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Thanks to Angus Cochrane and BBC News Online for the Headline.

I’m in hysterics about this, not that I care about the said Scottish Reform Leader’s Lord Offord. In his own word’s a self-made man, worked hard all his life as a banker, moving money here and there and employed loads of people who are now his target for voting for the wonderful Reform Party. Perhaps he should have given more of his ex-employees a pay rise. Perhaps the voting public are not immune to the treatment they got from “6 boat Malc” in the past.

The Greens say one house is enough for anyone, actually I’m inclined to agree with them on that. As for six boats and five cars, jeez I wouldn’t want to see Lord Offord’s back garden, I mean where does he store and more importantly maintain them. Of course he may or may not have “people who do for him and his family” and I suppose that is one form of employment.

And that my friends is his solution for Scotland. The STV Television Debate outlined his proposal, that what Scotland needed was more Lord Offord types and less normal jobs for people who couldn’t rise to the occasion as he has done of being so greedy and constantly worrying about what other people think of them and their possessions. ( Did you hear Mavis , he’s got another Lamborghini?).

I’m not a fan of TV Debate’s, they are just soundbites and the real work of Government is in the detail, but there is so much more to consider than individual success or appearances.

TV Debates are a listen don’t speak, attempt at polarising discussion and reducing it to inane entertainment. Lord Offord sounds a bit of a plonker , but he obviously doesn’t think he is with his houses, cars and boats.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thank You to Ivan Khomenko and United24Media for the Headline

In truth when I read this headline I thought World War Three had started. But no it’s a reallocation to a French Satellite Company Maia Space of contracts for sending satellites into space. The Russians have been excluded from working any further on these projects with the European Space Agency(ESA) because of their invasion of Ukraine.

However,it has all ended in a gentlemany fashion with any key Russian parts being extracted by the Russians and the structure which consisted of a 52 meter mobile service tower that had been part of the Soyuz launch infrastructure being demolished in a controlled explosion.

Kindly the other bits like the assembly and testing complex, railway lines ,liquid oxygen storage facilities and fueling system will be transferred to MaiaSpace. The plan is to reuse up to 80% of the existing infrastructure.

Seems cooperation and working together with the aim of pursuing a scientific goal still happens and will keep happening and all the noise about “ending civilisation’s” is just so much hot air.

Thanks to Marcus Boothe and BBC News Online for the Headline

The “Bristol Blue Glass ” Company has tragically decided that it will close.

Blue Glass as a product has a long history originating from Bristol and pioneered since the 1780’s by artisans , characterised by it’s intense blue colour it’s heyday was with aristocrats in the 18th century and the glass itself is created by adding cobalt oxide to lead crystal. It’s certainly a craft that we do not want to die. There has been a petition signed by 7000 people to try and keep the business going.

However, as the public statement by the business has said that they need to be able to run a manufacturing business and not support an expensive hobby which has no chance of giving those who operate and work in it a sustainable livelihood.

So there we go another layer of quality and expertise in craftsmanship is eroded. I note that the owners of Bristol Glass blame the current crisis in the Middle East and manufacturing expenses, but a bit like weaving and lacemaking, why lose the skills? We don’t want to see them in a museum.Make it a life business for people who want to learn and who want to know how to make something of quality.

We have lost so many skills, and yet we want people to live fulfilled lives and not be enslaved in monthly expenses that without good employment many cannot afford.

The politicians are media people who do not know how to “make” anything except “hot air”. They say they work hard , but they are lazy people who alienate others and who want “easy” money. This needs to stop. We want Blue Glass!

Namaste and Thank you for Reading.🙏