Demise of M&S Skegness

Sorry to see M&S is going from Skegness. It wasn't great but was neat and did the job for us. What is there in Skeggy now? Not much, to attract shoppers.
Holiday makers like some big name shopping but there's not much chance of that now.
What they need is an "Arndale Centre" - if they could get a shopping mall with some big stores and parking, access from the rear to keep traffic off the front - this would open up the high Street to be pedestrianised! They could redevelop the Hildreds and the car Park behind.
Oh well I can dream.

Broadband Woes

Todays event.
Went to a councillor having trouble connecting over his broadband.

PC had been in the Office - nothing wrong. SO arranged a visit. After diagnosing his Broadband line was indeed functioning correctly but was not verifying his username/password I called the ISP. After a 20minute hold they confirmed the line etc was fine. However the line was "blocked" due to dispute over a payment. So back to our accounts dept to sort that one out.

Hey ho.

Pensions Again

What a lot of twaddle being spoken about pensions. Its all basically the Governments efforts to cut spending and get us out of this mess.
What they are telling us is plausible, not a lie but its not true!!
It is this 1) pensions are in a state because Gordon Brown raided them when he was chancellor. That was your savings pot!!
2) Are any pension funds bankrupt - NO!!
What they are is not doing their sums properly. Its all to do with how the Actuaries tell them to FORECAST the future. No one knows what will happen do they.
Simple - people pay into a fund, they invest it, pensioners get a pension.
So as long as money coming in plus whats invested is more than they are paying out OK! but the rules need changing 'cos they have to forcast what they're going to pay out. If they change this to be more realistic then we'll all be better