Reality Check

Another reply from the council explaining the hazards of storing paint and the expense of obtaining licenses to do so.  This stems from my helpful suggestion that any resident of Norwich wishing to dump paint should not be expected to drive a fourteen mile round trip to do so.   Maybe they thought I was asking them to provide storage for nuclear waste or something,  anyway the council cannot afford to set up a collection point in Norwich and that is that.   (I don’t think so!)  Time to push this one upward if you will pardon the expression.

This morning there was a red flash to my right as I made my way to the aviary, I don’t know where he came from but Ernie is back.  It has been three days since I have seen him and I ask him where he has been – instantly I hope no one can hear me talking to a cat and I start singing loudly in case any neighbours are listening.    Ernie  takes up his normal position by the parakeet shed and waits for a half chance to beat me into the flight.  It seems as if life has regained a comfortable equilibrium once more.

I read a few days ago that the government are thinking of penalising unemployed council tenants.  The implication was that if the tenant didn’t work they would forfeit their council house.  I gave this some thought as I went about my chores and wondered what would happen if the evicted tenant had a wife and two or three kids.   Would they be evicted as well?     Then what would happen – kids in care – wife re-housed, and the husband would be unemployed and walking the streets, but presumably still on benefit.   I thought about this for a long while  before I came to the conclusion that the best outcome from the taxpayer’s point of view would be  leave things as they are.  I guess the brains behind this idea had not really thought it through.  So why am I not surprised?

I also read that the wind turbines off Great Yarmouth will take about sixty five years to break even in terms of a financial payback.   It’s also a fair bet they will probably need replacing by then. We will need to recycle a hell of a lot of newspapers and jam jars  to pay for that lot.