The detritus of a Button Monkey

I have finally pulled my finger out and started work again on my other site.  Slowly building up the content and also unwinding a bit by actually doing something I enjoy.  Hope this carries on.  Been doing several new things recently, a little bit here and a little bit there and have begin to notice the slow improvements.  Sometimes the scale of a task can be quite daunting, but doing a little bit is easy and quite soon, it ads up to a significant effort.

This year is going to be an interesting year in politics. The Republican party is currently camped in Iowa for the first caucuse. The ongoing Euro crisis still has no sign of ending. The austerity drive in the UK is really biting everywhere.

The Republican race is too early to judge who will go on to challenge President Obama. I think the big question the Republican party need to find an answer to is who should they appeal to? The Tea party seems to have a strangle hold over policy discussion in the Republican party. The stance of the Tea party risks alienating the rest of electorate. They need to find the common ground between appealing the large sections of the country without selling out their core vote. US politics tends to descend to issues where there is no middle ground. Abortion is always highlighted as one of these areas but you can also place Israel in this category. Presidential candidates are either pro Israel or seen as being soft on national security.

In Europe, I can’t see anything but pain in the next 12 months. I do expect Greece or another country to exit the Euro. The main reason for this is that I don’t think the tax payers of Europe are going to indefinitely dip into their own pockets to solve other peoples problems, especially when their own circumstances are fraught.

In the UK, I think the ongoing claim that the private sector will fill the gap in the jobs market due to public sector when have to be retracted as it is increasing looking stupid in the ever increasing unemployment figures.

Let’s see how long this new start lasts…

Life is supposed to be jolly at the moment. But it isn’t. Not saying it is really bad or anything. Just thought things were going to be better.

Off to Portchester Castle today. Looking forward to seeing it again. Haven’t been there since I was little.

Playing some rough and tumble with Version 2 and I bashed my head on his wooden stool. My Mum always told me that messing around will always end in tears. Never it would be mine at my age! Well, Version 2 gave the stool a smack so it should not happen again…

Various things have happened recently which I hope will motivate me to post a bit more. Stay tuned.

Left the hotel this morning and was surprised by the outside music. Is this music there for the smokers? Would someone really stay in a hotel just so they can smoke to naff music? Nice bed? Yes. Good view? Yes. Outside music? No, could not possibly stay there . . .

Spent 5 hours driving due to road closures today. Straight to bed for me. Glad the hotel room is nice. Time for sleep.

Been given a smoking room. And the aroma is less than pleasant.

And the restaurant service is less than stellar. I know what I want, no one seems interested in asking me what I want. Maybe I don’t understand the service industry. . .