Sunday & Monday 18/19th January- Basically a quiet couple of days

The two days of Sunday and Monday pretty much rolled into one when you consider what we did which was not too much.

The weather has been a little unkind with it being quite windy with occasional sun and the temperature not really warm or cold. So apart from the usual walks along the beach and watching the tourists arrive for their morning coffee breaks at the Taipa Resort and also the Taipa Bakery we have just taken it easy, having said that, we did do a little gardening by removing some of the overgrown plant life from the driveway entrance, as it was beginning to impede our access to and from the garage.

We did some shopping and also finalised our Hotel in Wellington as we remembered that the Rugby Sevens are due to take place a few days after we are there and therefore hotels were getting pretty much booked up. By contrast, Hotels in Christchurch seem to have plenty of room and so we will leave booking there until later when the prices drop some more.

The crowds that previously came to the beach have now all but disappeared and life is slowing down again. We watched the local council men taking a break by standing in the sea for some fishing before going on to finish up some long overdue work.

By following the UK newspapers the country seems to be broke and they keep blaming this on a global problem. It know appears that UK banks have lent as much as 80 per cent of their total cash to foreigners and foreign institutions thus exposing the UK to much higher risk than lending it to a young couple who need a house in England.

The Government is now blaming the banks for their stupid mistakes in lending out money on a risky basis and then proceeds to follow their example by lending even more money to the Banks. If they had given all this money to me I would have ensured that it was well spent.

In the meantime all of the Bank Management staff that had allowed this bad practise to happen have got away ‘Scot free’ so where is the justice in that. I wish that we had a ‘Scot free’ government as I bet an English only government would not have bailed out BOS and RBS. Let’s rebuild Hadrian’s wall I say or charge toll fees from those Scots crossing the border on the motorway. Trouble is they have oil and natural gas and of course Whisky so perhaps forget the wall.