[little blue]

Had some news this week that has really put things into perspective ...

ok, the threat of losing one's job is not pleasant, but myself and my colleagues are lucky to be alive, and on the whole, in good health.
    

our thoughts are with the family of the young man we know who has tragically has his life cut short.
 

[manian]

 
Mx

[Hatty]

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[Roxy]

Its especially sad when its a young person.

Do hope you manage to keep your job.  I assume its to do with the cutbacks the council have to make?

[faith0504]

 

[Sandy]

Are you with the armed forces? So sad to see a young person taken when his life had barely started.

Sometimes it takes a great loss to find a great gain 

[doganjo]

I'm so sorry for your friend's family and friends, LB

[waterhouse]

My son was devastated by the death in a boating accident of his house sharer from University a couple of weeks ago.  A young man with everything in front of him killed in a genuine accident.  I hope his parents were consoled by the huge affection shown by his friends coming to the funeral from all over the world.

We brought our boys up to know about death: goldfish, hamsters, dogs and cats not to mention the sheep.  But it's a terrible shock all the same.

[little blue]

thanks all

I work in special education, can't really say more than that....
I am arranging a small tribute in the form of an animal sponsorship at a local zoological park which he loved, that we can keep up year on year, having raised some money already. 

[Sandy]

Cuts will be felt every where.....sad that the country got into this state so now every one pays the cost!!

[waterhouse]

Speaking as someone who knows where some of the bodies are buried I continue to be amazed that no-one has been arrested, charged and beaten unconscious in a police cell over the banking scandal.  And that includes the regulators who failed to regulate and the politicians who were too "prudent" to stop it while wasting the tax revenues, borrowing heavily and selling our future. 

And I'm staggered by the small number of honourable members who have been banged-up for expenses theft (note that "honourable" is a title not an adjective).  Given that theft is defined as dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it we still have a lot of MPs whose interpretation of honesty is out of kilter with the rest of the population.

But we aren't as ****ed up as Greece, Ireland, Italy etc. though the politicians are just as asinine as the cut us back into recession.

[bazzais]

If I were in parliament I stand up and mutter and make strange noises to concur your statement waterhouse. 

I agree with you totally.

little blue - yes we are lucky be alive and we best not forget it, it so so sad when people lose this feeling and have the 'need' to end it prematurely.

Baz