I saw this on Facebook …

… and I though, aww, how sad …

Can’t be amazing to be the most powerful man in the world yet only to have 4 friends when Lee Evans has 12!

(Yes, before you comment, I do know what it really means but, fun all the same)

I saw this on Facebook …

… and I though, aww, how sad …

Can’t be amazing to be the most powerful man in the world yet only to have 4 friends when Lee Evans has 12!

(Yes, before you comment, I do know what it really means but, fun all the same)

Who made the clocks go faster?

Why are there never enough hours in the day?

I had stuff to do today and now ‘today’ was yesterday, indeed, yesterday was 2:24 minutes ago and, tomorrow, which is today, needs to start in about 5 hours.

On a different note, why are some people so damn stubborn?

Being ‘of an age’ shows me the mistakes that many young people don’t even know exist. How can someone so young comprehend time in any way which relates to them? I know I couldn’t when I was in my teens and early twenties even. If a person was more than 30 then, to be brutally honest, they just as well have been a different species. When a person is young like that, it’s near impossible to understand that someone over 30 used to be their age and do the same sort of thing, think the same sort of way. By the time they realise it, they have a list of mistakes to live with.

I am 47, I have two major regrets in my life. One I try to avoid every day of my life ever making again and that was saying I was too busy to help someone. The other I just have to live with. The woman who loved me, who raised me and was my life, died all on her own in a hospital bed 24 year ago last Saturday. Someone she loved should have been there. I don’t want to die on my own, it is the only fear I have of death.

Basically, what I am saying here is, no one should mess with their emotions, screw your body up if you have to but, never say no to people unless you have to. Money and other stuff cannot compare to the love of a good person. If we are loved we cannot be more wealthy.

Who made the clocks go faster?

Why are there never enough hours in the day?

I had stuff to do today and now ‘today’ was yesterday, indeed, yesterday was 2:24 minutes ago and, tomorrow, which is today, needs to start in about 5 hours.

On a different note, why are some people so damn stubborn?

Being ‘of an age’ shows me the mistakes that many young people don’t even know exist. How can someone so young comprehend time in any way which relates to them? I know I couldn’t when I was in my teens and early twenties even. If a person was more than 30 then, to be brutally honest, they just as well have been a different species. When a person is young like that, it’s near impossible to understand that someone over 30 used to be their age and do the same sort of thing, think the same sort of way. By the time they realise it, they have a list of mistakes to live with.

I am 47, I have two major regrets in my life. One I try to avoid every day of my life ever making again and that was saying I was too busy to help someone. The other I just have to live with. The woman who loved me, who raised me and was my life, died all on her own in a hospital bed 24 year ago last Saturday. Someone she loved should have been there. I don’t want to die on my own, it is the only fear I have of death.

Basically, what I am saying here is, no one should mess with their emotions, screw your body up if you have to but, never say no to people unless you have to. Money and other stuff cannot compare to the love of a good person. If we are loved we cannot be more wealthy.

Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s 40!

I have no idea why but that song went through my head loads yesterday and, for the first time in nearly quarter of a century, and just for the smallest amount of time, I heard my mum singing it. Of course, I can’t bring that memory back again now but it is nice to know it is there buried somewhere.

As for the title of the song, I guess I have been thinking loads about age recently, I think I always do when I hurt a lot

Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s 40!

I have no idea why but that song went through my head loads yesterday and, for the first time in nearly quarter of a century, and just for the smallest amount of time, I heard my mum singing it. Of course, I can’t bring that memory back again now but it is nice to know it is there buried somewhere.

As for the title of the song, I guess I have been thinking loads about age recently, I think I always do when I hurt a lot

Word Play

This is what social services have totally screwed over Zoey’s package with:

X 7 hours to be put aside / used for short breaks / days away
7 hours each week over the 20 weeks comes to a total of 140 hours for the year x £12 which equates to the sum of £1,680.00 This can be spent creatively but must meet Zoey’s needs/outcomes in term of developing independence and providing positive distance between Zoey and her family.

To my understanding it means that, each week of the 20 weeks Zoey is not at college, the wages of her PA can be used in a flexible fashion to best meet her requirements. In other words, they remain the wages of the PA but may, one week he works 20 hours meaning, the following week they have 36 hours to play with being 28+8 hours. No, apparently not. What they claim it means is, the first week he can work 20 hours but then, the cost of the second week which would be 28+8 would be, 28 hours in wages for the PA but those additional 8 hours should be converted into cash (£76.80) and cover expenses. The great delight of that is that, the PA still only does their standard hours but is, in theory at least, expected to work longer. It’s a little like you being contracted to work 35 hours a week but, when your company ask you to go for a weekend seminar, they also ask you to only work 20 hours for three weeks prior to the seminar so that the saving in your wage bill can be used for your expenses. Not only that, the time you are away you will only get your normal salary regardless of how much you work or how inconvenient it may be to you. Who the hell would agree to that? They are also not entirely clear how the figures add up because they still seem to think that it is quite reasonable that the PA would need to work additional hours yet, the core hours are totally taken up with other activities already. That means, the PA has a choice, get wages or have the expenses paid. Thing is, ‘I’ have to pay the expenses if social services don’t.

To make matters worse, they told me to employ a PA as of June 14th yet have not paid over any money to cover his wages for next week, they seriously expect me to find £700 to cover the costs and claim the money back when they eventually agree to pay up!

If this is not yet another example of Northampton Social Services cock up, I don’t know what is!

Word Play

This is what social services have totally screwed over Zoey’s package with:

X 7 hours to be put aside / used for short breaks / days away
7 hours each week over the 20 weeks comes to a total of 140 hours for the year x £12 which equates to the sum of £1,680.00 This can be spent creatively but must meet Zoey’s needs/outcomes in term of developing independence and providing positive distance between Zoey and her family.

To my understanding it means that, each week of the 20 weeks Zoey is not at college, the wages of her PA can be used in a flexible fashion to best meet her requirements. In other words, they remain the wages of the PA but may, one week he works 20 hours meaning, the following week they have 36 hours to play with being 28+8 hours. No, apparently not. What they claim it means is, the first week he can work 20 hours but then, the cost of the second week which would be 28+8 would be, 28 hours in wages for the PA but those additional 8 hours should be converted into cash (£76.80) and cover expenses. The great delight of that is that, the PA still only does their standard hours but is, in theory at least, expected to work longer. It’s a little like you being contracted to work 35 hours a week but, when your company ask you to go for a weekend seminar, they also ask you to only work 20 hours for three weeks prior to the seminar so that the saving in your wage bill can be used for your expenses. Not only that, the time you are away you will only get your normal salary regardless of how much you work or how inconvenient it may be to you. Who the hell would agree to that? They are also not entirely clear how the figures add up because they still seem to think that it is quite reasonable that the PA would need to work additional hours yet, the core hours are totally taken up with other activities already. That means, the PA has a choice, get wages or have the expenses paid. Thing is, ‘I’ have to pay the expenses if social services don’t.

To make matters worse, they told me to employ a PA as of June 14th yet have not paid over any money to cover his wages for next week, they seriously expect me to find £700 to cover the costs and claim the money back when they eventually agree to pay up!

If this is not yet another example of Northampton Social Services cock up, I don’t know what is!