Over-Heated and Ripped-off UK
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What are we like in the UK?…We have had two weeks of a heatwave …NOW they are issuing health warnings…”people could DIE!! In this unbearable heat!!!”….employees are threatening to walk out of the workplace if the temperature gets to 30 degrees………a month ago we were all complaining about the COLD and worrying about DROWNING with the floods…..I’m waiting for the “Drought Alert” which will happen any time now. I must say it certainly brings out some strange sights on the streets…not pretty ones.

Our fundraising organisation The Cheshire Cats gave £500 to a local kids charity and our “chairman” was invited by the charity to join them on their invite to Prince Charles’s house…This included a tour around the gardens and a two course meal….for which you had to pay 32 quid….this plus the train fare and suit hire obviously put him off…...reminded me of my friend Monty Lister being invited to the Queen’s garden party at the Palace…..it bucketed down so Liz and Phil vanished back indoors and left the 3000 guests to brave the blizzard in the Palace Grounds…before returning home on the train soaked to the skin….er…don’t think ...

The education system is being changed AGAIN by you-know-who…..11 year olds will now be graded form 1 – 6…and compared to other schoolkids around the country…can’t see the point…the teachers are saying that it will lower the kids confidence and the government are saying it gives the parents a better insight…I don’t know why the MP’s who have NEVER taught just leave it to the teachers who KNOW what they are doing.

There was a programme on the tele about being ripped off on foreign holidays….Car hire was one subject whereby you think you have paid in advance for a car but when you go to pick it up there are allsorts of added extras…ie no refund on returned petrol…extra for damage insurance etc…one woman paid an extra 120 euros for a weeks car hire. Also it went on about cruises…whereby when you buy a drink there is service charge and VAT added…and if you travel as a single person you get well and truly ripped off….but that is the way of the world…and what can you do?.....I recently bought some “Extra Long Life Batteries” from TESCOS..their own brand….lasted a couple of weeks in my radio…I shall be notifying the customer services and telling them where to stick their batteries very soon.

We have had the final rehearsal for the James Burton Show this weekend…This show is to celebrate 40 years since the “Aloha from Hawaii” which featured Elvis Presley….James backed Elvis on that show but he was also Ricky Nelson’s guitarist in the 50’s and early 60’s which is what I’ll be doing….I’m singing 5 Ricky Nelson hits and Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” as JB has also backed him….the band are really good and we all know each other so we should have a good time.