Spooky Stuff

 Heres a Mumsie post , we are having a few problems Mumsie is collaring everybody who visits her and announcing that she wants to go home , someone seems to have been filling  her with the idea of how much cheaper it will be . Its costing £1700 a week for her care and those who visit her for the odd hour here and there think it would be cheaper at home . Shows how much they know about the cost of decent care , she would require 24/7 attendence , shes still very mobile and can be quite aggresive at times , she has hallicinations really scary screaming stuff , she has no concept of time so theres no sleepy time or feeding time , so the care would need to be very skilled and theres the fact that shes so paranoid that shes constantly accusing her carers of assaulting her and stealing from her .

Now for the spooky stuff daughter went to visit at the weekend and Mumsie was talking to the people she sees around her , whole one sided conversations but then she told my daughter that they were all dead and were waiting for her .  Now i come from a family of spiritualists my great grandmother was a medium and talked to all her three husbands as if they were in the room , my grandmother was a regular attender of the church and i grew up with this as did my mother who hated it and labelled it all a freak show . Now i have seen things all my life and i have a son and grandson who do . Does this mean we all have a mental illness ???? Or is the world of Spirit just a genetic reality for some people ? Gran used to tell me as a kid not to worry because spirit cant harm us and ive done the same with my son and grandson ...Bunch of weirdos arent we..lol

Gardeners Curse

 Well this year has been a stunning failure in the garden , what hasnt been eaten has just failed to thrive , i suppose with an indian summer i may yet get a few squash , my corn has just never grown its about a foot high and thats it , the potatoes are tiny and i need a pickaxe to get them out of the ground , runner beans lush covered in flowers but hardly any pollinated , onions just sat and sulked .  Leeks however look good the only things thriving are the weeds and ive never seen them look so colourful and varied . Broad beans were great but are done now . Fruit wise theres tons of apples tiny but tons , plums are very late and doutless the gales are threshing them into a pulp , i picked a load a couple of days ago with the intention of canning them but then found that all the lids are mouldy so im waiting for more , the joys of having to keep everything in a shipping container during the renovations .  This is the first year ever that the garden hasnt earned its keep , but hey ho that is the nature of gardening . But i have to say the cupboard is bare of its usual jars of winter food and all i have is half a dozen jars of fruit from last year . Not even a single tomato this year so i may have to make an effort and venture to Stickney to the Polish guy who brings a van full every week , then spend a week canning ..ho hum 

Shoppin

 Now that Mr Bah Humbug is mobile i took him with me to Sleaford for this weeks little expedition , hes quite enjoying his freedom though he does get a tad irate when he gets folks bipping at him as the crane delivers his buggy to the ground in a busy car park disabled space , sorry for the inconvenience folks ..lol But then again he does very easily go off like a bomb and threatening to rip someones wipers off  and ram them up their arse in a busy car park is a tad excessive . But the guy was shouting that he had the right to a disabled parking space and it wasnt for delivery vehicles. When he calmed down we went to the community pantry , got veg including a marrow, mine once again have been eaten , i think  i may have a muncjak visiting  the rabbit wire is all intact so its got to be something that can jump , winter project i think trying to fence even higher with a zilch budget and no help grrrrr.  Anyway we have found a few shops he doesnt demolish with his muscle spasms and dodgy driving , he wanted to go round iceland and hes loading up with all the stuff he loves that i dont often buy  we get to the till and hes spent £87 on a bag full the look on his face was brilliant he hasnt been food shopping since before covid he hasnt shut up about it since .  lol

 

Prepper Tale

 Thought this might give some folks a giggle , i listen and watch a fair few prepper and survivalist blogs , podcasts etc  and the more you watch them the more you realise that there are a few extremist nutters out there, along with folks who are just fascinated with the ways you can be prepared . Himself is into the radio and cb scene and you get a few of the more extreme nutters on there , so im sat reading as he listens and chitters to folks all over the world . Then he starts rolling around in fits of laughter and this would seem is the story . A notorious local prepper nutter has been burying caches for the event on local roundabouts (just why?)  he had used the usual blue barrels but had then encased them in big oil barrels , the local council is doing local road alterations at one of the local roundabouts . You guessed it they hit one of these big metal drums with a digger . They then have hysterics and ring the bomb squad thinking theyve found a WWII bomb , full circus time with evacuations etc . robots the works . Anyway they quickly sussed that it was an oil drum, panic over , carry on digging .  Meanwhile the nutjob in question is all over the airwaves going off his head about the Council infringing his human rights , hes going to sue etc etc etc . The trouble is Himself and his partners in crime are busy egging him on . They have even suggested digging his other  caches up and putting in ha ha letters or filling them with stuff like cuddly toys .  Me i just hope i have the comman sense to not hang round for Armageddon , would you want to be stuck with the Camo clad nutters who plan to be left?

Chaos

 So by now everybody in other countries thinks their are mass riots in the UK , well thats according to all the news anyway , but really theres an awful lot of protest marches going off peacefully . I watched the "riots" in Blackpool then i watched actual footage from people who live there and regularly you tube about the place . More police than thugs seemed to be the rule , so the coppers gained lots of overtime , the thugs didnt get the result they wanted and the Punks had a good weekend at their rally . What i did notice in more than one video was the same  man young and smartly dressed chucking bottles at both sides of the argument and the police , then melting away and reappearing at another group . The police seemed to be concentrating on circling the groups of idiots then taking loads of photos which they didnt like much . Knock on the door for them once things are calmer I would think . They always go on about Muslim no go areas but theres far more estates where the police need to turn up mob handed for a simple arrest . I cant say im much phased by this its quite obviously been orchestrated for someones agenda  theres a lot of suspects including the current government the Tories , Putin  etc etc etc  but if you lived during the Miners Strike in a steel town and witnessed the cavalry charges and the truncheon happy coppers first hand this is nothing been made to look something by the media . There were more news crews than rioters at these happenings 

Stating to feel a Bit Monty Python , The Three Yorkshire Men ....Call that a riot ? 

Transport

 Well it would seem that our new rulers are continuing on with there plan to make PIP a voucher scheme , I have read some of the proposals most of the ideas floated are idiotic , some are good but the fact is it was originally floated by the Tories as a way of robbing the benefit back to the benefit of their donors . The problem with a voucher system is disabilities will never be a one size fits all situation . Currently theyve screwed the Motability system into the ground , the vehicles on offer are all electric the benefit wont cover even remotely the lease hire for the vehicles , theyre all huge vehicles as well . We bought a new to us van recently, hes saved ages for it , its a specific model that he knew could be fitted with a wheelchair hoist , to have a new hoist fitted would have cost well over 5k . Over the course of a few months he has bought all the bits needed from here there and everywhere and because he knows what hes doing but is physically incapable of doing it , he has begged hassled and annoyed every family member and friend into doing bits on it . Its brilliant it can lift his chariot and the wheelchair without dismantling them . All with change from 1k .  The proplem i see with the new voucher system is that it will make disability totally unaffordable for many . I know those who have to use taxis all the time because they cant drive , what use is that if you have no taxis ?  We got told he should use the Call Connect bus service but its not suitable for his particular disabilities. Had to laugh hes supposed to be able to get disabled road tax reduction but he cant get it because he has a van . Plus if your using the disabled tax scheme your vehicle insurers will likely double or treble your insurance . If the benefit is paid as cash it allows each individual disibility to cater to its needs and they are widely variable.