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CREATIVITY

I have never thought myself creative, I am sure I am not in an artistic way. I have zero skills. However creative thoughts count, I think?

Take my main interests.

Geography is everywhere is a trite comment but sums up the subject. It includes just about every other discipline.

Gardening copes with the weather, the soil, insects, etc. And the end result is in the eye of the observer. Japanese garden to wild meadow/

Cooking is similar. The set recipes are good, but tweaking the various constituents can lead to something nice or horrible!

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NHS PAYRISE AND BUDGET

Of course 1% is an insult, but these are hard times. A better way would have been a one off payment of £x thousand per person for those who put their lives at risk paid for by a cash grab on those who made money due to the pandemic.

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BUDGET

Basically a bit nondescript. Bit of a people pleaser with no real innovative ideas for getting the economy rolling again. Starmer was good in reply for a change.

In relation to climate change and the environment issues this budget, like so many before it, simply ignored them.

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BUDGET

I have probably spent the last 50 years demanding higher taxes for the rich. But that sounds jealous! So what I would now like to see is a chart showing how tax income relates to rising tax rates. I think I heard it correctly that as corporation tax was reduced, the tax income rose. If this is true, how does that apply to other taxes? We were told that raising top level taxes would have a negative impact on return (which is the reason for taxation in the first place – apart from tobacco and alcohol). But when some people have run away millions it is perhaps time to consider how they can get that amount of money in the first place.

So a budget which aims to make a more equable society would be nice!

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YOGURT

Basic recipe is 1 litre whole milk, 5tbs dried non-fat milk, 1 tbs live yogurt, sweetener as required and flavourings.

So this is the start of a list I intend to make, varying between savoury and sweet.

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ORANGES

OK, this is a bit random! But cutting up an orange yesterday I wondered why children and adults playing football always had a quarter of orange at half-time. Whilst certainly good for you I could not see a quarter of an orange doing much to enhance performance! The internet suggested that colds were more prevalent in winter, but I think the clue is more to do with the date of introduction – 1950’s – post-rationing? Even then it still seems a little strange? Why not a piece of chocolate or piece of a banana?

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BACK TO NORMAL INCOMPETENCE

There is a clue in the words ‘Test and trace’. To trace you need an address, my understanding was that you needed proof of id to get a test, but as this is run for profit I suppose that details like this do not matter! And surely the test that found the P1 variant is identifiable to a geographic area or even areas? If not, why not – again rather basic.

And then we have the usual bolting the door after the horse has bolted. The variant was detected in January and located to Brazil, but strict quarantine measures were not brought in until 15th Feb. Is there an inter-government game here to see who can make the most balls ups! I guess it makes Johnson look better to be surrounded by so many absolute numpties! To quote from the Observer ‘to call Williamson incompetent is to pay him a compliment’.