IdleTymes Blog

Live to work, or work to live, that’s really what I’m talking about here. This blog is called the Idle Tymes – yet that is exactly what I don’t have a lot of at the moment – Idle times! In the last few years as I have become more and more embroiled and committed to work, and I’ve found myself with less and less leisure time. I’ve always been a believer in not living for the Friday evening. If you just live for the weekends, you find that your weekends go too quickly and you are left for five days waiting for the time to pass. This isn’t life! This isn’t the way to live.

I find myself more and more doing things online, and that isn’t just because I find it more convenient, it is because I don’t have time to go to the shops. I’m not talking about things that are cheaper and just as good through the internet, such as buying your car or horse insurance, I’m not talking about using internet banking to save a trip into the branch. I’m talking about not having time to go to the supermarket in order to buy food, so instead shopping at Tesco online and having things delivered. I’m talking about needing a new shirt, so just getting one online from the marks and spensers website, again to arrive through the post without me ever having tried it on. It’s even got to the stage where at work, we needed some large format printing done for a presentation we are giving next week, and we are just emailing across the completed image files to the company, who are delivering it directly to the venue the morning of the presentation because we don’t have time to look at print samples first.

It is a cliché that we are all part of a ‘time starved generation’ at the moment. I’ve always just ignored it, but I’m starting to think it’s true. Perhaps we need to reassess how we live and what we do with our time, because once it is gone, it doesn’t come back.

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Should Iraqi asylum seekers who have been refused asylum be sent home?  Probably.  I don’t have a problem with the Government sending out a letter that says their case has been reviewed and as they are not being granted refugee status they must leave the UK or risk losing housing or the benefits that are helping them to buy a house.  However Sky news is reporting that this letter of rejection is also asking the asylum seekers to sign a waiver that they agree to the UK Government taking no responsibility for what happens to them once they return home.  Isn’t that the Government saying that these people are probably at risk going back to Iraq – and that being the case, isn’t that the Government saying that the there is a reason why these people are here?  In which case, why are they being sent back? 

The fact that the Government is willing to return people to Iraq knowing that they’re in danger once they do so is shocking (not surprising, but shocking), but the fact that they want to be absolved of any guilt or responsibility should something happen to these people is disgusting.   Someone needs to think seriously about the implications of what they’re doing, and if they are going to send back rejected asylum seekers, they need to do so with absolute certainty that these people are not in danger – because if they were in danger of persecution, then they ought to have been granted their asylum status. 

On a more positive note. This is what I'm going to change next the mole removal pages

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Well not if it’s got any sense!  According to the BBC news website the National Trust is ready to “challenge new developments and intervene in planning inquiries, even if it is not directly involved with the land being targeted for development”. This is in response to Gordon Brown’s pledge of building 3 million new homes within the next 13 years. 

On one hand it could, and should, be argued that the UK has a housing shortage and too many people are in low quality housing or even living on the streets.  On the other hand, if we are already so short of houses, why are we continuing to allow such a high volume of immigrants into the country?  This isn’t about racism, or being pro-British, it’s merely commonsense!  We’re already over-populated and under-resourced.  There ought to be an annual quota that is able to be absorbed into our current social infrastructure rather than a seemingly endless flow of people into the country.  Has anyone in the government noticed that we’re living on an island with geographic limitations?  I know that we’re part of the EU, but that’s just paper and red tape, we’re not physically attached!

How much of this proposed housing will address the problems of those in need of low priced good quality homes, and how much of it is going to be priced above the wages of those who really need the homes?   I suspect there’ll be very little that will help the needs of Britain’s homeless!

Yes we need housing, but we need to look at creating a solution for those who desperately need it before implementing such a huge property building project, and we also need to ensure that legislation is passed to stop further overcrowding from an over abundance of immigrants making things worse than they already are.  Until then, the National Trust should continue to distrust and intervene in the government’s planning inquiries until the government is forced to look at the causes and solutions for the current housing crisis instead of fixing broken bones with Elastoplasts!

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Did Demi Moore have a facial as it was reported recently, or was it extensive plastic surgery?  More to the point, do we care?  She looks fabulous.  She’s in better shape than most of the women half of her age in a town where “fake” is in, and “real” is something you want to forget. 

Unlike some women, Demi admits to being under the plastic surgeon’s knife.  So what?  In an industry where looks count more than public conduct, decency and common sense, she’s doing what she has to do to keep on top of her game – and that’s where she is, right on top! 

Demi’s got >  It doesn’t matter when it comes to the young starlets so why should it matter for a woman who’s already a star? 

Seems to me there are almost as many double standards as there are double DUIs in this industry!

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