The Hodge Blog

I seem to be apologising more for being late posting recently than anything else. Today’s excuse is that I was on the second day of a course and actually had homework. It was fun though. Hopefully it will help form our strategy further and should give some good results for us in a different direction.

Today, as I am BBA, it is my job to announce the Birthday of Mrs Blakeley (senior). Nick and Barbara are away so I say…Happy Birthday Margaret.

I am told that I have spelt new baby Jaden’s name incorrectly. Well, that is correctly, but I was just following grumpy grampy ‘thirsty’ who had sent me a text with the previous spelling, so it really wasn’t my fault.

Was away overnight and I found tow things in the hotel that really made me chuckle. The first one was in the wardrobe in my room. As with a lot of hotels around the world, it had a small safe with electronic keypad. These are great for passports, money, etc, but only in the UK does health and safety dictate it should have a sticker on it as you see in the picture! How would you suffocate in there? As you can see by the other picture, which hopefully scales it, you would hardly be able to get a cat’s head in it, let alone any human however small. Even if you put a mouse in, there were drill holes in the back which meant it was very well ventilated thank you.(Click to enlarge).

The second thing. Which is shown below, is the difference between the way the Government sees stuff at the minute and the private sector. the latter has seen many job losses and changes. The former has seen nothing of this and the money just keeps flowing out. I was a recipient as the course was Government run, but this shows the difference. Government afternoon breaks had afternoon cream teas with Cornish Clotted Cream teas where Boots, the UK chemist chain had a few chocolate bars. Go figure taxpayer! (Click to enlarge)

Private Sector	Public Sector

On this day in history and last year…

Weather = It been persisting down.

Mood meter = Home again and so is Lindsay!