Well, after 2 years blogging on this site I have decided not to renew my domain and hosting. They expire at the start of February and the reasons are many but mainly the following.
1. The reason I started this blog was to interact with fellow Masterclass students and hopefully pick up some knowledge in the process. This happened initially when everyone was enthusiastic and had expectations of making money out of internet marketing but unfortunately many realised this just wasn’t going to happen for them and their enthusiasm waned. Their posts, which once were regular, dropped off and many hadn’t posted for months. A lot of the people I shared comments with are no longer on the scene and to be truthful most of the remainder are posting on subjects that I have no interest in.
White minorities still trying to have English recognised as UK’s third language.
Children from two-parent heterosexual families bullied in schools for being ‘different’. Tolerance urged.
Gay Marriages now overtake heterosexual marriages as preferred ‘lifestyle’ choice.
Manchester schoolgirl expelled for not wearing Burka: Being a Christian is no excuse says school. Sharia law must be enforced.
Britain now has ten Universities of Political Correctness. Professor Goldman of the London School of Political Correctness says there is still a long way to go in the fight to stop people saying what they think.
First of all if a verbal assault on religion offends you please don’t watch the video. I wouldn’t deny anyone their right to believe in whatever they choose. Personally I agree with every word spoken in this gem from Pat Condell.
In January I set a target for the end of September for the completion of a project I had started work on. However targets and actually accomplishing them are two different things. One of the benefits of ageing and having retired is that I am not unduly worried about it, but I do realise how difficult meeting targets must be for people in full time occupations who are trying to progress an online business.
I am way behind schedule for my new project ‘Walks In Tameside’. Originally I thought it would include a maximum of 25 walks but some intensive research on maps means I am now up to 37 walks and hoping to make it a round 40 before it’s completed.
On the first day, she sadly packed her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.
On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.
On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining-room table. By candle-light; she put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimps, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of champagne.
When she’d finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimps dipped in caviar into the hollow center of the curtain rods.
My all time favourite jazz pianist is Teddy Wilson. Theodore Shaw ‘Teddy’ Wilson was born in Austin, Texas in 1912, he had a sophisticated, elegant style of piano playing and played with some of the greatest musicians and singers of the age.
He made some of the best jazz numbers ever recorded with such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman. Here is an interesting video from the TV series ‘Ken Burns Jazz’ that tells of the racial predujice of an age gone by and how supreme talent won the day.
With so many graduates now employed in mundane, minimum wage jobs, or even unemployed with no prospect of work ahead, is it time for a re-think on the merits of 3 years further education at university and graduating with a mountain of debt?
Some of the most successful people I know have never seen the inside of a university or further education college.
In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on whiskey. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas ):
“If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.
Further to my post on Broken Britain? I came across a video by Pat Condell in which he sums up the problems and how we fail to address them.
Now this guy would put the Great back into Britain. I have seen quite a few of his videos and he always hits the point, talks common sense and ridicules the PC brigade which I am fully in agreement with. His comments on the video below are spot on.
It’s Only A Matter Of Time!
