Hi Everyone
You know from my previous blogs that I love a bit of useless information. Now you might think that all this Rubbish is useless information but that is for you to decide. Anyway, the question is what is the connection between air fryers, gluten free bread, and vinyl records? The answer is that these items have been added to Britain's "basket of goods" used to calculate inflation. I can understand the inclusion of the air fryer as almost every Kitchen seems to have one and gluton free bread perhaps signals that we are taking diet more seriously but who would have thought that vinyl records would reemerge after being almost replaced by the CD. Vinyl has apparently not appeared on the list since 1994 illustrating that what goes around comes around. It looks as though that also applies to Donald and Joe. Does that mean that I will now be revisiting my collection of over 400 vinyl records instead of playing my CDs or streaming, whatever that is? Interestingly the items that these items have replaced in our basket of goods are popcorn, draught stout, and hand sanitiser. Now as I do not eat popcorn, drink draught stout or rarely use hand sanitiser, does that mean that my personal inflation rate will be going up or down? Answers on a slice of gluten free bread please.
This week a national newspaper awarded the title of the best place to live in the Midlands to a small town just outside our second city, Birmingham. As a result of the growing popularity of the town in the last few years house prices have increased rapidly. Now the award has not been given for its industry and commence or even that the roads are free of potholes, it has been given because its high street is full of vibrant coffee shops and small cafes mainly owned by local entrepreneurs. One cafe owner made an excellent point when he said that most of the staff working in those coffee shops and cafes are working for or just above the national living wage and therefore will have little or no chance of buying a property in the area. The good news is that the small town near to where we live has no chance of winning such an award as firstly the national newspaper has probably never been anywhere near it and secondly to make way for the vibrant coffee shops and cafes, they would have to close the charity shops, takeaway food shops, tattooists and Turkish barbers to make way for them and all you would achieve would be to replace one low paid economy with another low paid economy.
This week's headline said "How to get fitter without really Trying". I thought that might be worth a go so the first one I noted was "Turn up the tunes" advising that you clean the house while listening to your favourite music. Well, firstly I do not clean the house, at least that is what the Main Contractor tells me and my favourite music is far too good to be drowned out by a floor sweeper. Then it said "Sleep". Naturally, I was attracted to that idea until it said that you are allowed a short sleep between workouts which was not a word that I recognised. "Experiment with balance" next caught my attention suggesting cleaning my teeth while standing on one leg. Unfortunately banging my head on the toilet seat while squashing a tube of open toothpaste all over the Bathroom floor did not seem a very good idea to me. Finally, I found two things that I could cope with, "Don't do it every day" and "Just breathe". That made me feel much fitter.
Just a Thought:
My friend says that when he dies he wants his ashes put on a record player. it's his vinyl request.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly, how can you observe human nature and write a story.
When I feel like exercising, I just sit down until it goes away.
Brian
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