Alan triangle

I am a boat heading for placid waters and my placid waters are constructive. I create small media beacons that float out onto the public domain for all in the world to see.

I like to think that my creations are like a gentle stream that is diluting all the poisonous things in this world. The news articles that make people angry, the violent videos and the dirty imagery. At the same time balancing out my triangle, the code I follow for long term prosperity. Work, trade and creativity.

Last week I created a short documentary video entirely on my phone. The microphone on my phone is very bad so I used an app to amplify the sound. The video wasn't quite as good as I wanted it to be but it I am making progress.

Very slowly and gently my creations are gathering their own gravity and pulling in people from around the world to a chilled gentle world of a boat heading for placid waters.

Referendum tosh

If there was a referendum to choose whether we electrify the existing railways or build a high speed railway to the west country, I wouldn't respect it. I would think that what ever I choose, parliament will do what it wants.

If I choose to electrify the existing networks, the wife of the diesel engine corporation's director would take the government to court for neglecting the Cornish and the MPs that want more high speed tracks built would try to block any  electrification contracts being signed.

If I chose to build the high speed railway then the Welsh would claim that is not fair because they are more important than the Cornish and people of Devon yet don't have a high speed railway. Anyway, there would be a deadlock and some MPs would try to make a second referendum because they think I didn't know what I was doing the first time. Even if they promise to implement my vote in writing.

I will never respect a referendum again. But I will vote anyway because I value my insight. I will stand and deliver and laugh at any promises concerning my verdict and walk away to continue my daily toils.

Thomas cooked

I considered myself to be a doubting Thomas as I aged but there is no doubt now that Thomas Cook holiday company is gone.

I put some of the blame on the internet and some on poor investment decisions made by the company. The internet certainly played a big role in the destruction of the company.

Blockbuster video rental company went bankrupt because of internet video streaming. When you think about it, you can say that machines are already putting thousands of people out of work throughout the world. Machines create jobs but I think they destroy more jobs than they create. I see many politicians claiming the opposite but they are out of touch with the community. They are good at promoting themselves but fail help anyone.

There are still politicians in my country that don't even think there is a housing crisis. They have 10 houses and a magic bank account in a tax haven with 10 million in it so their privilege blinds them from seeing thousands of people living in their cars and families being buried in debt. I often wonder why they are getting elected? I think people should follow their local mp on Twitter and observe what they are saying. If there is a problem in your community then don't elect someone that doesn't even acknowledge the problem exists.

Frosty aspiration

Every day I look out for the morning frost and I see if it will come at least once before the clocks go backwards on Sunday the 27th of October. I sense that the frost is nearby but doesn't quite reach the ground yet, perhaps it hangs in the air half a kilometer above the ground. Every night at about 3 am, it gets closer and closer to ground level.

The only sighns  I have that it is near is the condensation that comes on all the metallic surfaces; a fine spray of water droplets.

Anyway, it is true Autumn now, the day and night are nearly equal in length and will be so on the 27 of October and the trees are starting to sense the frost is near, they are putting their leaves out of service in a brown and yellow display.

If you are reading this blog in descending order then you probably know better than me if the morning frost came before daylight saving in 2019 in the UK. To me that is comfort that global warming hasn't taken a deadly grip on our planet yet. Silly to many but logical to me.

Placid day

Jacob, my son. You were born in the middle of spring, in the middle of the day, in the middle of Buckinghamshire, with a middle name that means to be polite.

You are soon to be six months old. I still can't believe you are here with us. It hasn't sunk in that I am a Dad. You change a lot every 10 days. I try to imagine what you will be like when you can talk and play independently. It is hard to tell what a child will be like when they are an infant. When you reach that mile stone of being a toddler, I can observe and take note, perhaps then I will know you better.

The Abyss

When I was between the age of 5 and 10, I would look up at the night sky when I was in a big open space like a car park and feel afraid. The sky was a giant abyss that I didn't understand.

Well. The 20s decade is like that for me now. A dark unknown abyss. I have no idea what it will be like in the 20s. I see things happening now that makes me afraid but no one knows what will happen....

It approaches, a destiny that can't be seen and a destination to a strange place. A world that is out of sight and beyond awareness.

Brexit Truth

Back in 2016 in Britain, a lot of strange things were happening. In the spring of that year celebrities we're dying in large numbers, the weather was strange ; we were getting storms from the continent instead of ocean and we had a life changing referendum to choose our relationship with the EU.

Anyway..

I was already a Eurosceptic person long before the referendum, even in the previous decade when they were planning to launch the euro currency.  Not because of politicians or right wing media, no. I was a Eurosceptic because of my own observations.

I knew that the member states of the EU were all very different and big corporations take advantage of that and abuse it. I considered some of the member states to be tax Havens and saw how the multinational companies were placing their headquarters there and leaving ordinary people to pay more tax. I saw some member states with very low inflation so their work force would come here and lower the pressure of companies to raise their wages and then the government forced to raise taxes again because lower wages means less tax. I saw VAT tax grow to a staggering 20% because we can't afford to pay our civil servants.  I watched fishermen with small boats being told they could catch fish off the coast of Spain as if they could afford the diesel to get there and big trawlers taking all their fish stocks from the local coast line.

I won't go on... I will just say my vote had nothing to do with red buses or Nigel. I saw the BBC and celebrities condemn ordinary people throughout the country as mislead fools. But I was always truthful about my views long before 2016. I left my views in plain sight for all to see if they really wanted to. But no one wanted to listen. Now the politicians and media are upset.