Back to normal blogging and a ‘jolly’!🤣

This morning, we had what we call a ‘jolly’…a trip to The Avon Mill Garden Centre, which is not far from Kingsbridge. Greeting us were these ‘corkers’!

 

It was lovely to have a browse, both outside and in.…after a cup of coffee in the cafe, of course. The cafe also sells all sorts of food gifts etc…

And then we had a wander around outside…

 

The main reason that I went there for was to look here, the Devon Artisan Hub. It’s a lovely shop full of locally made items and I like to find things that are unique and different to give at Christmas…

Beautiful, hand crafted, wooden items were on display…

Last year, I actually purchased one of these Christmas trees, made from old, local maps.

After browsing in the Devon Artisan Hub, we went into the gift shop…where Christmas seems to have well and truly taken over!

I don’t usually like to think about Christmas until 1st December but I do understand that businesses need to make as much money as they can! For me, though, it’s a tad too early!

However, they also have a good range of garden tools as well as other garden items…and plants..but I didn’t manage to take any photos of the plants, this time.

Our children

Our nation’s children are far more important than people realise! Of course, the Labour Party doesn’t understand this as it stupidly rules with a ‘politics of envy’, policy…nothing more!

All private schools are not Eton or Harrow! Many are much smaller concerns, actually. And all private school customers are not ultra rich! Many have worked extra hours, scrimped, saved and gone without themselves, in order to send their children to their chosen, private school, for whatever reason. And as many private schools have had ‘charitable status’, they have also been able to offer various facilities to those children who are less privileged. And that’s how it’s been …until now.

In its wisdom, the despicable, narrow minded, blinkered Labour Party has decided to impose a 20% VAT charge on private school fees. 

What Labour don’t really ‘get’ is that there are now many children whose parents simply can’t afford the rise in fees. Through no fault of their own, these children will be parted from their friends and everything that was secure for them in their world of education. And where are they likely to end up? 

There won’t be room in the state schools closest to them, even though the local authorities have to provide education for them. It could mean travelling some way, thus disrupting the family’s routine etc. And those children who have been fortunate enough to use the facilities at many private schools, will now find that avenue of pleasure has been taken away.

This govt couldn’t give a damn about the nation’s children!

And from where are they going to suddenly get a load of qualified teachers to work in the state schools? Where are they going to site the extra classrooms? As well as this, there is no rule re class sizes after KS1. In England and Wales, legislation sets out the class size for KS1 as 30 pupils per class but there’s no legislation for KS2 or for secondary pupils. 

It is said that 14,000 teachers, a day, are off work with sickness! How would they ever cope with more children in their classes?! The more who are off sick, the more we pay for supply teachers!

And what about this…

Private schools also employ NOT JUST teachers! There are many other jobs at private schools: groundsmen, gardeners, cooks and kitchen staff, handymen, cleaners, caretakers, administrators…and so on. Their jobs will be at risk, if private schools decide to close or make cuts. 

Did this useless govt think about that? OF COURSE NOT!

You cannot run a country on ‘ENVY’! 

Of course, we all know what’s coming next…there will be a plan to get rid of grammar schools, naturally.

As a long time, state school teacher, I was always proud of my profession and the state school system in which I worked. Yet, I am also all for grammar schools, private schools, technical schools ( which are sadly lacking nowadays) etc….

We shouldn’t  have a ‘one size fits all’ system for our children. Every child is different, with different needs, different skills, etc. And that is why govt ministers, ( many of which have had the privilege of a private school education!) who have no qualifications in Education, should not be allowed to meddle, wreck and ruin the schooling of our children! 

And so…

I wish every luck to those independent schools that are now getting together to take these clowns to court. As that is exactly what they are!

Our children deserve so much better!

Heaven help us!

( Blower, from The Daily Telegraph)

What a dreadful, narrow minded, anti growth budget! I despair!  A budget based on envy and nothing more. What a shower they are!

I wrote this in 2018:

Surely, the public sector can only exist if the private sector is able to support it? So a weakened private sector will, in effect, mean less taxes; how will the govt then raise money? Obviously it’ll have to borrow.

The chancellor has to manage the finances, exceedingly carefully. And I don’t think that many people ‘get’ this. There’s such a fine line in balancing the books and ensuring that the knock on effect from one decision that he makes, isn’t going to have an adverse affect on the next. God forbid if I was chancellor!

But the way I see it is that big business needs to succeed because of the jobs and income it provides and thus we need to embrace this and encourage entrepreneurs ( who, after all, do take risks). So a rich and prosperous business does mean that its workers enjoy success and, therefore, prosper.

The rich do not become rich at the expense of the poor. That is rubbish, even though some politicians expect you to believe it!  The rich become rich for a variety of reasons: they either take risks; they have good business brains; they’ve had the right ideas at the right time; they are canny, single minded and of course they they might have inherited money. Or it could be a combination of these things. And we all know that money generates money....that surely can only be a good thing ( as long as all of the rich do not become so p***** off with certain people’s attitudes toward them...and disappear abroad! )

Whatever the reason that people are rich, we need to cast off our envy and think a little more widely about this huge and complicated picture . Getting rid of our rich people or even taking too much from them in taxes and where will we be? Up the creek without a paddle, methinks. Govt borrowing will soar. We will all suffer as a result.’

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Heaven help us all! Show me a country where socialism / communism has succeeded!