Saturday 12 February 2011

Shooting yourself in the foot.

Cameron seems to be madly engaged in an operation to demonstrate how quickly his big society idea can implode. But was it ever meant to work?



Did not the bank crash come at a highly useful time. All that public money soaked up in capitalism with an excuse to take an axe to the state under the guise of deficit reduction. One year in and how well have they done at reducing the deficit?


But of course it ends not there, the cornerstone of the big society was the voluntary sector that is waking up late in the day to the fact that the proposal is to simply abandon the poor and sick and disabled to their fate.

Rant over, the student is essaying now, an essay on social work law.

To divert ourselves, 

We have been axing, faced with a weather forecast that had been sort of wild we thought best get some wood in and then, in a trice the met office changed it's mind. The weather is set fairer.

It means that the last of the huge pile of wood  we stacked  in the cottage last year is processed fully and we will have an empty space to start filling when we are ready.

There is no shortage though, the garage is still packed to the ceiling and we have barely touched a quarter of whats in there.

We have about 10 tones of slab wood in stacks left to process, which means we will be stocking up on wood again soon. So that stuff might even have been drying for  3 years before we get to it.

I passed the wood yard yesterday and it looked full and he looked hopeful. e

Time I called in I think. Another 10 tons in stock would be good.

Especially as she plans to move her garden again and the plans for a greenhouse are being refined.

She needs some proper sleepers to anchor the whole structure down and make it a lot more substantial. 

The steelwork has survived the winter but the plastic covers have done less well.

So immediate garden plans are for a lot of willow to go in and create windbreaks with a relocation of the tunnel to somewhere slightly less windy.

It's also the field which features the fan soak away for the septic tank so things that grow down there tend to do well for some reason.....

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