22 November
We have Kile for the week again. His mum phoned yesterday to ask us to have him over night because he had his young carers club on last night. Jan went out and picked him up from school because of the rain yesterday and even the short walk from school to the car was enough to soak him through. It then came out that he wanted to stay with us for the whole week – and that’s what is happening. However, when I got up this morning I found here in the living room, not at school where he should be; apparently, he said he was feeling sick this morning. He’s in for a boring morning now though.
And didn’t it just rain yesterday! Various spots here in Dorktown regularly food every time it rains hard, Bond Gate and the corner of Queens Road and Edward Street being just two of them. Remedial work over the years has ensured it doesn’t hand about for days as it used to but it still floods but it doesn’t take long to drain away now. There are areas of the Midlands that haven’t got over the flooding from this time last year, and by the, look of things, they have been hit yet again. The main problem there is the slowness of insurance companies in paying out. One lady hit last year was saying that she had been hit before and they had paid out but then removed flood damage from her cover without telling her, she paid up and found out last years she wasn’t covered. That sort of silly game needs to be sorted out, and quickly!
But did you see those silly prats driving through standing water? Some cars were already stuck and yet others tried to go through. Those are the prats that insurance companies should be refusing to pay up for. How much will premiums rise because of them? And they will go up my friends, be assured of that. Midlands Today showed a hire van stuck on deep water and the owner turned up and he wasn’t at all happy about it. I have a feeling the driver will have a bill to pay for that one. ‘Tufki luksi,’ as the say in Russia – or wherever.
Dire warnings are about mortgages going up through the roof and yet another financial crash, at least the Labour party won’t be blamed for this one. But who is to blame then? I’ve noticed that there’s an increase in ads for credit cards and loans on the telly just lately. The last time there were as many, indeed a lot more than now, was before the crash a few years ago. That one was caused by greedy bakers out to make as much money as they could. Has the same happened again I wonder? Nothing was done about the causes of the last one, so no lessons have been learned, so perhaps the bankers have been playing silly-sods again. One thing that a new financial crash will show is that the current austerity measures have not helped in the least. But will the Tories listen this time? Don’t hold your breath!
Today’s photo is another from Brum …
Today’s funny come from our friendly Sage …
An airplane
was about to crash. There were 4 passengers on board, but only 3 parachutes. The 1st passenger said, 'I am Steph Curry, the
best NBA basketball player. The Warriors and my millions of fans need me, and I
can't afford to die.' So he took the 1st pack and left the plane.
The 2nd
passenger, Donald Trump, said, 'I am the newly-elected US President, and I am
the smartest President in American history, so my people don't want me to
die.' He took the 2nd pack and jumped out of the plane.
The 3rd
passenger, the Pope, said to the 4th passenger, a 10-year-old schoolboy, 'My
son, I am old and don't have many years left, you have more years ahead so I
will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute.'
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