Summary: We chatted first about Angie Mccartney's book launch at the Philharmonic in Liverpool which Don attended. T here has been a “victory” in the wonderful Lake District….the government wanted to build an underground nuclear waste dump near Bowness….which would create jobs etc….…HOWEVER the locals have gone on the march and reversed the decision and are celebrating….….someone suggested an ideal site for this project…just down the road from Prime Minister David Cameron’s house. Another Great British rip off has come to a head…petrol prices…..of the £1.37 per litre 80p goes to the government….which is approx 60%....seeing as oil has dropped in price this was put to the Office of Fair Trading…who found this was all in order….….greed greed. On the local scene this week I was at the traffic lights waiting for them to change when a car crashed into the back of me…fearing the worst I got out to be greeted by a very apologetic young chap…looked round the back expecting to find a huge dint and there wasn’t a mark…he had hit the towbar…..and hooked himself on to my car by his grill…I had to tow him out of the traffic then we had to jack his car up to get it off my towbar….as there was no damage and he was a nice guy I told him that as far as I was concerned just forget it………..the upshot of the whole thing was the young chap turned up on my doorstep with a bottle of wine and a bunch of flowers for my wife…it’s nice to be nice. I went out on my bike yesterday…I get the train into the gale force wind and return with it behind me…I came back along the embankment and the tide was in and giving it plenty…the sun was out and it was paradise......then as I was enjoying the ambience I thought I’ll give Vince a few interesting facts….if you are in your car and you want to know the wind direction…a standing seagull always faces directly into it….and while I’m on the subject of facts DID YOU KNOW (I didn’t) that in 2008 the £1 coin was made with a shield on the back….and every other coin (1p,2p,20p,50p) all have a piece of the same shield on their backs…so if you set them out it forms the shield on the back of the £1 coin
