so many other issues where it is possible to say
there’s an element of ‘sumat for nowt’ on display. But even Mad Maggie didn’t
dare touch DLA except to increase payments. It struck me a few days ago that
the current lot were trying to out Thatcher Mad Maggie, and by the looks of it,
they have managed it, and it will get a whole lot worse before it gets any
better.
Last
night we sat and watched Edge of Tomorrow,
a Tom Cruise movie where he gets stuck in a time loop of dying and coming back.
Does the time loop plot sound familiar? It should do, there’s been more than
few of them. Dan Murry has played in two of them; another I can remember is
based on a train wreck that a man is sent back to time after time in an effort
to prevent it happening. Ground Hog Day
I’ve never really fancied simply because of Murry, I don’t like him at all. But
back to the one I started this paragraph with. I liked it but Jan wasn’t all
that fussed.
At each
re-birth the lead guy moves forward in some small way, he had to prevent it from
becoming boring. In the end though, he wins out. The acting was OK I suppose,
but there is one duff note in the dialogue though. A general orders the lead to
go into combat but in a later part of the film, supposedly only one day after
giving the order, the general says he’s surprised to see him back in his office
but as one his most decorated soldiers. But how could that happen and how could
decorations could be awarded before the battle actually happened? Nope, not
possible is it?
And
speaking of Cruise; another of his films is Jack
Reacher, (and I’ve just learned there is another Reacher film out too),
based on a book by Lee Child. In the Works a few weeks ago I found one of Child’s
books in their three for a fiver offer; now I’m just short of halfway through
it, and I have to admit that I’m enjoying it. I shall be on the lookout for
more as I go about. The book read immediately before the current Child was another
new writer for me, Stuart Neville, the book The
Twelve. I’ve done a review of it and posted it on the For Reading Addicts
Facebook group. Last night I actually found and bought the follow-up to it. It
sits on me kindle waiting to be read. Stuart Neville is worth giving a go my
friends.
The
sparky was due here by 8.30 we were told yesterday, yet here it is, 10am and he’s
still not here. Jan thinks we were told 1pm, so whatever time he was due I’ll
be pleased to see him so we can have a quiet afternoon, at least until Kile gets
here. Jan will take him home once the car is returned to us.
Workers
at work, it’s another photo subject folks, so here’s a window cleaner …
Today’s
funny … another groaner …
What
type of bird works on a building site?
A crane.
A crane.
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