Anyone else been snared by Amazon?

Has
anyone else been snared by Amazon? I mean bought something without realising it until it arrives? I have. I protest i did not knowingly order it. I have no idea how it happened. Yes we use Amazon to buy things especially this time of year. Its easy but something went wrong. It is definitely too easy. They have you logged in and track your browsing hence the popups inviting you to buy.
OneClick is my Nemesis. Seems even if you disable it on PC/LAPTOP you can't disable it on Kindle. I was browsing on my wife`s
Kindle and bought something .  Honest i didn't - fat fingers. That OneClick is too close to the AddtoBasket/buy button. DOH!
Watch your email because once they've Despatched you can't cancel. So not like me and see the "despatched " email - too late. It arrives and you've to send it back, less postage.
Be Warned.
I've now removed my credit card details so if i can't pay - no  buy.

Why Bother Having Children?

Why Bother Having Children?

Why do so many parents have children then as soon as they can shove them in a Nursery. then they go to school till their 18 then hopefully start work/leave home? Where are the family values etc of raising a family?
I despair.
To me this is the root of ALL society's problems now. We have no Family unit, we don't "care" for each other. We are isolated, just me, me, me. Parents spend all their time on iPADs or phones, I know a teacher who had to ask a parent at parent's evening to "stop using the phone" (she was texting) while he was talking about her daughter.She gave him mouth full of abuse and left.

Money isn't everything, I know its important and essential to a good healthy life but what's wrong with prioritising your Children first? We did. Sacrifice when they're young and teach them your values etc. the benefits will come later.

Look at this letter written to BBC news , highlighted by MHMT

Dear Sir/Madam, I have been married for nearly 18 years and we have 3 children aged 13, 11 and 9. When we got married we bought our house with the intention that we would be able to pay the mortgage on one salary so that I wouldn't have to work if we had children. I do work, thankfully I managed to secure a permanent part time job as a Community Paediatrician in my local hospital. I chose not to continue my training to become a consultant as the hours I would have had to work would have meant barely seeing my children!
My children did attend childcare when they were pre school age - for up to 2 days a week which they loved but those hours were more than enough and they were exhausted after those days!
As they have got older and attended school I have been very fortunate to be able to work fairly flexibly and have my mum nearby to do school pick ups if I can't.
As my children have got older they need me more rather than less and I tend to come home from work earlier than I did when they were younger. If my job had not been so flexible and I had felt that it was impacting on my children I would have given it up. Money would have been tight but we would have managed.
I certainly would not ever consider more childcare regardless of how cheap or expensive it might be. My children need me.
I spend my days at work trying to pick up the pieces for children from chaotic broken homes and also from middle class homes where children never see their parents apart from the weekends!

Obviously some people have to work to make ends meet and not all children suffer negative effects of long hours of childcare. But why as a society can we not make it easier for parents to care for their own children instead of forcing them into the workplace and taking even more parents away from their children to care for other people's children!!

Let's think about what children need, not what the economy needs or what parents need! Our children are the economy and the society of the future so their needs are what is really important!

Thank you to the author of this letter from MAHM. Let's hope someone listens somewhere!

BBC losing sight of its responsibilities?

Anyone else been upset by the BBC this week ?
Last week as laudable as it was and professionally produced, good BBC  drama,  "Passing Bells" about WW 1 was NOT suitable viewing for 7pm. Young children could be watching. Also the 6pm news has featured a lot about the Ebola crisis and Syria, showing some distressing scenes, even bodies, definitely NOT suitable for young children. The BBC should be more responsible. Why is there no protests, is it just me?

Living Wage increase good

I think they should increase the Living Wage, but will people get it?

When folk on benefits can get over £25000 it doesn't seen fair.

To me simple answer  - TAX ALL BENEFITS

This way we're all equal. Those on low wages get benefits and pay tax why not those just on benefits? Only exception should be those benefits that are for disability. then when they go back to work they can't claim that "its not worth it" - after deductions they're worse off.

I'd also ensure that unused Tax allowances can be rolled up say over three years so that when they do go back to work they can pay less tax if they're on low wages. Some Tax allowances are rolled up over several years like Capital gains tax on properties so why not personal allowances?

Only thing is David sCameron - where is the promised Married Person's allowance?

Out of Afghanistan but terror reigns

Hoorah for getting our troops out but have we defeated terrism? NO.
The Afghan peasants still grow poppies for us to get heroin. all the misery, crime and death it wreaks here everyday. What are we doing? Not much.
We should have spent that £35b on fighting drugs. Pay the Afghan peasants to grow cabbages instead, anything to stop the drugs.
How it many people die every week from drug related causes? 28. This equates to a 7/7 style attack every 2 weeks. If so think about the reaction to that. no expense spared to catch the terrorists but as they are spread out there is little action. But how can i say it Drug dealers are terrorists by proxy. Think of all the crime that is drug related not to mention lives blighted by it.Why do the Taliban let people grow poppies and make opium then send it here? They are just surely poisoning our society from within.
Why aren't we fighting this Terrorism lie we put troops in Afghanistan ?

Shame - Scott out. Hoorah for Zoe

Hoorah for Zoe. She looked a little nervous at first but then a rousing performance.

Zoe scores 10

Claudia - 1

Scott is out, why did Miss Piggy win? - she hid her feet under a flowing white dress and "smoke" so how did the Judges know she was dancing - she wasn't.

Scot DID dance - not very good but better than her.

Shame, why are they so predudiced - I was warming to Scott, he tries.

Ann Maguire killed by psycho pupil.

I hope now the (Will Cornick) idiot has been sentenced to life the school/Local authority are prosecuted by the HSE for failing their duty to protect her.

I know things can never be totally predicted but surly to bring into school a big carving knife is totally reckless - yes the school must stop this - use scanners if necessary - a teacher's life is priceless for a little inconvenience.

Looking at what was put on Facebook etc. I can't believe there were no signs of his mental state and they should have dealt with it. 

Maybe a big court case could save future lives?