JenCs world of nag

 There are calls for an inquiry into the governments handling of the Covid pandemic which will be a total waste of time and money.  Here's what I think. Go back to the quarantine of the cruise ship passengers right at the beginning of all this.  For once the government took the right course of action in doing this.  Unfortunately after that the inaction seemed to be the theme of the government.  All people coming from abroad, whatever nationality should have been made to quarantine from that moment on.  There was also a valid argument for closing our borders, remember how quickly Europe closed it's borders to travellers from the UK in December 2020?  It took literally hours from the government announcing they had found a new variant of the disease.  Why the hell can't we show the same speed?  Even today our borders are still open and more importantly unpoliced. Lockdown was a good idea, if only everyone had behaved responsibly, the thing was ...

 We watch a lot of football in our house simply because we like football though we don't support an particular team. I love the passing game, players moving the ball around the pitch is a joy to watch . Lately there are several things that have begun to annoy me.  The first thing is the way players spit all over the pitch, surely this isn't necessary/it doesn't happen in any other sport, rugby players don't do it.  Surely this is a health hazard just as much as is blood on a players shirt?  There is no need for it and it's a dirty habit which is a bad example to youngsters.  Then there is the histrionics when tackles are made, players go down as if they are badly injured when that is clearly not the case.  It seems to happen a lot more in the closing minutes of the game especially to a player on the leading side.  It's cheating plain and simple.  Another thing is picking up the ball to prevent the opposition from taking a free kick quickly, hand b...

 Last night while watching the advertisements during the half-time break in Sky's football coverage I noted how things have changed in the last year.  A year ago the non-white faces in advertisement probably represented the population as a whole.  Now we rarely see an advertisement without a black face in it. Mixed race couples abound as do same sex couples but that's another story.  I'm not saying we should only have white faces in advertisements but surely this is too much.  I remember how long it took to change the way women were portrayed in advertisements, more than a year!  Today we have a total dominance of one type of person and I for one would like to stop it and show advertisements which are representative of the whole population.  I live a few miles outside Manchester, a so-called melting pot of different races but walk around the area I live and a black face is a rare sight we have Chinese and Indian locals.  Let's get some sense of pr...

 I cannot understand the police reaction to Saturday's vigil for Sarah Everard, why was it so different from their action (or non action) during last years black lives matter protests and Liverpool fans rioting?  Both of these became violent yet the police paid scant attention to them.  Is is because women are a 'soft' target and do these actions represent the male attitude to women?  To say the police were heavy handed is to misunderstand the situation entirely, maybe the actions came from a sense of guilt. The police must share the blame for this woman's death.   This young woman was murdered by a serving police officer, the very person she should have been safe with.  It turns out that this man had 'flashed' at women while serving with the police but no action was taken.  If proper action had been taken against this man Sarah would still be alive.  Many criminology studies have shown the 'flashing' is very often a prelude to violent behavi...

 Last week my husband had his first covid vaccine after he was telephoned and given an appointment the next day.  He duly went and all was done in excellent timing.  However he has received a letter, three pages of A4 inviting him to arrange for an appointment for the vaccine he had a week ago.  Do they not keep proper records?  Is there no collaboration between the department sending out these letters and the one that records who has been vaccinated?  What a waste of money.  Worse than that, in my view at least, was the two pages devoted to the different languages you can ask for the letter to be sent to you, some of which I haven't even heard of.  Now it is my view that anyone living in this country should have the common sense and good grace to learn the language of the county where they are using the health and other public services.  I have travelled over Europe for holidays and have always tried to use the local language rather than exp...